Jobs at:
Hospice Africa Uganda ( HAU )

Vacancy title:
Social Worker

Deadline of this Job:
19th November 2016

Duty Station:
Mobile Hospice Mbarara, Uganda

Job details:
Since 1993, Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU) (national organization) has promoted modern methods of pain and symptom control as well as "whole-person” (holistic) care for patients living with cancer and HIV/AIDS. HAU strives to uphold excellent clinical standards and provide quality education courses and advocacy activities to promote the spread of palliative care throughout Uganda and Africa. Hospice Africa Uganda has a head office in Kampala, site offices in Mbarara and Hoima Districts. HAU wishes to recruit dynamic, skilled, and caring Ugandans committed to palliative care to fill the following positions:

Job Purpose: Professionally provide social work support to patients, train and educate colleagues at HAU and train health workers attending courses in the education department.

Specific Duties: Direct Patient Care: Lead on psychosocial work with the team to identify and support patients that may need social welfare; Follow up patients on comfort fund and ensure accountability and transparency; Network patients with other organizations according to their needs; Offer counseling and use effective communication skills to identify psychosocial problems 81 find suitable options] solutions; Take part in health education and health promotion of patients and family members; Develop & maintain appropriate information, education & communication materials for patients & their families; Liaise with other health professionals for appropriate patient consultations and referrals for care; Attend to documentation of patient and family interactions in the case notes; Ensure adequate discharge planning; Follow-up patients; Coordinate day care activities. Teaching and Training: Teach, train and provide supervision for colleagues (clinicians, volunteers, interns) at HAU regarding social work issues; Support, supervise and mentor social work students on placement and training programs at HAU; To assist in building a reservoir of resource persons, materials and audiovisual aids for training in Palliative care; Teach and reinforce learning of psychosocial skills for patients and their families so that they cope with their illness and have increased resilience.

Project leadership (Coordinate the Give A Chance (GAC) projects): Make school fees, scholastic and sundries requests for Give A Chance beneficiaries every term; Make school fees payment for GAC beneficiaries and ensure all receive scholastic materials and sundries; Offer support and supervision for children’s schooling, , every term and make termly reports; Write annual reports for Give A Chance projects.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting: Monitor, evaluate and report on social work activities at HAU

Advocacy: Advocate for welfare of patients admitted in hospitals, in the community and those enrolled on research studies; Actively promote access to comprehensive quality palliative care to people living with HIV/AIDS and cancer and their families.

Minimum Requirements: At least a Bachelors Degree in Social Work and Social Administration and 3 years’ experience caring for terminally ill patients and families, and managing their psychosocial issues; Teaching skills Detailed job descriptions of these jobs can be got from our website: www.hospiceafrica.or.ug 

Job application procedure
Qualified and interested candidates may hand deliver, email or post a detailed resume with a cover letter indicating three work related referees to the address below. Emails must not exceed 2MB.

Deadline for receiving applications is 19th November 2016.

The Human Resource and Administration Office
Hospice Africa Uganda,
Plot 130 Makindye Road,
R0. Box 7757 Kampala,
Email: humanresource@hospiceafrica.or.ug