Home Based Care Assistant: ActionAid
Deadline: 12 February 2010
ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together.
Purpose of the Position:
To provide basic nursing care and monitoring of patients’ holistic needs in their homes, providing care and administration of the Home based care program to ensure an effective and efficient palliative care service for areas of operation in Bulawayo and Gweru. This position is based in Bulawayo
Duties will include:
- Conduct partner level/household visits to provide medical and psycho-social services to beneficiaries
- Establish and/or improve the collection, analyses and management of health related data/information at Implementing Partner (IP) level in close liaison with AAI-Z M&E team.
- Identify training needs, carry out Training of Trainers & Monitor IP/Volunteers after HBC Training of Trainers.
- Train HBC clients, Primary and secondary care-givers in basic nursing skills for HBC and Health education of patients and families, secondary care givers and IP staff.
- Attend to and provide medical care and assistance to priority beneficiaries as identified by the Implementing Partner & Basic nursing care i.e. identifying patients’ needs, monitoring symptoms, monitoring medicines, patient nursing care etc
- Assist the doctor to produce a baseline survey report as well an end of program report
- Liaison with all doctors, nurses, clinics and other community resources and services.
- Administration – manage and facilitate systems and records of all enquiries, referrals and activities relating to the home-based care program.
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