Peer Educator position Summary

An NGO called Anova transforms lives and offers humans electricity. Our desire to look humans properly and lead pleasing lives drives us to provide healthcare answers and help to those in need.

late in 2017, Anova released the Jab smart undertaking in response to HIV amongst drug-the usage of people (PWUD) inside the metropolis of Johannesburg (COJ). PWUD are disproportionately prone to HIV, revel in great stigma and discrimination, and regularly lack access to imperative medical care. Jab smart is a peer-led initiative that gives PWUD several harm reduction services. The initiative is carried out in collaboration with the COJ fitness District and is funded via worldwide Fund thru NACOSA, a partner employer.

Anova is searching for Peer Educators to promote health services to PWUD customers in COJ who’re informed about the drug-the use of surroundings and famous websites. The task’s premise is that PWUD peer-to-peer interaction makes clients greater receptive.

As a peer educator, you’ll meet in private with PWUD at the same time as keeping their confidentiality. you may offer them with get right of entry to to more than a few offerings, including a program for sharing needles and syringes, HIV checking out, TB screening, and complete remedy for sexual fitness problems. If indispensable, you’ll also refer clients to Opioid Substitution remedy (OST).

You should be judged equipped and successfully end a short schooling route on HIV and sexual health in order to be eligible.

Essential tasks and Accountabilities

Mobilization of friends

acquire not less than 80 clients every month to present this system and its offerings.

verify the risks for the eighty customers you spot every month.

send the ones 80 clients to the Social Auxiliary employee, suggest, Linkage Officer, HTS, and Nurses.

Area assistance

 

each month, provide at the least eighty customers facts and a package deal on harm discount.

Oversee your cohort, see to it that they obtain offerings, and notify the coordinator so that your registration is updated.

Charting

each month, find at least two new locations.

you need to upload each place for your mapping tool.

Counseling periods and debriefings

 

Minimal necessities for experience, abilities, and qualifications

12th grade

both literacy and numeracy capabilities are required.

Being able to build rapport and feature productive conversations with drug customers who’re presently the use of tablets

capacity to stick to stringent secrecy requirements

the potential to usually maintain records non-public.

reliable and on time

it would be tremendous to have prior grasp of HIV/AIDS and an established HIV counseling certificate.

 

Choice will be given to certified applicants from particular businesses as precise inside the Employment equity Act fifty five of 1998 and any later modifications thereto, in line with our employment equity dreams and format. people with impairments could be given preference.

Anova fitness Institute has a vaccine requirement because it gives indispensable scientific offerings. if your utility is regular, you will need to offer documentation of your immunization history previous to beginning paintings inside the position.

After four weeks of submitting their application, candidates who’ve now not heard from anybody should think about themselves unsuccessful.

Should an agency’s applicant be hired by Anova, agency fees will not be reimbursed for unsolicited resumes.

Visit our website at www.anovahealth.co.za for further information on Anova.

 

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Job interview Don’t and Do’s

Dos

Dress professionally to demonstrate that you take the interview seriously. Err on the side of conservatism. You should always be well-groomed and immaculate.

Be aware of the precise time and place of your interview; estimate the travel time and allow enough time to park, find a restroom to freshen up, etc.

Arrive ten minutes early for the interview (or sooner if the employer or the event requests it).

Show consideration and decency to everyone you come into contact with. It is possible that they will be asked about you while making recruiting decisions.

When your interviewer greets you, give a strong handshake, look them in the eye, and wear a smile.

DON’Ts

Make no justifications. Accept accountability for the choices and deeds you commit to.

Don’t criticize instructors or former employers (or anybody else).

Never fabricate application materials or interview responses.

It is important that you approach the interview with professionalism and not as if it is a practice run or a way to shop around. Both the organization and the interviewer are insulted by this.

Avoid conveying the idea that an organization’s location is the primary reason it interests you.

Avoid coming off as a salary-focused person and wait to inquire about compensation and perks until the employer brings it up.

 

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