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5 Feb 2024

Clinical Officer at Right to Care Zambia

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Job Description


QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:

  • Grade 12 Certificate
  • Diploma in Clinical Medical Sciences with a reputable institution with 3 years working experience
  • Trained in advanced ART Management
  • Trained in PMTCT and EID services
  • Trained in HIV Counselling, testing and ART Adherence
  • Trained in HIV Paediatric treatment, support, and care services.
  • Experience working in ART management at facility and Community levels respectively, with broad understanding of the collaborative aspect of community vs Facility leverages
  • Trained in Primary Health Care(PHC)  [AM1] and ART health care systems and community-based health programming for HIV
  • Training certificate in Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision [AM2] Surgical Skills
  • Training certificate in Cervical Cancer screening and management[AM3]  using HPV and VIA methods
  • Member of Health Professionals [AM4] Council of Zambia (HPCZ)

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:

  • Degree in Clinical Medicine
  • Prior experience working in HIV Management/Control
  • 4 years’ experience as a Clinical Officer General in a Community health/Hospital setting
  • Understanding of Lab baselines and investigations such as VL cascade etc.
  • Knowledge on various ART related documentation such as TPT, DSD models, SVS, MMSD, HIVST, PrEP, PEP etc
  •   Health care service delivery background

TECHNICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

  • Customer Orientation
  • Good Interpersonal skills
  • Good time management skills and ability to determine priorities
  • Professional Ethics
  • Counselling skills

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

  • Implement targeted, high yield testing strategies
  • Initiate 95 percent of those who newly test positive through rapid initiation protocols at the facility and in the community
  • Monitor VL suppression rates, scale up VL testing services, including increasing testing capacity, demand creation, specimen transport, and result utilization
  • Provision of Nutrition Assessment & Counselling (NACS) to the eligible clients to improve adherence, retention and viral load suppression.
  • Provide age-band targeted VMMC to avert new infections and reduce the spread of HIV
  • Implement PrEP among high-risk key and priority populations.
  • Provide Cervical Cancer screening to all the eligible women in the facilities
  • Implement differentiated service delivery (DSD) models to improve adherence, retention, and ultimately viral suppression
  • Conduct quality control projects and improvement every month to improve quality care to clients
  • Ensure data quality control quantitative through timely input of data
  • Submission of reports on respective organisation platforms requiring your monitoring and reporting input
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Method of Application

Applications in the form of a cover letter and CV must be submitted to [email protected]

All applicants are required to complete an online competency assessment accessible using this link – https://my.assessio.com/right-to-care-clinical-officer–registered-nursemiOnly applicants that complete the two steps above will be considered.




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