Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 05 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
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

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

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Job application procedure
• Applications in the form of a cover letter and CV must be submitted to Vacancy12@righttocare.org 
• All applicants are required to complete an online competency assessment accessible using this link – https://my.assessio.com/right-to-care-clinical-officer–registered-nursemi 
• Only applicants that complete the two steps above will be considered.

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