Country: India
Closing date: 21 Aug 2019
This is a contract position based in India. Applicants must be Indian citizens or have authorization to work in India. Blossom Trust will not cover relocation costs or the cost of living in India.
About Blossom
Blossom Trust is a grassroots non-profit organisation founded in 1993 in Tamil Nadu, India. Blossom is working towards the personal, social and economic development of disadvantaged and marginalized members of the community, incl. LGTBQI+, HIV/AIDS, TB and diabetes. For our office branch in Tambaram, Chennai we are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Counselor for our Transgender Program.
Recruitment Qualifications
Education and Experience
The counselor should be a Post-graduate in Psychology or Social Work with a regular course.
candidate with following qualification and experience may be considered:
Graduate in Psychology or Social Work (only with regular course) with minimum two
years work experience in counselling or working with TIs/Adolescent Health, Programme/Mental Health settings/Substance Abuse or Drug Dependence programmes.
Knowledge and Skills
proficiency in written and spoken Tamil and a basic knowledge of English is required.
Familiarity with issues related to marginalized communities especially with HRGs and their families.
Strong communication and mobilization skills.
Ability to work in small teams, and flexible ways of working.
Proficiency in report writing, case study compilation.
Field visit experience required.
Overall management capacity to monitor, report and guide the team under him/her in absence of Project Manager or any other task provided by the team.
Functions / Key Results Expected
The Counselor will be responsible for managing providing counselling and communication support to the programme in identifying individual or group behavior including opportunities or challenges which have implication in HIV/AIDS Programme.
Identify motivators or inhibitors among individuals or their family members and among groups which required to be addressed through BCC sessions by outreach team as well as through one to one or one to group counselling sessions.
Ensure confidentiality while dealing with individual cases. Ensure participation in project based clinics, preferred providers clinics, health camps and would maintain patient registers, dispense medicines, demonstrate condom use, counsel on condom negotiation skills, education on NSEP, overdose prevention, abscess, OST, use of lubrication etc.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Counseling and Behaviour Change Communication
The counselor is responsible for taking individual and group sessions on HIV/AIDS, STI, safe sex and injecting practices, prevention of abscesses, overdose prevention, drug treatment options, OST, etc.
The counselor also shall engage in family counselling.
Demonstrate condom use, counsel on condom negotiation skills.
The counselor shall also be responsible for motivating the clients for regular General Medical Check ups, referral of clients to ICTC, STI clinic, ART, etc.
The counselor shall also be responsible for orientation of ORWs on counselling techniques and coordinate the outreach based BCC and psychosocial support activities.
Reporting:
Report 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 / ensure records on referrals to other services, patients register, follow-up register.
Training Requirements:
Supervision and Monitoring Skills, Team Building Skills, Good listening skills, Case-record
compilation, Risk assessment and management plan, Condom demo-re-demo, Lubricants, Basics of STI and HIV/AIDS, Basics of NSEP/OST programme, Community based monitoring and rapport building, advocacy and networking, clinical record maintenance.
Salary:
The successful candidate will be based in the branch office of Blossom Trust No-11, 1st Street, Nithiyantha nagar, Tambaram district Chennai 600 045. Salary will comprise Rs 12,300 per month.
How to apply:
If you are the highly skilled, self-motivated individual we are looking for, please send a CV along with a cover letter in English or Tamil explaining your interest in the position to worksblossom@gmail.com before august 21st, 2019. Employment starts as soon as possible. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis so we encourage you to apply early.