Minimum Requirements

• Grade 10
• Peer educators should be ex or current people who have used or injected drugs as they are a ‘peer’ and have therefore experienced the context, and challenges faced by PWID/PWUD
• Minimum 1 years’ work experience in the PWID Community or experience as a peer educator
• Able to read and write legibly in English
• Proficiency in isiXhosa,Afrikaans/ English and any South African language
• Clear criminal record

Duties and Responsibilities

• Distribution of harm reduction packs and safer sex commodities
• Safely collecting used injecting equipment in sharps bins from outreach areas and communities
• Provide accurate health information to PWID/PWUD on harm reduction and safe injecting practices, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, TB, SRH and human rights
• Link and or refer PWID/PWUD living with HIV or TB for treatment to the mobile nurse/ drop in centre or nearest health facility
• Ensure HIV negative PWID/PWUD are regularly tested and are encouraged to uptake PrEP as HIV prevention method.
• Promote psychological support, referral to social services and follow-up
• Recruit PWID/PWUD for Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) and complete eligibility criteria
• Identify women who inject drugs and provide dignity packs

Skills and Competencies

• Write and present effectively, adjusting to fit the audience and the message, to strongly convey the message
• Ability to solve employee related problems
• Deliver outstanding service that meets and exceeds customer expectations
• Build effective relationships with all people; up, down, sideways, inside and outside the organisation
• Engage everything with drive and energy for a bottom line; not afraid to initiate action before all the facts are known and drive to finish everything he/she starts