Vacancy title:
Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Nursing Officer
Jobs at:
Lusaka Provincial Health OfficeDeadline of this Job:
Monday, November 13 2023
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 31 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose:
• To coordinate, supervise and undertake the provision of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in order to facilitate provision of quality HIV services.
Main Responsibilities
• Ensures efficient management of nursing care services in order to improve and sustain quality patient care.
• Interprets and implements effectively policies, regulations and procedures in order to ensure compliance with set standards and targets.
• Supervises timely updating and maintenance of patients’ records in order to facilitate efficient storage and retrieval of information
• Collects, maintains and supervises timely writing of reports in order to facilitate decision making
• Undertakes regularly analysis of site level performance in order to assess the impact of HIV/TB clinical care services and implement appropriate interventions
• undertakes effectively the formulation, implementation and review of HIV/TB action plans in order to ensure quality clinical care health services
• Undertakes effectively the preparation of the budgets to facilitate acquisition of financial resources in order to implement planned activities
• Undertakes regularly the maintenance and updating of the HIV/TB database, in order to facilitate accessibility of information, generation of reports and decision making
• Undertakes effectively monitoring, evaluation of HIV/TB clinical care services in the district and coordinates ECHO sessions in order to facilitate appropriate interventions.
• Undertakes effectively performance assessment and quality assurance/improvement for public health in order to ensure adherence to set standards and improve service delivery
• Undertakes effectively the provision of primary and secondary prevention programmes including VMMC, CaCx, Adolescents, Key Populations, etc in order to control new infections and avoid recurrence of infections
• Supervises effectively the utilization of human, financial and other resources in order to facilitate achievement of set objectives.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Required Skills and Experience
• Grade Twelve (12) School Certificate with Five (5) Credits or better including Mathematics, Science and English;
• BSc in Nursing
• Certificate in HIV/ART/PMTCT Adult and Paediatric care
• Basic training in Smartcare
• Experience with GRZ/PEPFAR funded projects will be an added advantage;
• Good proficiency in oral and written English; and
• Good computer skills, particularly in Microsoft Office;
• Must have high level of confidentiality and Integrity; Trustworthy and Honest
Job Experience: No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months:
Level of Education: Professional Certificate
Job application procedure
• Interested candidates meeting the above stated qualifications and attributes are required to submit their applications with the following documents; Curriculum Vitae with Three (3) traceable Referees, Academic and Professional Qualifications to the address below by 3rd November, 2023.
• The Provincial Health Director
• Lusaka Provincial Health Office
• Plot Number 3 Saise Road, Longacres
• P.O. Box 32573
• LUSAKA
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