Job Ref #: RTC-2997
Industry: Pharmaceutical And Medical/Healthcare
Job Type: Contract
Positions Available: 1

Job Description

• Conduct community-based small group and one-on-one education sessions about health services with the goal of identifying interested clients.
• Conduct outreach activities including door to door visits, and events at taxi ranks, youth clubs, malls (amongst others).
• Distribute pamphlets and posters and arrange workshops with community organisations and campaigns.
• Impart knowledge in a culturally informed and context-specific manner to potential clients on HIV preventative options to help ensure that clients make an informed decision regarding health behaviour.
• Identify barriers and enablers about access to health services and communicate solutions to clients accordingly.
• Engage potential clients professionally in order to establish consistent reproductive health and prevention messages.  This includes correct and consistent condom usage, sexual behaviour, and delaying sexual debut.
• Promote and market HIV and TB services and programmes.
• Ensure that at least 50% of all recruited clients access the health services that was promoted to them
• Regularly revisit the client base of recruits that have not yet made a decision and encourage them to access health services.
• Support the DoH Social Mobilization officer and the ACSM unit to meet their deliverables.
• Support mass mobilization efforts and campaigns of the Department in the allocated sub-district
• Support condom distribution
• Coordinate campaigns and events. 
• Liaise with different media platforms to promote HAST programmes
• Report weekly activities and the number of leads generated

Job Requirements

 

Minimum Required Education and Experience

• Grade 12 or equivalent.
• Diploma / Degree (NQF Level 6/7) in Public Administration / Public Management as recognised by SAQA.
• Valid drivers’ licence.
• Training certificates in HIV programmes.
• Certificates or knowledge of computer literacy.