Job ID: 298910

Outreach Worker and Counsellor

Shri Bhairvi Social Foundation

Location: Kaithal, Haryana

Apply by: 31 Jul 2026

Relevant Sectors

Social, Gender, Education, Youth, Child

Outreach Worker
12th Pass With Besic Computer Knowledge
Salary Rs.10500 + 1500 TA Per Month

Counsellor
postgraduate in psychology or social work With 2-3 Years Experience
Salary Rs. 16000 +1700 TA Per Month

Duties and Responsibilities: will be responsible for performing the following functions:
Counseling and Behaviour Change Communication

1. The counsellor is responsible for taking individual and group sessions on HIV/AIDS, STI, safe sex
and injecting practices, prevention of abscesses, overdose prevention, drug treatment options,
OST, etc.
2. The counsellor also shall engage in family counselling.
3. Demonstrate condom use, counsel on condom negotiation skills.
4. The counsellor shall also be responsible for motivating the clients for regular General Medical
Check ups, referral of clients to ICTC, STI clinic, ART, etc.
5. The counsellor shall also be responsible for orientation of ORWs on counselling techniques and
coordinate the outreach based BCC and psychosocial support activities.
6. The counsellor shall also look into the counselling requirement of female sex partner and
spouses of IDUs and motivating them to avail the HIV related services (STI treatment, ICTC, etc).
7. In addition, s/he shall develop the BCC materials suitable for local context, follow-up clients both
in DIC and in the field and maintain records as per prescribed formats.
8. The counsellor would be responsible for identifying individual or group motivators or inhibitors
which require to be addressed for health seeking behaviours, condom use, decline in sharing the
needles/syringes, decline in domestic or group violence, addressing issues related to self-esteem,
communitisation of groups etc.
9. Using the above areas the counsellor would guide the outreach team to have specific need based
BCC sessions to address these issues.
10. The Counsellor would be responsible for management of clinics especially record keeping,
management of the patient flow, visit to the clinic sites or preferred providers and dispensing of
medicines.
11. The counsellor in coordination with M&E assistant cum Accountant would identify the hotspots
or sites with low service uptake, increasing defaulters – prepare outreach and visit plan to
conduct hotspot level meeting.
12. The counsellor along with ORWs would prepare a plan to improve linkage with ICTCs / FICTCs
ensuring sharing of line listing of referred clients from TI to ICTC, maintenance of referral cards
and referral registers.
13. The counsellor along with M&E assistant cum Accountant would ensure timely reporting of
condom stocks, OST medicine stocks, STI and other general medicine stocks to DAPCU, SACS, TSU
or TSG as per requirements.
14. The counsellor will participate in site validation process and would update the site validation and
quarterly line listing of HRGs of the project along with M&E assistant cum Accountant.
15. The counsellor will participate in stakeholder meeting and would prepare a stakeholder
engagement plan to ensure that the issues related to BCC and service uptake is associated.
16. Ensure collection of used needles and syringes in a IDU TI and bio-medical waste management as
per the required guidelines.
17. Disposal of clinic or health camp wastes as per the recommended guidelines.
18. The Counsellor to travel to the project area for providing services in the field. The counsellor
should visit the field for about 10-12 days in a month.
19. The counsellor shall also engage with providers of social welfare services and facilitate linkage
with social welfare services.

Job Email ID:

tikaithal.sbs(at)gmail.com