Facility Base Officer

The Facility Based Officer will serve as a liaison between the facility, patients, and community, educating patients and community members, providing psychological and social support, and performing home visits. The officer will work as part of a large clinical team and notice the needs of patients, families, and community members, making referrals to appropriate clinic staff when necessary.

Requirements

• Act as a main liaison between the facility, patients, and community
• Serve as main representative of PIH and PIH values at facilities
• Receive community-based referrals of presumptive cases as well as referrals from other facilities with proper paperwork and accompany patients throughout clinical process
• Keep track of all positive and presumptive patients and their sputum, including ensuring that tests are coordinated and tests results communicated back to patient through CHWs and supervisors
• Provide counselling and support to patients, including advocating for them where necessary
• Assist facilitation of TB /HIV drugs orders and supply chain with CHW Program Officer and TB /HIV District Supervisors
• Attending all HIV/TB clinics
• Accompanying patients across the clinical process
• Keeping a tracking sheet of all HIV/TB patients and their assigned CHWs
• Compile a bi-weekly report of the number of patients with and without CHWs and share with program officer