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Date Posted: Monday, September 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job summary:
The linkages and referrals officer will oversee implementation of the intra-facility, inter facility and bi-direction community referrals. The position entails support to Facility case workers, Young Adolescent peer groups, Family support groups (FSG), adolescent health champions, differentiated service delivery, improving community referrals and reporting for health and nutrition services. The officer will ensure timely reporting, proper documentation and updates of clients’ information in the HIV clinic and antenatal care/ Mother baby care points


Key duties and responsibilities:
● Coordinate linkages for all enrolled Children Living with HIV at all targeted facilities
● Strengthen client appointment and tracking systems at the supported health facilities including contact tracing for TB
● Strengthen quality improvement structures at the community levels to improve on the referrals and linkages system
● Mentor, coach and supervise facility case workers
● Support a bi-directional linkage and referral system of clients from community to facility and facility to community.
● Support documentation, updating facility / community and community / facility registers by case workers
● Ensure proper documentation of work done by case workers, achievements registered and lessons learnt throughout the project implementation and scale up best practices.
● Coordinate activities for demand creation for all supported health facilities, through conducting feedback meetings, community dialogues
● Support case workers in extraction and generation of lists of clients (including but not limited to missed appointments, lost and lost to follow up clients, clients due for viral load tests and non-suppressed clients): share the list with responsible persons and structures for tracing and return back to care.
● Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor.


Qualifications, skills and experience
● Bachelor’s degree in sociology, social work and social administration, community development, community health, development studies or related courses
● A minimum of 3 years’ experience in HIV/TB, Nutrition related work with government institution or NGOs involved in community work
● Skills in strengthening health and nutrition service delivery programmes, supporting referrals and linkages between and among communities and health facilities
● Excellent communication skills and strong inter-personal skills
● Fluency in written and spoken English
● Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with frequent travel to the field
● Ability to ride a motorcycle
● Knowledge of the relevant Uganda national health policies, strategies and structures
● Have solid computer skills


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and Qualified, Hand deliver your application letter together with the relevant documents, photocopy national ID, an updated CV with 3 recognised referees, their addresses and telephone contacts.
The deadline for submission is 12th September 2022.

Applications should be addressed to:
The Diocesan Health Coordinator
Masaka Diocese
P.O Box 14
Masaka Uganda
Tel: +256772318806

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