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Occupational Certificate: Health Promotion Officer

Only Face to Face option available

The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to:

  • Carry out basic assessments of communities, households groups and individuals.
  • Provide basic health education and referrals for a wide range of services.
  • Support and assist in navigating the health and social services system.

Course Information

Duration: 24 Months

Admission Requirements: NQF Level 1 or equivalent competences in Mathematical Literacy and Communications.

NQF Level: 3

Credits: 163

 

Benefits to study this field:

  • The roles of Community Health Workers (CHW) (as part of the PHC outreach teams) will include:
  • Conducting community, household and individual health assessments and identifying health needs and risks (actual and potential) and facilitating the family or an individual to seek the appropriate health service.
  • Promoting the health of the households and the individuals within these households.
  • Referring persons for further assessment and testing after performing simple basic screening.
  • Providing limited, simple health interventions in a household (e.g. basic first aid, oral rehydration and any other basic intervention that she or he is trained to provide).
  • Providing psychosocial support and managing interventions such as treatment defaulter tracing and adherence support.