Community Health Worker-Disease Prevention job at ANECCA | Apply Now

Responsibilities:

• Conduct health awareness campaigns on hygiene, sanitation, vaccination, and healthy lifestyle practices among individuals, families, and communities to promote disease prevention and health promotion best practises during community health events, campaigns, workshops etc.

• Design and distribute culturally appropriate health education materials to individuals, families and communities during different engagement foras.

• Conduct community outreaches in collaboration with health workers& other community key stakeholders to identify at risk populations and provide tailor made interventions.

• Participate in vaccination, immunisation campaigns and provide basic services such as malaria testing, distribution of mosquito nets, and water purification.

• Facilitate the process of early detection of identify potential disease outbreaks or unusual health patterns and referral of communicable and non-communicable diseases in line with public health best practises.

• Implement prevention measure and report on progress of ongoing activities on health-related at the community level on a regular basis.

• Provide support counselling and care on nutrition, reproductive health, and mental well-being, link individuals living with chronic illnesses to health services and follow up on adherence to prescribed treatment and prevention measures.

• Implement capacity building initiatives to community members and volunteers on disease prevention practices and community ownership and involvement in health initiatives.