HIV Clinical Services Consultants Jobs at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
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especially among the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, by
closing the gap between knowledge and action in
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and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and
action in public health.
Job Title: HIV Clinical Services Consultants
Objectives:
The
key objective for the short-term technical assistance is to support the
delivery of sustainable HIV/AID care, and treatment services in
supported hospital facilities. This include but not limited to
strengthening leadership and management capacity of the hospital
management committee (HMC)/Quality improvement team (QIT) with a focus
on the facility leadership taking on more active role in the delivery
of services to PLHIV.
Specific Responsibilities
- Support the Hospital management committee (HMC) to develop a monthly meeting schedule for hospital program review
- Support the use of SIMS tools for the conduct of unit specific supportive supervision
- In collaboration with hospital management committee conduct periodic orientation on the use of SIMS tool
- Support capacity building of facility staff through CMEs to enhance knowledge based of service provision with emphasis on
- Institutionalizing QIT and conduct of monthly meetings in the facility
- Develop capacity of champions
(retention, tracking and quality improvement) in the facility targeting
the CMD or his designate to sustain these service delivery initiative
- Identify and build capacity of QI lead to mentor on continuous
process improvement (client flow, treatment initiations, adherence
counselling, TB/HIV collaboration and treatment failure review etcetera)
to enhance service delivery in the facility
- Empower ART focal and M&E focal person to constantly review data
with facility staff during QIT meeting including the use of data for
decision making
- Empower and transfer reporting and sharing of weekly, monthly and quarterly program activities to the ART focal person
- Sustain the use of site monitoring through improvement tools (SIMS)
in supported facility including mentoring facility staff on its use for
periodic self-assessment
- Support the HTC hospital designate to ensure HTC transition
activities are in line with PEPFAR-MSH plans of keeping enrolment into
care and treatment at maintenance level. Where applicable
- Promote targeted testing at the GOPD or Designate facility Heart to Heart centre
- Promote the use of testing eligibility checklist for assessing patients eligibility for testing
- Support transitioning of established and functional provider
initiated testing and counselling points to hospital management (Staff)
- Provide TA for the documentation of testing and counselling of
patients in the facility from non MSH supported testing points (PITC
points excluding ANC, TB, Paediatric ward, GOPD or facility H to H
centre)
- Support the documentation of positive clients PITC points transitioned to the hospital facility
- Ensure regular supply of test kits and testing of patients at the ANC, TB units and paediatric ward
- Build capacity of ART focal person to lead periodic chart reviews in
collaboration with the QIT members for all enrolled patients with a
view of assessing quality of care- treatment eligibility evaluation,
treatment failure assessment, treatment adherence for patients, patients
staging etcetera
- Build capacity of ART focal person to support TB screen of HIV
positive patients (new and old clients) in congregate settings (PICT
points, Adherence counselling rooms and triage units, consulting rooms,
PMTCT setting) and documented in the appropriate tools
- Build capacity of PMTCT focal person to continue to support
decentralization of ART services to PMTCT service delivery points
(ensuring continuous supply of ARVs to ANC service points)
- Build capacity of thematic focal
leads to Organize periodic CME to support capacity building of HCWs on
HIV/AIDs care and support PMTCT and Collaborative TB/HIV activities
- Work closely with ART focal persons to improve facility treatment
retention with emphasis on treatment cohort to be reported at end of
MSH current physical year
- Provide TA for the tracking of patients who commenced treatment among this cohort and ensure they are returned to care
- Provide TA for setting up of a functional adherence and PHDP unit in the facility
- Provide TA for refining of clinic flow to ensure patients receive
adherence counselling at each hospital encounter before collection of
prescribed medication at the pharmacy unit
- Provide TA for the use of treatment calendar at the adherence
counselling and records unit for the purpose of tracking of treatment
cohort specified above
- Monitor the implementation of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) in the facility
Deliverables:
- Bi- weekly update report to the STL, Clinical Care Specialist on assigned tasks using outlined format below:
Qualitative reporting
- QI meeting hosting (funding) transited to the facility leadership within the next one month
- Establish functional adherence unit in supported facility
- Refined clinic flow to optimize clinic adherence intervention in supported facilties within the next one month
- Transition of support group activity to the facility leadership through engagement of NEPWAN
- Compile bi-weekly narrative report in line with conducted activities as specified in the TOR including the Quality improvement team meetings with supportive data
- Compile report monthly on achievements to supervising technical staff
- Provide a comprehensive report at the end of the period reflecting
task that were assigned and carried out including findings and
recommendations
Qualifications
Required qualifications:
- The clinical officer will be a highly skilled clinician with at
least 2 years of clinical work experience in a busy ART treatment
centre.
- S/he will have thorough knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and
treatment programs in Nigeria including current Knowledge in the field
of HIV programming.
- Registered with the relevant professional bodies (Nigeria Medical and Dental Council).
How to Apply
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