Recent Openings at Anova Health Institute

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Provide leadership and co-ordinate strategies to implement and to manage the Anova community-based response in the region/s:

• Targeted interventions
• Prevent new infections
• Reduce HIV morbidity and mortality through
• An improved and sustain HIV and TB care response in the community
• Implementation and scale up of targeted intervention in the sub-district to disrupt the HIV/TB epidemic in the communities:
• Establish and manage Anova community response/ action teams that focus direct service delivery

Advancing community health:

• Establish and mange Anova community support/ development teams that focus on technical support to community-oriented primary care (COPC)
• Support COPC by supporting the ward-based outreach teams
• Address bottlenecks and challenges with an emphasis on community based primary health care and create an environment that will lead to HIV epidemic control
• Co-ordinating and support to Anova’s sub-partners in the region:
• Takes responsibility for co-ordinating and overseeing activities of sub- partners in the regions
• Support contractual management of partners
• Identify needs, allocate resources in line with regional budget
• Monitor and evaluate performance of Anova partners
• Analyse and interpret health information at district / sub-structure level:
• Generate systematic information and use it to support implementation strategies
• Use data to separate implementation strategy failure from intervention failure
• Use data to link targeted intervention with contexts

Ensure effective and well-organized management structure for the community-based response in the province:

• Direct supervision to the community response teams and the community development teams
• Manage equipment and resources
• Relationship with community and stakeholders:
• Builds relationships with community structures, engages community, engages other stakeholders, inter-sectoral collaboration
• Support the relationships between FB and CS staff
• Learn and development:
• Identify knowledge and skill gaps
• Ensure ongoing training of PHC community-based teams

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• A qualified health care and allied professional or a master’s degree in social science (Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Demography),
• At least 5 years’ experience in working in the HIV field, preferably in the community.
• Experience of working in donor funded programmes
• Experience of implementing in health systems development and community development in or with the Department of Health
• Knowledge and experience of primary health care and COPC
• Knowledge and experience in providing HIV/TB services in and outside clinics.
• Experience in patient behaviour and social determents of health
• Knowledge of latest HIV/TB/PMTCT guidelines
• Knowledge of 909090 strategy and other Health related policies
• Computer Literate (MS Office package)

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Key duties and responsibilities:

• Lead defaulter tracing activities
• Conduct physical tracing
• Retention in care
• Clinical Services
• Offer other health related clinical screening services (Blood Pressure, Glucose, pregnancy etc.) to clients during all community outreach activities
• Assist with collection of blood samples:
• Ensure abnormal incidences are recorded, reported, and fast tracked for confirmation and linkage into care
• Assist with delivery of medicine at household
• Conduct health screening and testing services during campaigns, household visits and at facilities
• Active Linkage to Care
• Monitoring and reporting of outcomes
• Stakeholder engagement

Cross cutting activities:

• Promote HIV testing and screening for TB, STIs, NCDs, Cervical Cancer mental health for person.
• Assist with training and supervision of CHWs.
• Work with CHWs to continuously identify and map other community stakeholders providing various services to link household members for psychosocial and economic care
• Any other tasks as agreed with line manager.

Minimum qualifications and experience:

• Enrolled nursing certificate or relevant qualification
• Minimum of One year of work experience in nursing
• Experience of working within community health programs
• Up to date knowledge on South African HIV/TB programs, preferably in the public health sector
• Counselling experience, especially HIV.
• Up to date professional body registration
• Confidentiality and discretion
• Ability to work in a poorly resourced environment
• Ability to work weekends, as and when required

Essential Added Advantage:

• The ability to drive will be an added advantage.
• Experience in community outreach/WBCHOT services