Social Auxiliary Worker (PAEDS) at Anova Health Institute

Job Description

• Anova is an NGO that empowers people and changes lives. Good health and quality of life is what motivates us to provide healthcare solutions and support for those who need it most.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying and managing, channelling clients to social workers, referring clients to resources and conveying information, offering psychosocial care and support services, conducting educational and prevention groups and carrying out home visits in paediatric, adolescents and young people living with HIV and their caregivers in City of Johannesburg district facilities

Key duties and responsibilities:

Child and Adolescent Disclosure in the context of HIV

• Identify and offer disclosure counselling 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 disenagaged peadiatrics 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 and 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.