Case Navigators x 2 (12 Months Contract) Wits Soweto Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Main purpose of the job:

• Support patients to navigate the health care system

Location:

• Lillian Ngoyi Clinic and Stretford Clinic – Soweto, Johannesburg

Key performance areas:

• Provide cancer health education to patients/clients
• Conduct cancer screening for clients (Use Screening Tools with questions- mainly at PHC)
• Establish good relationships with patients and families, patient care teams, and clinical staff
• Communicate with health care teams to facilitate patient care
• Identify patient barriers to care and refer to appropriate resources
• Maintain patient confidentiality
• Navigate patients within the health care system (Know your referral system)
• Follow up with patients to ensure there is no loss to follow up, including the following:
  • Identify patient’s priority needs and refer appropriately
  • Meet with the palliative care team regularly to discuss patient issues where indicated
  • Maintain records of patient interactions
  • Report all challenges that you are experiencing to be offered support

Required minimum education and training:

• Grade 12

Required minimum work experience:

• Minimum one year of working experience

Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:

• Previous community work or volunteering as a community worker will be an advantage
• The ability to capture data on Redcap would be an advantage
• Good cultural understanding of the population served by the hospital
• Basic computer literacy
• Good communication skills
• Basic understanding of the health care system
• Trauma and counseling skills an advantage
• Ability to build relationships with different patients and service providers
• Commitment to good patient care
• Empathetic, passionate, and trustworthy when working with patients

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 and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
• AJ Personnel is fully POPIA Compliant.
• 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: 30 June 2022.
• 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.

Please note:

• Our Client, WHC, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.
• WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
• 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.