Community Health Worker

PAROW/GOODWOOD AREA

Position Overview:

The Community Health Worker (CHW) provides outreach, preventative, promotive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative services. They promote health and well-being, educate communities, conduct screenings, offer basic care, counselling, and psychosocial support, facilitate referrals, support medication adherence, and mobilize communities through awareness campaigns.

Key responsibilities:

• Promote overall health and well-being within households and communities.

• Provide information, health education and promote healthy behaviour and disease preventions.

• Conduct structured household screening and profiling to identify health needs.

• Provide appropriate direct basic services including treatment for minor health problems/needs, counselling and psychosocial support for individuals or households, as defined by the CHW Scope of Work.

• Facilitate appropriate referral for health, rehabilitation and social support services as needed for individuals or households.

• Provide adherence support for people on medication and support follow-up care, including delivery of chronic medication.

• Facilitate community mobilisation and create awareness on health diseases through awareness campaigns and mobilise around community needs.

• Promote overall health and well-being within households and communities.

Requirements:

Home Base Care Certificate or equivalent.

Certification in HIV/AIDS and/or chronic illness.

At least two years of experience working with vulnerable communities.

Experience conducting health promotion and/or health education activities.

Experience providing direct basic services (e.g. treatment for minor health problems/needs, counselling and psychosocial support for individuals or households)

If you do not receive correspondence from us within one week after closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful. Tygerberg Hospice reserves the right to verify information supplied by applicants.

Job Type: Full-time

Information :

• Company : Tygerberg Hospice
• Position : Community Health Worker
• Location : Bellville, Western Cape
• Country : ZA