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PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLOR |
John Snow Inc. |
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Posted 2019-03-01 00:40:56
John
Snow, Inc. (JSI) seeks highly qualified and accomplished public health leaders
and providers for the recently awarded United States Agency for International
Development (USAID)/PEPFAR-funded Supporting an AIDS-Free Era (SAFE) Project in
Zambia. The five-year project which will be led by JSI in partnership with Abt
Associates, mothers2mothers, and the Catholic Medical Mission Board, will work
to reduce HIV mortality, morbidity and transmission, while improving nutrition
outcomes and family planning integration in three provinces: Central,
Copperbelt, and North-Western. USAID/PEPFAR SAFE will work with the GRZ,
private sector and civil society institutions at the national, provincial, and
district level to increase access to ART for HIV positive adults and children,
reduce the incidence of new infections, improve Nutritional Assessment,
Counseling and Services (NACS) and family planning services, and increase the
capacity of local health institutions to better serve affected populations.
Position
Title: Professional Counsellor (x30)
Position Type: Consultancy
Duration: Six (06) months
Location: Selected SAFE Supported Health Facilities in Central, Copperbelt and
North – Western Provinces.
Summary:
Since
the late 1980s when Zambia was hit by the HIV epidemic, numerous factors have
influenced the quality of HIV-testing services, the feasibility and
acceptability of new HIV-testing approaches, and the access to HTS for various
community groups. As a result of the scale up of the HIV/AIDS response in
Zambia, a drastic reduction of the prevalence rate from 28% around 1980s to
12.9% in 2015 among the adults aged 15 – 49 years has been achieved. Despite
the alluded drastic reduction of the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS, Zambia still
has 30% plus people living with HIV in communities that are not aware of their
sero-status. According to Zambia Consolidated Guidelines 2018 for Prevention
and Treatment of HIV Treatment, embarking on universal routine HTS has been
highly recommended as entry point into the treatment cascade of the GRZ through
MOH. Above all, adoption of critical strategies such as Indexing and Partner
Notification Services (PNS) to complement conventional HIV Testing. The HIV
High Volume Health Facility Counsellor will ensure that all SAFE supported
Volunteers are daily supervised to test people with HIV, link all to ART,
indexing sexual partners/those exposed (babies, adolescent boys and girls, men
and women) and conduct PNS to all sexual partners/those exposed. Further,
Health Care Facility Psycho – Social Counsellor shall ensure that every
volunteer involved in HTS in all HIV High Volume SAFE supported Health
Facility is trained in the High yielding strategies and is implementing them
with intensive supportive supervision. The incumbent will report directly to
the SAFE Provincial HTS Coordinator.
Deliverables:
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Provide
daily intensive hands onsite technical supportive supervision to all SAFE
supported volunteers involved in HTS to ensure that they are implementing high
yielding strategies (i.e. indexing and PNS);
§
Ensure
that all SAFE supported volunteers in SAFE Health Facilities who are involved
in HTS are well trained in High HTS impact interventions;
§
Enforce
the rules of confidentiality in all HTS;
§
Ensure
that all clients who are tested HIV positive by volunteers in SAFE supported
Health Facilities and communities during PNS and targeted mobile community
based HTS are linked into ART programmes;
§
Facilitate
testing for children among mothers whose babies and children have been exposed
to HIV and ensure that all children who test HIV positive are put on treatment;
§
In
collaboration with DECs and volunteers, create Viral Load (VL) Analysis demand
among all ART clients that are due;
§
Submitting
daily High priority HTS impact interventions report to the Regional Clinical
Care Director through the Provincial HTS Coordinator;
§
Ensure
that HTS SOPs are available and strictly adhered to by all Health Facilities
staff and volunteers;
§
Ensure
integration of HTS into other health services including FP, MCH, TB, OPD,
Inpatients Departments, other specialized clinics such as Eye, blood banks;
Desirable
Competencies:
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Bachelor’s
Degree/Diploma in Eclectic Counselling, HIV/AIDS Management, Psycho – Social
Counselling, Social Sciences, Health, BSc Sociology & Gender Studies, or
equivalent will be added advantage;
§
Psycho
– Social Counselling Certificate from the Institutions the Zambia Counselling
Council (ZCC) and fully registered with current practicing license and not less
than 2-year work experience, knowledge and Skill on HIV Testing Services (HTS)
indexing and PNS inclusive;
§
Trainers
Certificate in HIV/AIDS Counselling
§
Experience
in providing intensive HTS supportive supervision;
§
Ability
to facilitate learning among volunteers involved in HTS and other HIV
prevention services;
§
Good
oral and documentation communication skills;
§
Computer
literate especially in word, excel and Power point and internet; and
§
People
centered change agent and unifying player in teams.
Mode
of Application:
Send
an application via email to saferecruitment@jsi.com. In the
subject line please indicate the position you are applying for; only those
applications that reference the position in the subject line will be reviewed.
Your application should consist of a cover letter and CV with three references
and full addresses and contact information.
Closing Date: Friday, 8 March, 2019
Please
note that you do not need to apply if you don’t meet the minimum requirements.
Only candidates meeting the minimum requirements will be contacted. If you have
not heard from us within 4 weeks after the closing date, kindly assume that
your application was not successful.
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Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer committed to workplace
diversity. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all
qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national
origin, ancestry, creed, religion, gender, disability, marital status, sexual
orientation, sexual preference, genetic information, political affiliation, or
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