Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities: will be responsible for performing the following functions: Counselling and Behaviour Change Communication

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

2. The counsellor shall also be responsible for motivating the clients for regular General Medical Check-ups, referral of clients to ICTC, STI clinic, ART, etc.

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

4. The counsellor shall also investigate the counselling requirement of female sex partner and spouses of IDUs and motivating them to avail the HIV related services (STI treatment, ICTC, etc).

5. The counsellor 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, commoditisation of groups etc.

6. The Counsellor would be responsible for management of clinics especially record keeping, management of the patient flow, visit to the clinic sites or preferred providers and dispensing of medicines.

7. The counsellor in coordination with M&E assistant cum Accountant would identify the hotspots or sites with low service uptake, increasing defaulters – prepare outreach and visit plan to conduct hotspot level meeting.

8. The counsellor 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.

9. The counsellor along with M&E assistant cum Accountant would ensure timely reporting of condom stocks, OST medicine stocks, STI and other general medicine stocks to DAPCU, SACS, SETU or TSG as per requirements.

10. The counsellor will participate in stakeholder meeting and would prepare a stakeholder engagement plan to ensure that the issues related to BCC and service uptake is associated.

11. The Counsellor to travel to the project area for providing services in the field. The counsellor should visit the field for about 12-14 days in a month.

12. Any other TI related work assigned by the Project Manager as required by the project.

Reporting:

• Report to PM of the project.

• Provide data / information required for preparation of reports.

• Prepare at least 12 case records in the prescribed format and conduct risk management plan for HRGs or their regular clients.

• Maintain / ensure records on referrals to other services, patients register, follow up register, referrals cards, reconciliation of referral cards, patient cards, condom stock and issue register, needle and syringe stock and issue register, bio-medical waste management register, medicine stock and issue register, social marketing of condoms register or any other documents as per requirements.

Recruitment Qualifications Education and Experience: -

The counsellor should be a Post-graduate in Psychology or Social Work course. In case, a person with above qualification is not available, candidate with following qualification and experience may be considered: Graduate in Psychology or Social Work with minimum two years’ work experience in counselling or working with TIs/Adolescent Health Programmer/Mental Health settings/Substance Abuse or Drug Dependence programmers.

Knowledge and Skills

• Familiarity with issues related to marginalized communities especially with HRGs and their families.

• Strong communication and mobilization skills. • Ability to work in small teams, and flexible ways of working.

• Proficiency in report writing, case study compilation.

• At least 12 days of field visit is required.

• Overall management capacity to monitor, report and guide the team under him/her in absence of Project Manager or any other task provided by the team.

Please note that we will not be able to notify all applicants. Only short-listed candidates will be notified about the interview date.

Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Eligibility Criteria

Not Specified

Desired Candidate Profile

Graduation - Graduate-Other

Organization Details

• Organization Name:Grameen Swasthya Rakshak Sangh
• About Organization:we had done works in women empowerment in rural area regarding the domestic violence faced by the women of rural area covering rural all major sector including children nutrition and their health ..watershed work CPT CONTOUR TRENCH BOULDER BANDH AND STOP DAME We had worked for the environment in rural area by promoting plantation we are working currently on HIV AIDS project
  
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