Counselor Wanted at AHF
Responsibilities:
Counseling and Testing duties:
Provides quality provider initiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC), to all patients attending the clinic.
Records and documents client and counseling/testing information.
Encourages and supports patients that test positive, helping them to cope with diagnosis.
Participates in HIV testing program initiatives and campaigns.
Facilitates linkage between HIV diagnosis, care, support and treatment.
Facilitates group test counseling/ education in rapid testing campaigns to ensure maximum client coverage.
Facilitate education to people with promotion of consistent condom use.
Ongoing adherence counseling duties include:
Collaborate with other healthcare professionals (doctor, nurse, social worker, community health worker, home-based caregiver) in maintaining treatment protocol.
Provide direct and comprehensive primary, preventive, psychosocial care to patients.
Teach and counsel patients & family on disease prevention and staying healthy.
Assist patients with adherence counseling and document the session in counseling form.
Provide ongoing psychosocial counseling to clients attending the clinic.
Assist with the reading and interpretation of the CD4 count results to clients.
Maintain filing system for all client records including psychosocial forms, laboratory results and medical records.
Treatment literacy duties are:
Provide training to patients ready for ARV treatment and provide them with the clinical and laboratory goals of ARVs.
Identify clients who are defaulting and furnish team with relevant information for intervention.
General duties are:
Prepare monthly report on services rendered for submission to supervisor.
Participate in team de-briefing sessions.
Enter client visit details into the psychosocial relevant register.
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