Community Health Worker

excerpts from the official posting

The project aims to improve early detection, referral, management, and follow-up of common chronic health conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, and other common chronic conditions, through household-based care, community health camps, digital health technologies, and telemedicine-enabled primary healthcare…

Main responsibilities

• Counselling and Behaviour Change Support
• Provide individual and group counselling on healthy diet, physical activity, tobacco and alcohol cessation, stress management, sleep hygiene, and medication adherence.
• Deliver structured counselling for participants with hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and common mental health conditions using standardized counselling protocols.
• Support participant goal setting and development of personalized behaviour change plans.

Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, Psychology, Social Work, Public Health, Health Education, or a related field.
• Degree/Diploma in Counselling, Health Education, Wellness Counselling, Behaviour Change Communication, or a related discipline.
• Prior experience in counselling, health promotion, community outreach, health camps, NCD programmes, or behaviour change interventions.