Summary
Date Posted: Monday, August 21 2023, 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 PHC and ART health care systems and community-based health programming for HIV
• Training certificate in Male Circumcision Surgical Skills
• Training certificate in Cervical Cancer screening and management
• Member of Health Professions 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

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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_luapula_zm   
• Only applicants that complete the two steps above will be considered.

• Disclaimer
By applying for the above-mentioned position, you consent to Right to Care to conduct qualification, ID, criminal and reference checks (internal and external) which forms part of the Company’s recruitment policy and procedure. Should you not receive a response to your application from Right to Care within one month of this advert being placed, kindly consider your application as being unsuccessful.
• Applicants are required to complete all screening assessment questions and completion of competency assessment using the link provided above for the application of this position to be complete. Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process. Right to Care reserves the right to withdraw the vacancy at any time for whatever reason.
• Right to Care is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
• Right to Care Zambia is aware of fraudulent activities by certain individuals claiming to be representatives of the organization.
• Be advised that Right to Care does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process, and as such Right to Care Zambia assumes no responsibility for any announcements or activities by such individuals or entities.

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