Social Auxiliary Work at Anova Health Institute

Key duties and responsibilities:

Child and Adolescent Disclosure in the context of HIV

• Identify and offer disclosure counseling to Children and Adolescents living with HIV that still need disclosure.
• Identify and provide disclosure support to parents/caregivers that need support to disclose to their children/adolescents.

Support groups

• Facilitate support groups in facilities with emphasis on children and adolescents living with HIV.
• Facilitate caregiver support groups to promote adherence for peads and adolescents.

Facilitating referral of children and adolescents living with HIV to resource systems

• Design, maintain and distribute referral resource list to facilities.
• Ensure feedback between facilities and organisations of referred cases.

Adherence/Retention of children and adolescents

• Provide one-on-one counselling sessions to caregivers and children and adolescents living with HIV.
• Recruit 90% of unsuppressed and disengaged paediatrics and adolescents into Case Management and provide Monthly Adherence Counselling to peads and adolescent in Case Management.
  
  Capacity building
   
• Provide training and mentorship to facility and other staff on adherence and disclosure, support group facilitation, referral system and adherence.

Team management

• Support and oversee peer supporters in the project.

Minimum qualifications and experience:

• Matric/Grade 12 certificate
• Social Auxiliary Work certificate recognised by the Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA) and enrolled in Social Work degree.
• Must have at least 2-5 years’ experience working with PLHIV (people living with HIV).
• Training in KidzAlive, Integrated Access to Care and Treatment (I-ACT) and NAS (National Adherence Strategy) an advantage

Skills, competencies, and attributes:

• Must have experience working in HIV/AIDS programmes and supervision of staff.
• Good presentation and excellent communication skills and good report writing skills
• Strong interpersonal and team work skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel.

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Closing date: 27 June 2023