AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) jobs in Uganda
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is an international non- profit NGO based in Los Angeles, California, USA. AHF operates across 45 countries worldwide and has 1.5M+ patients in care, the majority of these being in Africa. AHF Africa comprises 13 country programs. AHF collaborates with the Governments of these countries through Ministries /Departments of Health (MoH) to provide cutting edge medicine and free HIV and AIDS services, including antiretroviral therapy in resource constrained settings.
The organisation now seeks to hire highly competent, dynamic, and experienced persons to fill the position below.
Linkage & Retention Assistant - 01 POSITION
The position is based at Masindi Hospital. The position is an important service based
in the clinic setting and will working with a multidisciplinary team to ensure routine
linkage and retention operations or activities are implemented as per the standard
operating documents/guidelines. The holders of these positions will perform among others the following duties.
• Work closely with the HIV care/treatment and HIV testing teams to reach
• out to HIV positive clients encourage them to come into care and monitor their linkage and engagement in medical care.
• He/ She will make phone calls, arrange home visits and work with community structures to reach newly diagnosed HIV positive clients that haven’t been linked to care and treatment.
• He/ she will make notes and regularly update the appropriate linkage and retention tools when they contact the client.
• Work with the clinic team to identify, follow-up and support clients that miss clinic appointments and those that disengage from care.
• In conjunction with Community Tracers, conduct community follow up of clients that cannot be reached on phone.
• Reach out to partners of clients that recently test HIV positive and invite them to the clinic for HIV counselling and testing services.
Qualifications and Experience:
• Minimum of Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Psychology, Guidance & Counselling, Social Work & Social Administration, Social Sciences, Nursing, or a related relevant field.
• Training in HIV and AIDS care and management
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with HIV clients in public health institutions, community services or medical setting.
• Must have experience working with people living with HIV and AIDS, and or other chronic illness, substance users, and persons with mental diagnoses.
• Holds a valid driver’s license. Classes A.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 24
Level of Education: Associate Degree
Job application procedure
To be considered for this recruitment, please.
Address your email application (Cover Letter and CV ONLY) to: aidshealth.org>globalhr.africa
aidshealth.org mentioning clearly Position and Location in the subject line. The email should not be larger than 2 MB. Any larger email will not be considered.
Deadline: Monday 15April 2024 at 5:00pm
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) does not request payment or any form of financial transaction in exchange for employment or advancement opportunities
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