Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 26 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Linkage Assistant (4)
AIDS Healthcare Foundation seeks to fill these vacancies in the following locations.

Facility Location
1. Chongwe Urban Clinic (Chongwe 1)
2. Northern Command Military Hospital (Ndola 1)
3. Chifundo Clinic (Lusaka 2)

Responsibilities:
The successful candidates will be required to perform the following responsibilities.
• Reach out to HIV positive clients and encourage them to come into care and monitor their linkage in medical care.
• Contact the recipients of care through phone calls, home visits and work with community structures to reach newly diagnosed clients that haven’t been linked to care and treatment.
• Regularly update the linkage database as and when there is some information change.
• Work with the facility team to identify, follow up and support clients that miss clinic appointments and those that disengage from care.
• Follow up on clients that cannot be reached on phone.
• Identify and document the issues that create barriers that make it difficult for clients to access the services.
• Reach out to partners of the clients that recently tested positive and invite them to the clinic for counselling and testing.
• Assist with reporting requirements including document data for reports preparing reports and submitting data to line managers.
• Ensure that more than 90% of newly tested positive are linked to care while and not less than 90% of all clients both new and old are retained to care.

Qualifications and Skills
• Full Grade 12 certificate with at least five credits in English and mathematics.
• Diploma in Psychosocial Counselling, Psychology, Social Work and or their equivalent.
• Minimum two (2) years’ experience in a similar position.
• Must have experience in working with people living with HIV and or chronic illnesses.
• Must have very good interpersonal skills as well as uphold high levels of confidentiality.
• Computer literate.
• A certificate in HIV care and Management will be an added advantage.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
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• Interested candidates meeting the above stated qualifications and attributes are required to submit their applications with the following documents: Curriculum Vitae with Three (3) traceable Referees, Academics and Professional Qualifications, Full Registration with relevant Professional Bodies where applicable to the address below by 27th September 2024.
• Applicants should provide valid phone numbers for easy communication. Applications should be clearly marked in the Email Subject line with the position being applied for as shown below.
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• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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