Job Title: Counsellor
Organization: Makerere University Joint AIDS Program
Duty Station: Jinja
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide Quality and Comprehensive Counselling Services to Clients, their partners and other family members
- Conduct assessment of Patients for HTS and provide necessary psychosocial care.
- Participate in the process of empowering patients with skills for self-reliance and making appropriate succession plans.
- Refer & link Clients to appropriate medical and psychosocial support.
- Conduct CMEs at the facility and community based on the assessed training needs.
- Provide technical support to facility and community volunteers on HIV/AIDS and TB awareness and document success stories.
- Conduct health education talks on HIV prevention and other HIV related issues.
- Conduct home visits to clients/patients and their family members.
- Offer Index client counselling & testing to house members of facility clients she/he is attached too.
- Support linkage Volunteers in linking clients to appropriate Health & Social Services.
- Counsel and initiate PrEP to HIV high risk populations at facilities and the communities served.
- Document key outputs in the relevant MOH data capture tools.
- Compile weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for the facilities supported on key HIV/AIDS and TB indicators.
- Participate in facility and program meetings as may be scheduled by the supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications
- Certificate in Nursing, Counselling from a recognized institution.
- At least 1-year experience in HIV counseling in a busy clinical setting.
- Willingness to work and live in rural areas is required.
- Confidentiality, team player and ability to empathize.
- Ability to communicate in the language dialects used in East Central region
Application Instructions
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their cover letters, a detailed curriculum vita and copies of relevant academic documents to the email below:
addressed to;
The Human Resource Manager, Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
The Application letter, CV and certificates be attached as one document; and should not exceed 5 MB.
Closing Date: 09th December 2022.
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