Job Description

Location: Khordha Districts of Odisha

The ANM will be responsible for managing providing counselling and communication support to the programme in identifying individual or group behaviour including opportunities or challenges which have implication in HIV/AIDS Programme. Identify motivators or inhibitors among individuals or their family members and among groups which required to be addressed through BCC sessions by outreach team as well as through one to one or one to group counselling sessions. Ensure confidentiality while dealing with individual cases. Ensure participation in project based clinics, preferred providers clinics, health camps and would maintain patient registers, dispense medicines, demonstrate condom use, counsel on condom negotiation skills, education on NSEP, overdose prevention, abscess, OST, use of lubrication etc.

Key Responsibilities

• The ANM is responsible for taking individual and group sessions on HIV/AIDS, STI, safe sex and injecting behaviours, prevention of abscesses, overdose prevention, drug treatment options, OST, etc.

• The ANM also shall engage in family counselling.

• The ANM shall also be responsible for motivating the clients for regular GMC, referral of clients to ICTC, STI clinic, ART, etc.

• The ANM shall also be responsible for orientation of ORWs on counselling techniques and coordinate the outreach based BCC and psychosocial support activities.

• The ANM would be responsible for identifying individual or group motivators or inhibitors which require to be addressed for health seeking behaviours, condom use, decline in sharing the needles/syringes, decline in domestic or group violence, addressing issues related to self-esteem, communitisation of groups etc.

• The ANM in coordination with M&E and Accountancy officer would identify the hotspots or sites with low service uptake, increasing defaulters – prepare outreach and visit plan to conduct hotspot level meeting.

• Ensure collection of used needles and syringes in an IDU TI and bio-medical waste management as per the required guidelines.

• The ANM along with ORWs would prepare a plan to improve linkage with ICTCs / FICTCs ensuring sharing of line listing of referred clients from TI to ICTC, maintenance of referral cards and referral registers.

Knowledge and Skills

• Familiarity with government health policies and programmes Strong communication skills

• Ability to work in small teams, and flexible ways of working

• Proficiency in data recording/ management, report writing, case study compilation.

• At least 10 days in the field visit required.

• Overall management capacity to monitor, report and guide the team under him/her.

Education

• Qualified with ANM degree from any recognized institution. Must have minimum 1 year experience with a field level health programme.

Interested candidates can apply for above said post with their resume to the Mail Id- vjsstiidu@gmail.com or may contact to the phone No- 7077628229, 9040196028

Salary: Rs.9000/- (Rupees nine thousand)

Job Email id: vjsstiidu@gmail.com

Eligibility Criteria

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Desired Candidate Profile

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Organization Details

• Organization Name:Vishwa Jeevan Seva Sangha
• About Organization:The Vishwa Jeevan Seva Sangha (VJSS) works on issues of health and development, with a focus on, adolescent, youth, Institutional services for Drug De-addiction centre, Education, CCI (Child Care Institution), Old age home, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis since 1989. VJSS is an equal opportunity organization and respects diversity in gender, sexuality, caste and religion. The Vishwa Jeevan Seva Sangha (VJSS), Odisha is one of the reputed organization is implementing “Targeted Intervention Project” for prevention & control of HIV/AIDS on Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) of Khordha district with support of Odisha State AIDS Control Society (OSACS), Department of Health & Welfare, Government of Odisha since 2009.
  
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