Linkage Officer

Minimum Qualifications required:

• Grade 12
• Certificate in Enrolled Nurse
• Current Registration with SANC
• HIV/ AIDS Counselling Certificate (other courses are an advantage)
• Minimum 1 - 2 years’ experience (excluding practical’s)

Job Description:

• Link patients that tested positive in the community and facility into the facility for care and treatment
• Track and trace defaulting (early missed, late, unconfirmed LTFU) patients
• Facilitate data flow to outreach teams and map community outreach accordingly
• Provide health education
• Demand creation in the community:
  • Testing
  • Treatment
  • Differentiated care modalities
  • Health campaigns / wellness days
• Identify hotspots for testing campaigns
• Stakeholder engagement
• Attend and represent facility at community fora – WAC and War rooms

Tasks / Activities:

Linking positive clients into care

• Same day Initiation
  • coordinate a “handshake handover” to clinician for treatment for all patients tested positive in the community and in the facility
  • If not ready for linkage, record in linkage register for follow up
• Every day draw a list of patients initiated onto treatment from linkage register
• Review 7 day follow up - Follow up with any patients that had identified clinical issue/reason that they have not been attended to at the clinic
• Review linkage register for tested but not initiated and send reminder for initiation

Tracing LTFU

• Draw patient list of LTF (early missed, late, ULTFU)
• Call each patient 3 x over 3 days

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN CONTACTED WITHIN 2 WEEKS OF THE CLOSING DATE PLEASE CONSIDER YOU APPLICATION UNSUCCESSFUL 

CLOSING DATE:13 MAY 2022