Job ID: 306386

Counsellor

Sumitra Samajik Kalyan Sansthan

Location: Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh

Apply by: 05 Nov 2026

Relevant Sectors

Administration, HR, Management, Accounting/Finance

Health, Doctors, Nurses, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition

Social, Gender, Education, Youth, Child

Post - 01 Counsellor
Qualification - MSW, Post-graduate in Psychology.
Experience- minimum two years work experience in counselling or working with TIs/Adolescent Health Programme/Mental Health settings/Substance Abuse or Drug Dependence programmes.
Salary - 16000/- per month and travel 1200/- prer month
Project - Targeted Intervention Project
Funding Agency - M.P. State AIDS Control Society Bhopal
Contact - 8103970299
Duties and Responsibilities: will be responsible for performing the following functions:
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 an 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.
20. Any other TI related work assigned by the Project Manager as required by the project.

Job Email ID:

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