District TB/HIV Coordinator: DREAMS School-based HIV and Violence prevention (NIMART) Free State (Wits RHI)

Main purpose of the job:

• To coordinate and support the implementation of the School-based HIV and Violence prevention program, in order to ensure the delivery of quality services offered as part of a comprehensive package of care through mobile service delivery, and achievement of targets
• Providing clinical technical assistance and capacity building to the district implementing team, in line with Department of Health (DOH) requirements and key strategies

Location:

• Freestate (Lejweleputswa)

Key performance areas:

• Communicate, promote and support the implementation of the School-based HIV & GBV program within the district
• Ensure 3 monthly and weekly rosters are completed and submitted on time
• Provide program implementation guidance and clinical technical assistance to District team members to ensure delivery of program activities according to timelines
• Support program implementation to align with DIP action plans and compliance to important DOH and SIMS requirements
• Constant consultation and planning with the provincial manager and district teams to monitor progress on deliverables
• Review district implementation plan and other program documents for effective implementation of the program
• Contribute to developing, designing, and implementing Quality Improvement Approaches relevant to the districts needs and gaps
• Identify the needs of the program within the district and obtain the resources required
• Coordinate and troubleshoot program-related activities
• Establish and manage effective working relationships with key partners internally and externally including DBE, DOH, DSD, donors, and other partners
• Serve as a representative of the Schools project on both internal and external forums including partner meetings and working groups in the district
• Coordinate program activities with external agencies such as public health, NGO partners, regulatory bodies, donor monitoring, auditing agencies, and others as necessary
• Coordinate the submission of relevant reports in the districts as required or requested
• Management of district staff including providing supervision and support
• Conduct regular meetings with the District team and undertake regular site visits to ensure outputs are delivered
• Coach district team members to comply with the organization's policies
• Ensure each cadre of staff performing as per daily targets
• Perform and facilitate staff performance assessments
• Identify sub-standard performance and take necessary corrective action
• Attend to all staffing requirements and administration at the district level
• Promote harmony, teamwork, and sharing of information
• Conduct skills audit to identify training needs of district implementing staff
• Develop training plan based on a skills audit
• Identify the training needs of DOH, DBE, other staff, and stakeholders, and provide technical assistance where appropriate
• Liaise with the Clinical Technical Specialist, Capacity Building Manager and other Technical Leads to address identified training needs
• Provide both off-site and on the job training to facilitate skills transfer to internal staff
• Facilitate formal clinical training as required
• Conduct post-training evaluations to get feedback on the effectiveness of training
• Ensure all completed registers, assessments and evaluations are returned from courses and hard copies provided to the training administrator
• Participate in ongoing mentorship programs initiated by other WRHI stakeholders
• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and support to the district implementing team
• Monitor the quality of service delivery and where required, engage in quality improvement activities to improve quality of care through (and not limited) to the following
• Conduct a minimum of 50 chart reviews weekly to ensure the quality of documentation of services
• Conduct PN mentorship sessions initially weekly and then monthly and provide ongoing mentorship and coaching to ensure compliance and correct management of clients in keeping with guidelines
• Conduct HTS observations monthly with ongoing mentorship
• Review of HTS registers weekly to ensure compliance with National guidelines and Algorithm
• The complete monthly training and mentoring reports
• Complete at least 2 days of clinical work per month to maintain clinical skills
• Monitor program targets, and where required, engage in quality improvement activities to achieve projected targets
• Provide oversight for data quality of the nurses, in compliance with M&E reporting requirements
• Ensure program data collected on the field is correct and timeously reported to M&E
• Contribute to project reports on the clinical service delivery, as requested by project management
• Maintain close communication with the M&E team to ensure adequate and regular reporting
• Documenting lessons learned and success stories
• Contribute to the development of reports including best practices, technical publications other program documents as required
• Participate in monitoring activities mandated by the project management
• Monitor implementation of Pharmacy SOP – stock monitoring and generate monthly PrEP reports and commodities reports
• Monitor Compliance with monitoring and documenting of blood results on SRH tools and REDCAPP
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and demonstrates effective self-management
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
• Take ownership for driving own career development by participating in ongoing training and development activities such as conferences, workshops, etc.

Required minimum education and training:

• Relevant Nursing degree with education qualification
• Certified clinical (NIMART, APC/PC101, and HTS) mentor
• Nursing Management degree

Required minimum work experience:

• Minimum 5 years experience in public health and SRH, HIV prevention and management, with a focus on adolescents and young people
• Knowledge and experience to include: ART, PrEP and PEP initiation and management; HIV testing; and provision of sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, STI, and related services

Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:

• Certification in HIV Management (NIMART)
• Sound technical knowledge of PrEP, PEP, TB, GBV, and SRH service provision
• Knowledge of provincial and district health structures
• Experience working in a donor-funded organization/NGO or project-based environment
• Qualification or experience in training, mentoring, project management, team building, and quality improvement methodologies
• Knowledge of clinical systems and data management
• Exceptional organizational, administrative and effective communication skills together with working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Excel
• Ordered and systematic in approach to tasks
• Attention to detail
• Pro-active, able to exercise discretion and independent decision-making
• Able to prioritize own workload and work towards deadlines
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Able to speak other common African languages in the district
• Code 10 Valid SA drivers License Preferred
• Facilitation Skills

TO APPLY:

• Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
• Please Apply Online and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
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• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
• The closing date for all applications: 24 March 2022.
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
• Note WHC, in accordance with their Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
• PLEASE NOTE: Our Client, WHC - RHI, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.

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• AJ Personnel is only responsible for the advertising of the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
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