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5 Feb 2024
Clinical Officer at Right to Care Zambia
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- Company: Right to Care Zambia
- Location: Zambia
- State: Zambia
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job category: Healthcare/Medical Jobs in Zambia - Right to Care Jobs in Zambia
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
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.