Treatment Navigator TB (WRHI) Gophelega (Stanza Bopape)

Main purpose of the job:

• To provide individualized support for patients newly initiated on ART after the first month on ART and those already on ART, including follow-up contacts to ensure retention of clients into HIV services at their allocated facility or community cluster

Location:

• Stanza Bopape 2 Clinic – Pretoria, Tshwane

Key performance areas:

• Work together with the Counselling linkage officers to identify patients who newly tested HIV and TB positive and initiated TB treatment within 2 weeks in their allocated facility and catchment area and enroll them into treatment navigator care
• Provide individualized support for patients newly initiated on TB treatment after 2 weeks and beyond, including follow-up contact through regular meetings, phone calls, and SMS, linking them to ART within 2 weeks after starting TB treatment
• Remind the patients about their next visit appointments for the first and subsequent follow-up visits for the first 12 months through SMS, phone calls, and home visits
• Send SMSs and make telephonic call reminders to the patient about the next appointment date,1st SMS and call 7 days prior to the appointment date, and the 2nd SMS and call must be at 2 days prior to the next appointment date
• Liaise with the TB focal Nurse to identify patients due for conversion and discharge sputa and those who are due for TB outcomes
• Liaise with the nurse to identify newly diagnosed HIV-positive presumptive TB patients and link them to ART or TB treatment
• Identify contacts of index TB patients, link them to HIV and TB screening and testing
• Trace all clients who missed appointments within 24 to 72 hours to avoid early, late, and unconfirmed missed appointments (SMS, call, and home visits)
• Conduct physical tracing of the patients who missed their appointments within 7 days of missing the appointments
• Track patients who are transferred between facilities and link them to care and treatment within 7 days
• Submit weekly feedback reports on outcomes of tracking and tracing to the manager and data clerks
• Liaise with the clinicians and data clerks to ensure documenting and capturing of tracing outcomes both on clinical stationery and TIER.Net
• Refer all TB/HIV co-infected clients with different needs to multi-disciplinary teams (psychosocial, nutrition, etc.)
• Always Maintain patient confidentiality
• Manage the tracking and tracing data for TB and ART initiation or follow-up visits for HIV/TB patients at the facility and community level, including source documents and database updates
• Daily data capturing of lost-to-care patients from relevant paper-based systems
• Liaise with the data clerk weekly for generation of late missed appointments, waiting for ART and TB treatment, and uLTFU lists from TIER.Net
• Together with the data clerk and admin officer, retrieve files of patients appearing on the lists above to confirm missed appointments
• Compile weekly data of patients lost to initiation/follow-up and submit data to relevant personnel for telephonic tracing
• Compile a list of patients traced telephonically and not linked to care, and submit it to the community tracing team, WBPHCOTs leader, and facility manager for further tracing
• Compile reports of activities and patient outcomes and submit them to TB Project Manager timeously
• Provide health talks on HIV, TB, Sexual Reproductive Health topics, and other related health services
• Participate in health promotion campaigns, including holiday programs and youth events. These will occasionally occur on the weekend
• Distribute condoms and IEC material within the community
• Recruit clients for TB screening and testing, and other health screening services in the community
• Motivate individuals and groups to bring their partners and children for HIV/TB and other health services
• Organize community awareness, screening, mop up, and tracing campaigns on a quarterly basis to improve the management of TB/HIV clients and retention into care activities
• Educate patients about side effects and what to do when experiencing such, disclosure and reporting any change in contact details including relocation
• Educate patients about the importance of ensuring that their conversion and discharge sputa are collected
• Compile reports of activities and patient outcomes
• Keep a record of daily activities
• Share all reports and records timeously
• Take ownership, responsibility, 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, responsibility, and accountability for tasks and demonstrates effective self-management

Required minimum education and training:

• Grade 12 or equivalent with basic computer literacy

Required minimum work experience:

• At least 6 months of volunteer relevant experience in the health field or related post

Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Basic HIV knowledge

Demands of the job:

• Teamwork and collaboration

Communications and relationships:

• Working overtime or over weekends may be required from time to time
• Able to work in a highly pressurized and challenging environment
• May be required to work at sites that are under confidentiality, tact with discretion to be always maintained

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: 07 December 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 - RHI, 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.