Letoya Xulu
Linkage Officer (HST)
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About
I am a dedicated, organised and methodical individual. I have good interpersonal skills. An excellent team worker and keen and very willing to learn and develop new skills, I am a reliable and dependable and often seek new responsibilities with a wide range of employment areas.
Experience
Facilitator at Department of Education (2008-01 – 2012-12)
Providing basic skills for adults in terms reading, writing and pronunciation of words
Campaign Agent at Health System Trust (2019-01 – 2023-12)
Assessing and providing counselling to people on chronic medication and those that stopped taking the medication.
Linkage Officer at Health System Trust (2023-01 – Present)
- Monitoring that patients collect their chronic medication and do not miss their dates for collection, drawing of blood samples to ensure that all is in order, capturing of stats and data to reconcile the change in Months of patients' attendance.
- Facilitate HIV status disclosure to partners/families on ART.
- Support and facilitate recruitment of index case contacts (partners/children) for HIV testing services.
- Facilitate enhanced adherence counselling, and support tracking and linkage to care, for all patients who have missed their appointments.
- Update patient files and provide these to the data capturer for entry into TIER.Net and the Demonstration Project database.
- Forge links between the HIV/TB programme and other programmers/services, e.g. Department of Social Development; non-governmental and community-based organisations.
Education
Grade 12 in High School – Kranskop (1998-12)