Centre for Family Health Initiative (CFHI) is a non-political, non-religious, not-for-profit organization committed to the promotion of health and protection of the well-being of families in Africa. Driven by a vision of Healthy Families; Healthy Societies, CFHI’s mission is to develop a safe and accommodating society for all, through community driven and family centered health interventions, socio-economic empowerment, research, and policy development.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Case Manager
Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full Time
Duration: One year
Renewal is subject to funding
Job Role:
The Case Manager ensures that his/her assigned clients receive a coordinated range of client-centered services linking clients with health care, psychosocial and other services. The case manager is responsible for completing biannual reassessments with clients to include completion of a care plan in addition to seeing clients periodically to address their current needs and checking compliance to medical care and adherence HIV medications. The case manager is responsible for entering all client data, units of service, and case notes into the database in a timely manner. The case manager reports to M&E Officer and Project Manager.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Enroll households according to target streams into CFHI’s IHVN ACHIEVE OVC program within allocated communities in FCT.
- Service delivery to enrolled beneficiaries.
- Work closely with community members to strengthen knowledge and promote awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention through behavioural change.
- Responsibility for own clients/cases assigned by supervisor.
- Assist and encourage clients to access medical care.
- Data entry and update into NOMIS on a timely basis
- Maintain assigned clients’ medical and service record files and be responsible for files completeness.
- Conduct initial comprehensive assessment of clients’ needs and support systems.
- Develop a comprehensive, individualized service plan and coordination of the services required for implementation of plans for clients.
- Monitor to assess the efficacy of the plan and periodic re-evaluation and revision of the plan as necessary.
Others
- Participate in CFHI / IHVN ACHIEVE project mandatory trainings
- Provide case management services to own panel of clients including:
- Assist clients in accessing routine medical care for HIV.
- Refer appropriately to other AIDS and social service agencies.
- Provide HIV risk reduction education and prevention
- Ensure client’s compliance with medications, education as necessary
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Attend mandatory monthly review meetings and send periodic reports
Qualifications/ Requirements
- Minimum of OND certificate in any discipline.
- 1-2 years of experience in OVC case management.
- Basic knowledge of computer software such as Microsoft Office is mandatory.
Key Competencies
Candidate must have:
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and make reasoned judgments in a timely fashion.
- Experience in dealing with difficult and sensitive situations in a professional manner.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Sensitivity in working with multiple cultures and beliefs, and to gender equity.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills and adept at cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent professional written and verbal communication.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to multitask.
Interested candidates should forward a cover letter and CV to hr@cfhinitiative.org
Application Closing Date: October 28, 2021
NOTE: If we get qualified candidates before application closing date, they will be contacted for immediate engagement.