Job Title: Biomedical Service Provider (01)
Location: Msalala DC, Shinyanga
Contract duration: 8 months (Renewable)
Project Description:
SHDEPHA+
In partnership with FHI360,is implementing a five-year global project
funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Meeting
Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project is dedicated to
achieve and maintain HIV epidemic control. The project provides
strategic technical assistance (TA) and direct service delivery (DSD) to
break through barriers to 95-95-95 and promote self-reliant management
of national HIV programs by improving HIV case-finding, prevention, and
treatment programming. EpiC will be implementing an HIV service delivery
project among key and priority populations, adolescent girls and young
women (AGYW) which aims to reduce HIV infections in pursuit of reaching
95-95-95 goals. To achieve this goal, the program will support targeted
prevention and case finding strategies at community level among the
targeted populations.
Job Description
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Supervise and Works in collaboration with other members of mobile team (
regional and district authorities) to offer high quality HIV
counselling and testing ,ART ,PreP ,Family planning ,screening and
referral for STIs, TB ,Gender based violence, linkages ,HIV care and
treatment services to clients, More specifically, s/He will supervise
the clinical team to:
• Provide all EpiC Biomedical services in the assigned project areas
• Enroll clients into ART and PreP services including laboratory sample collection
• Identify opportunities for the program to increase demand ,efficient and quality of service delivery
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Participate in collection and reporting of Data as required by the
program and ensure proper clients record keeping and storage
• Ensure standard of care and conduct regular chart review
• Develop and maintain excellent relationship with government authorities
• Stay current in knowledge of HIV in general
The following are the preferred qualifications for the position:
• Must be a licensed nurse, nurse/midwife, clinical officer, assistant medical officer or medical officer in good standing.
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Experience working with populations at high risk for HIV, conducting
outreach testing, and/or in provider initiated counseling and testing,
and family planning services, desirable.
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Must be willing to be based in assigned district with extensive
(weekly) travel. Must be willing to work off and unusual hours. Travel
up to 60% of the time.
• Must be physically fit to assist with set up and break down of services in sites.
• Must demonstrate self-management (i.e. motivation, dealing with pressure, adaptability)
• Must be highly flexible
• Additional experience with PreP, ART, community counseling, mobile HTS, Family planning and GBV is desirable.
MODE OF APPLICATION:
Deadline: 12/2/2020.
