SUMMARY:
A Peer Navigator: Project PrEP (Fixed Term Contract) vacancy is available at our Client, Wits Health Consortium’s Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) in Tshwane - Gauteng.
POSITION INFO:
Background
The Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) is a renowned African-led research institute that seeks solutions to Africa’s health challenges.
It is located within the University of the Witwatersrand and addresses some of the greatest public health concerns affecting our region, including HIV and its related problems, sexual and reproductive health, and vaccinology. This is done through pioneering, multi-disciplinary research; responsive technical support and innovation in health services; and evidence-based policy development and advocacy with national, regional, and global stakeholders.
The main purpose of the job
- To educate and engage with young people in communities within designated areas/districts to create demand through various means for the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) project
- Identify adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) most at risk facilitate and demonstrate available linkages to sexual reproductive health-related services (including PrEP) at fixed public health clinics and WRHI roving mobile units within that area
Location
- Maria Ranto Clinic, Tshwane
Key performance areas
- Implementing educational and social programmes geared towards education of Sexual and Reproductive Health. (i.e. HIV & AIDS, STI, Condom Usage, Family Planning, ARVs, Pap smear, Nutrition)
- Motivating young people to undertake regular HIV testing
- Educating young people about the option of self-screening
- Creating community awareness and demand for self-screening
- Demonstrate how to use an HIV self-screening kit and next steps if screen HIV positive or negative (including PREP and VMMC)
- Facilitate awareness and prevention conversations with young people in the facility
- Provide health talks on HIV and other Sexual Reproductive Health Issues (including PrEP)
- Participating in mobile clinic project activities and other related campaigns and events
- Work with colleagues to enhance project goals and outputs
- Identify the needs of young people and come up with strategies to address them
- Supply and distribute IEC materials (including self-screening) on a continuous basis to young people
- Build and maintain relationships with different stakeholders to enable the exchange of information to communities, STAR, and the mobile clinic services
- Work closely with the demand creation team to create demand (through different platforms – community events, radio shows, outreach programmes, etc. in different settings, promote health awareness talks and distribution of various IEC materials to communities to raise the profile of PrEP as part of comprehensive SRH services
- Encourage and stimulate full participation by young people to utilize the SRH services; with special attention to those who are usually forgotten, marginalized, and overlooked (e.g., disabled)
- Work closely with the mobile unit team to identify hot spots where a large number of young people are located and not able to access health care services (or where young people congregate)
- Identify and motivate potential leaders/organizers/NGO’s/FBOs/Businesses, area clinics within designated area/district on HIV self-testing and the WRHI mobile units that can be partnered with to refer/link AGYW to services
- Actively participate in a PrEP Ambassador group that is established with the purpose of continued and meaningful youth engagement
- Be willing to travel to attend and actively partake in the PrEP Ambassador meetings and workshops
- Apply youth engagement and mobilization techniques in the clinic and community environment as a PrEP Ambassador
- Assist the data collection clerks (in particular those on mobile units) where possible to complete accurate information on those referred for comprehensive SRH services, screened, offered and initiated on PrEP
- Submit paper collection sheets to data capturers at stipulated anchor clinics in the area/district
- Report on daily activities done to update the monthly stats on the number of people educated and assist with compiling monthly reports
- Reports on blockages that may arise from the continuum – from identifying AGYW at highest risk, demand creation, referral through to initiation
- Take ownership and accountability for tasks and demonstrates effective self-management
- Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
- Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
- Take ownership of driving your own career by participating in ongoing training and development activities
Required minimum education and training
Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities
- Good communication skills must be able to speak more than one language, and preferably an African language (spoken in South Africa)
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The ability to work independently and as part of a team
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Adaptable, approachable, empathetic, and willing to take initiative
Required minimum work experience
TO APPLY
- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV - Please Apply Online
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
- The closing date for all applications is 12 August 2021.
- Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
- Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
- In accordance with our Employment Equity goals and plan, preference will be given to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
Please note that AJ PERSONNEL is only responsible for advertising the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.
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