Job Description

Counselling and Behaviour Change Communication

1. The ANM is responsible for taking individual and group sessions on HIV/AIDS, STI, safe sex and

injecting behaviours, prevention of abscesses, overdose prevention, drug treatment options,

OST, etc.

2. The ANM also shall engage in family counselling.

3. Demonstrate condom use, counsel on condom negotiation skills.

4. The ANM shall also be responsible for motivating the clients for regular GMC, referral of clients

to ICTC, STI clinic, ART, etc.

5. The ANM shall also engage with providers of social welfare services and facilitate linkage with

social welfare services.

6. The ANM shall also be responsible for orientation of ORWs on counselling techniques and

coordinate the outreach based BCC and psychosocial support activities.

7. The ANM shall also look into the counselling requirement of female sex partner and spouses of

IDUs and motivating them to avail the HIV related services (STI treatment, ICTC, etc).

8. In addition, s/he shall develop the BCC materials suitable for local context, follow-up clients both

in DIC and in the field and maintain records as per prescribed formats.

9. The ANM 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,

communitisation of groups etc.

10. Using the above areas the counsellor would guide the outreach team to have specific need based

BCC sessions to address these issues.

11. The ANM 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.

12. The ANM in coordination with M&E and Accountancy officer would identify the hotspots or sites

with low service uptake, increasing defaulters – prepare outreach and visit plan to conduct

hotspot level meeting.

13. The ANM 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.

14. The ANM along with M&E and Accountancy officer would ensure timely reporting of condom

stocks, OST medicine stocks, STI and other general medicine stocks to DAPCU, SACS, TSU or TSG

as per requirements.

15. The ANM will participate in site validation process and would update the site validation and

quarterly line listing of HRGs of the project along with M&E cum Accountancy officer.

16. The ANM 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.

17. Ensure collection of used needles and syringes in a IDU TI and bio-medical waste management as

per the required guidelines.

18. Disposal of clinic or health camp wastes as per the recommended guidelines.

19. The ANM to travel to the project area for providing services in the field. The counsellor should

visit the field for about 10-12 days in a month.

Reporting:

• Reporting 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 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.

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