Community Health Worker – Cape Town needed at Anova Health Institute
Job title : Community Health Worker – Cape Town
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : May 29, 2024
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Key Duties and Responsibilities
Physical Care
- Assist the patient with personal hygiene.
- Wound care, how to dress a wound using appropriate material.
- Stoma therapy, catheter care, nail and foot care, tracheotomy care.
- Observations: temperature pulse and respiration.
- Be able to assess an emergency situation and provide basic life support and first aid in order to stabilize a patient.
- Assist patient with mobility, exercise limbs, take patient for walks, assist in and out of bed and to the toilet, have knowledge of motion exercises.
- Preparation of patient’s snacks and meals if necessary.
- Distribution of food parcels where necessary and if patient’s circumstances meet the required criteria.
Care of Patient’s Environment
- Make patients bed, replacing with clean bed linen when necessary.
- Tidy and clean the patients’ sleeping quarters, disposing of any soiled night clothes and bed linen and washing of these if necessary.
- Infection control.
Health and Education
- Educate patient and relatives about caring for the patient at home and resources available.
- Specialized care of catheters etc.
- Universal blood precautions.
- Nutrition: Identify food groups and educate patient/family on planning suitable meals for their needs
Referral Criteria
- Refer patients to health facilities and service providers where necessary.
- Know the when, why and how of referrals.
- Reporting of deterioration of patient’s condition to supervisor
Administration & General Duties
- Establish a set of records and ensure that they are up to date.
- Complete the appropriate record forms accurately and promptly ensuring that these are given to the supervisor timeously.
- Follow all policies and procedures as required by the organization and ensure that all work targets are met.
- Follow daily work schedule as worked out by the supervisor.
- Participate in meetings as required as well as attending training courses and workshops related to the nature of the work done.
Medication
- Supervision/administration of medication.
- Collection of prescribed medication (repeat) from the CHC
- Ensure as far as possible that the patient completes their treatment in the prescribed time given.
- Report any patient that defaults on treatment immediately to the staff of the CHC.
- Report any reaction to any medication to the OTL.
- Any other tasks as agreed with line manager.
Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required
- Grade 10-12
- Homebased carer qualification/certificate
- Experience working within communities
- 10-day HIV Counselling Certificate (advantageous)
- TB/HIV Adherence Counselling Certificate (advantageous)
- Must have a background knowledge of HAST & NC
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