1.Main Job Purpose
Improve the legal literacy of young women by educating young women on their rights to confidentiality, informed consent, protection against discrimination, violence and sexual exploitation. Improve the referral of clients to social grant support, medico-legal post violence care and GBV services. Support and coordinate of human tights advocacy and campaigns, alongside civil society. To promote healthy behaviours and prevent risk behaviours in adolescents through; the implementation of targeted interventions at individual, facility and community level in order to enhance uptake of HIV-testing and linkage to and retention to treatment and uptake of prevention services such as PrEP and sexual reproductive health and services.
2. Key Performance Areas
| Health Promotion |
- Engage with communities and advocate for improved rights awareness, gender transformative approaches, GBV prevention and stigma reduction.
- Create and identify platforms for the promotion and community education on human rights: Identify community organisations that link and support AGYW, community spaces, recreation spaces and places of learning where the peer educator can interact with AGYW
- Identify the places where AGYW congregate and add all the sites to your mapping tool and identify opportunities for promoting human right.
- Improve the legal literacy of young women by educating young women on their rights to confidentiality, informed consent, protection against discrimination, violence and sexual exploitation Conduct age-appropriate adolescent-centred health talks to adolescents using existing IEC materials where available; in the facility and in the community.
- Promote B-wise usage and sign up
- Educate adolescents on their health-related rights and responsibilities specifically around HTS, AYFS, SRH and PrEP
- Do practical demonstration on condom use, hand washing and other healthcare practices
- Conduct demand creation for outreach services and address barriers among youth to access contraceptives and GBV services
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| Linkage to care of adolescent and youth |
- Serve as a contact person and navigator for adolescents accessing legal and healthcare services
- Record human right violations and refer for access to justice
- Improve the referral of clients to social grant support, medico-legal post violence care and GBV services
- Assist in creating awareness of CBO service packages, facilitate and strengthen referrals.
- Promote the uptake of HIV-testing and linkage to care in adolescents and support them through the process
- Follow up to ensure clients attend their scheduled appointments
- Identify, recruit and maintain clients into Youth Care Clubs and support groups within selected facilities
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| Improving retention in care and virological suppression |
- Create a safe space for adolescents to discuss social and health-related issues affecting them.
- Support disclosure and adherence and refer for disclosure those with poor adherence and unsuppressed VLs
- Recruit HIV positive adolescents & youth to youth care clubs (YCCs) and adult services
- Organisation and facilitation of Youth Care Clubs
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| Health Facility Engagement |
- Form part of the multidisciplinary facility team and work with the teams to ensure that programme’s targets are met
- Participate on the Clinics’ Health Committee/Forum and represent adolescents in these forums
- Develop adolescent’s friendly forum where adolescent health opinions, concerns and expectations are taken into consideration.
- Act as a voice for adolescents in the facility/community for HIV related issues
- Promote Adolescent and Youth Friendly Service Provision
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| Community Engagement
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- Support and coordinate of human rights advocacy and campaigns, alongside civil society.
- Serve as a link between adolescents, local clinics, CBOs and other health services within the community
- Under supervision, establish or strengthen links with schools and actively engage in outreach programmes
- Serve as youth representative for ANOVA Health Institute at various youth gatherings and platforms
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3. Qualifications and Experience
- Completed Grade 12
- Local youth between 19 and 35 years of age
- Currently unemployed and not engaged in formal education
- Experience in public speaking and previous leadership roles an advantage
- Experience working with adolescents in facilities, community or schools or former
- Experience as a LoveLife GroundBreaker, an advantage
