| | HIV-NCD Integration Clinical Coordinator, Dignitas International
Dignitas International (DI), medical and research organization has supported care for people with HIV related conditions in the Malawi’s South East Zone (SEZ) of Malawi since 2004. Since 2010, with the support of USAID Malawi and working with the Ministry of Health (MoH), DI has greatly expanded quality HIV testing, care and treatment for people with HIV and related conditions throughout SEZ through HIV-focused health system strengthening activities support. DI has been engaged in pursuing opportunities to sustain and continue the project beyond its current project cycle hence, it has been able to secure probable funding for a follow-on project entitled, “Innovative HIV Services for Malawi’s Achievement Of 90-90-90”, funded by USAID through a regional funding mechanism called EQUIP.
HIV-NCD Integration Clinical Coordinator
Reporting to: Dignitas Clinical Consultant
The job purpose of the NCD —HIV Integration Clinical Coordinator is to provide technical support to the District hospital ART Clinical Officers and health center ART Clinical officers and nurses to provide integrated care to HIV and NCD services to clients in the HIV clinic. He/she will be responsible for the training and mentoring the health care workers on HIV-NCD integrated care. As the number of facilities offering integrated NCD HIV care increase, the need has arisen for a dedicated clinician to oversee this scale up, do training, mentoring to ensure quality of implementation and evaluation.
Duties and Responsibilities
Planning /implementing tasks:
Provide training in integrated NCD-HIV to scale up sites
Clinical mentoring at scale up sites to ensure adherence to screening and treatment protocols
Working with scale up site staff to develop systems of care that support integrated disease screening and treatment
Monitoring of NCD-HIV documentation to ensure data quality for program evaluation
Assistance in ensuring accurate ordering of quantities of anti-hypertensive and diabetic drugs
Ensure an uninterrupted service delivery in the assigned health facilities by making sure that HIV —NCD commodities are readily available in all facilities we support
Monitoring & Evaluation/reporting tasks:
Assist the district health sector HIV coordinator in monitoring of the HIV-NCD program, through baseline collection of HIV-NCD related data, monitoring of results and use of data for decision-making at district level and at the level where data are collected
Develop monthly and quarterly targets and indicators and report against those targets Work directly with district health sector HIV coordinator to assess barriers, which undermine district level performance, and identify interventions to be implemented to improve capacity and achieve quality results
Qualifications
Clinical Officer with 3 years’ experience in clinical work.
Certified and in good standing with professional body.
Experience in general mentoring and supervision.
HIV mentoring and supervision would be an advantage
Knowledge of NCD program and an experience as a trainer would be an advantage
HOW TO APPLY
Qualified applicants should send resume and detailed cover letter, referencing the position title in the subject by 27th May 2017 to: Human Resource and Admin Managerzombahr@dignitasinternational.org.
Location: Zomba
Employment Type: Full time
Salary: N/A
Job deadline: 2017-05-27
Company: Dignitas International | | | |
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