Organizational Context

The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is a ministry of the Society of Jesus, integrated as a world non-governmental group with a mission to accompany, serve, and advocate for the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced folks. The group was based in November 1980 and now has a presence in over 50 nations. JRS undertakes providers at nationwide and regional ranges with the help and steering of a world workplace (IO) in Rome. JRS service is human and religious, working in conditions of best want, in search of the long-term well-being of refugees and displaced folks whereas not neglecting their rapid or pressing wants.

The important providers offered are within the subject of schooling, emergency help, and psychosocial help and livelihood actions. Currently, greater than 724,000 people are direct beneficiaries of JRS initiatives.

JRS fashion of labor is that of non-public presence to refugees. The service should at all times be direct and pastoral and thus exposes workers to the sufferings and limitations of refugee life. This typically entails arduous bodily circumstances and work below stress with restricted assets. Through our presence, we assist to maintain hope in individuals who dwell in troublesome and harmful conditions and who’ve each cause to despair.

To implement the objectives of the organisation JRS engages individuals who

• Are able to share in its mission
• Have the capability to know the plight of refugees
• Are dedicated to service and to justice
• Are keen to supply their abilities and expertise to help and encourage those that want to service refugees

Operational Context of the Position

A place falling below the realm of the JRS Health Department primarily based in Johannesburg space, whose important objective, whereas 100% subject work, is to enhance entry to healthcare and psycho-social help to sick refugees, migrants, native South Africans, and asylum seekers by way of the offered restricted monetary help.

Relationships – The Community Health Care Worker report on to the Health Coordinator. S/he works carefully with the Health Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing optimum affected person care as per the Home-Based Care (HBC) scope of observe –ie offering primary must sufferers who’re unable to assist themselves, bathing, dressing of wounds, resuscitation of sufferers, feeding, accompanying terminal ailing sufferers to hospitals for docs’ appointments, amassing remedy for terminal ailing sufferers, cooking, administering remedy for terminally ailing sufferers and home[1]cleansing, the place required
• Managing a caseload of continual and terminally ailing sufferers
• Coordinating the preliminary linkage to healthcare plan with native amenities and specialists
• Assisting with filing-in and acquisition/verification of documentation wanted to entry healthcare.
• Maintaining diligent efforts to have interaction/find purchasers misplaced to comply with up
• Addressing co-occurring continual circumstances (i.e., continual, and terminally ailing refugees and asylum seekers, previous/present traumatic experiences) and refer acceptable professionals.
• Addressing disclosure of HIV standing and companion notification
• Encouraging engagement in prevention schooling and facilitate entry to counselling and testing
• Maintaining communication with different members of the well being care staff by collaborating in case conferences and conferences
• Maintaining collaboration with healthcare amenities and community-based suppliers
• Documenting all shopper encounters on the info kinds; and develop and submit weekly and month-to-month stories.
• Strengthen the capacities of community-based caregivers by way of psycho-social help and coaching workshops
• Strengthen community- primarily based methods for well being promotion and illness prevention in non-communicable illnesses by way of well being advocacy, well being roadshows and well being ambassadors.
• Any different responsibility as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications and Leadership Competencies

• Experience in HBC. Possession of a Qualification in achievement of National Certificate: CHCW (proof might be required) is an added benefit.
• Ability to work successfully within the subject in a cross – cultural setting with multinational workers and purchasers
• Demonstrated capability to create and work as a part of a staff
• Flexibility, capability to multi-task and/or successfully prioritize and to work below stress and work extensively out-of-regular-working hours.
• Managing in a altering and pressured setting

Core values and ethics

• Good understanding of and compatibility with the values of JRS.
• Very good pastoral sense mixed with potential to pay attention and wonderful communication/inter-personal expertise.
• Demonstrated potential and expertise of working in a multi-cultural setting.
• Willingness and skill to journey to the regional and nation places of work, when acceptable.
• Compassion for weak folks together with refugees and displaced folks, a motivation to serve, and (fascinating) expertise of working within the context of compelled migration.
• A capability to adapt to primary dwelling and dealing circumstances significantly to function in a sub[1]optimum working setting, within the designated space
• Demonstrable expertise of, and capability for, working collaboratively as a part of a staff and placing in observe staff constructing expertise.
• Flexibility in work hours as wanted.

BEHAVIOURAL AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Honest, accountable, and correct with figures.
• Trustworthy and dependable.
• Ability to work below super stress.
• Sound information of economic techniques.
• Sound information of JRS insurance policies and procedures.
• Sympathy with objectives and ethos of JRS and a capability to work inside organizational tradition.
• Strong administrative expertise.
• Analytical, pragmatic, and important pondering.
• Ability to keep up deal with long term aims.
• The potential to map out an informative and efficient subject reporting system that can allow measurement of progress in opposition to acknowledged objectives and aims.
• Provide on-the-job suggestions and instigate rapid corrective measures to make sure effectivity of workers in help of the achievement of mission objectives.
• Good staff participant.

Conditions

• Contract is for six months renewable (relying on funding) with an preliminary probation of three months.
• JRS remuneration coverage is consistent with JRS ethos to supply efficient {and professional} service and on the similar time categorical solidarity with the folks served. The wage scale is calculated with the usage of a Post Adjustment Multiplier and considers years of related expertise and diploma of duty of the position.
• The remuneration for this place is aggressive with wonderful advantages. Benefits together with pension fund, medical assist, and workers skilled growth. The non- financial compensation features a distinctive alternative to be a part of an revolutionary, significant, enjoyable, and quickly rising group that’s reworking the lives of hundreds of thousands of weak folks.