Job Description

 Post- 01 Counsellor

Qualification- Post Graduate in Sociology, MSW and Computer Diploma

Experience- 2 Year in Health Sector

Salary- 16000 and 1200 Travel Allowances

Project- Targeted Intervention Project

Agency- M.P. State AIDS Control Society Bhopal

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 Programme/Mental Health settings/Substance Abuse or Drug Dependence programmes.

• 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.

The Counsellor 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.

Supervision and Monitoring Skills, Team Building Skills, Good listening skills, Case-record compilation, Risk assessment and management plan, Condom demo-re-demo, Lubricants, Basics of STI and HIV/AIDS, Basics of NSEP/OST programme, Community based monitoring

and rapport building, advocacy and networking, clinical record maintenance.

• 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.

Contact Person- Balvant Singh

Mob. No. 9340416482

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