Community Based Rehabilitation Officer (CBR) at HelpAge International Tanzania

Community Based Rehabilitation Officer (CBR) One Position
Community Based Rehabilitation Officer (CBR) at HelpAge International February, 2023
HelpAge
International would like to recruit professionals with multi skills in
promoting health and wellbeing of people living with disabilities,
chronic illnesses and older age to enable them to participate in the
everyday occupations of life including:- mobility, self-care activities
(showering, dressing, preparing food, eating and personal hygiene),
productive activities, being part of a community group, engaging in
development activities. The recruited
professional should also be capable of enabling people experiencing
disability to identify and implement methods that support their
participation in occupations. The recruited professional should be able
to work in a wide range of public and private settings including
communities, public and private health facilities, people’s homes,
educational facilities and non-government organisations.
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Job Purpose
S/he
is responsible for the overall delivery of outcomes at field level
related to the PSN(People with specific needs) rehabilitation and
restoration at the CBR centres and communities. The incumbent will work
with the CBR team to ensure that key project outcomes are achieved at
scale as per the donor and HelpAge approaches and strategies. The
incumbent will also play a key role in building the capacity of
Incentive workers on issue of rehabilitation, case management,
physiotherapy and orthopedic while adhering to multidisciplinary
approach in delivering services to people with specific needs within the
refugee camps and surrounding host communities.

Role and Responsibilities

• Conducting
  identification and functional assessment of People with specific needs
  at the CBR centre and ensure their rehabilitation needs, and
  physiotherapy treatment plan.
• Conducting weekly outreach visit,
  home visits and providing support to persons with disabilities and older
  people to identify their needs and responding accordingly at filed
  level.
• Ensuring identified needs of People with disability at
  the field level are met with quality care and support and meets
  standards practices in line with the medical rehabilitation protocols,
  international classification tools of disabilities and functional
  disorders.
• Taking the roles of monitoring the work of other CBR
  incentive staff administratively in collaboration with the Protection
  programme Officer and track the implementation of weekly plans to meet
  the needs of people with specific needs as planned for community
  outreach workers.
• Mobilizing people with specific needs and
  assist them to form their self-help groups in collaboration with
  community-based structures.
• Organizing ways to create awareness
  on the needs of rehabilitation support and protection of the People with
  specific needs and other forms of vulnerability in the
  community.Ensuring clients to access simple Orthopaedic items according
  to the available local resources in coordination with the Protection
  Programme Officer and the whole CBR team.
• Training and support
  the CBR rehabilitation assistants/incentive workers (Orthopedic) to meet
  project objectives by liaising with them, coaching, mentoring,
  counseling, demonstrating, advising and facilitating.
• Identifying
  and implement ways to increase awareness of support to cases with
  Orthopaedic needs in the community and participate in organizing on job
  training/sessions to the community (caregivers/parents of people with
  specific needs) on the management of different types of disabilities
  through orthopaedic procedures.
• Ensuring that cases with
  orthopaedic needs are supported through a coordinated case management
  system with other sectors and create awareness on the needs that can be
  addressed through community mobilization.
• Working with other partners to ensure people with specific needs access required services within the response.
• Preparing
  timely activity plans (weekly and monthly) and submit to the Protection
  Programme Officer for review as required and ensure that project
  indicators are well tracked and analyzed to inform strategic decisions.
• Supporting other project activities assigned by the supervisor.

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Documentation and Reporting

• Document, monitor and report on work progress on a regular basis in the field, using the predefined monitoring tools.
• Report positive trends in programme implementation as well as the areas in need of improvement
• Ensure all People with specific needs data are kept confidentially and shared with the Programme team as appropriate

Program Logistics

• Assist in the identification of recreational and training items for people with specific needs and volunteers
• Develop lists of supplies needed for the Programmes and ensure safe delivery.

HelpAge Policies and Standard
The
incumbent will sign to the HelpAge protection policies and code of
conduct for working with older persons and ensure that all staff under
his/her supervision sign to and, abide by the same policies and
standards.

WORKING AND LIVING CONDITIONS:
This post
will be predominately based in field locations, with regular periods in
the main Kibondo office for planning and administrative purposes.
Conditions in the field sites are extremely basic and require a strong
sense of endurance and resilience.

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Qualifications, Competencies & Person specifications:

• A
  Degree of Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy or Diploma in
  Physiotherapy and its Equivalent. 1 year experience of working or
  dealing with pediatric cases, adult cases or working in CBR
  programmes.Excellent technical understanding of rehabilitation or
  Physiotherapy services.
• Experience of working with Older People.
• Able to coach, mentor and train staff to undertake CBR services.
• Good Computer knowledge
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Be able to prioritize tasks
• Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Able to operate in extremely harsh living and working environment
• Able to communicate both in English and Swahili languages.
• Candidates with other equivalent professional and experience are encouraged to apply.

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Personal Attributes
Honesty,
trustworthiness, integrity, respect to diversity, flexibility to work
extra hours and under pressure to deliver to tight deadlines.

How to Apply:
Interested
applicants should apply with a CV of not more than 2 pages and a cover
letter stating how they meet the key competencies by email to: syone.simon@helpage.org copy to tanzania.office@helpage.org

Applications should be sent not later than Friday 13th February 2023.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. This will be ongoing
recruitment and the right candidate will be contacted on a rolling
basis.
HelpAge International is an equal opportunity employer. Women are encouraged to apply