Project Officer Outreach – Community Health Work Eritrea & Ethiopia (Habesha) in Flanders and Brussels

Your tasks and challenges:  

• Build strong connections with people from Eritrea en Ethiopia;
• Build trust between the community and our respiratory health centres. You will become a key person between our nurses and those responsible, role models and members of the community, so that we get to know each other better and trust in our work grows;
• Make tuberculosis more discussable in the community;
• Motivate people with your background to persevere with the difficult treatment, by explaining it in their own language and customs, and providing psychological, social and care support. You will motivate them to participate in research into the spread of infection and in preventive treatment. You will also help to optimise participation in screening sessions. This may be done using a mobile screening unit on location.
• Establish contacts with specific initiatives by or for this target group, strengthen these and expand them to new points of contact.
• Build a close relationship with the community and regularly give accessible information sessions about tuberculosis, its treatment and our free services;
• Organise screening days in the communities, together with our nurses, and guide people through the screening process;
• Help people on their way to and during contact tracing and therapy;
• Help collect data to properly evaluate this project;
• Maintain and strengthen the network of humanitarian organisations (in Brussels and elsewhere) to provide free TB care to vulnerable people.