Consultant Care and Treatment Specialist

Job Overview

• The Consultant Care and Treatment Specialist will support service delivery and achieve favorable health outcomes for patients.
• S/he will be responsible for optimal performance across key prevention and treatment indicators and other deliverables related to the assigned portfolio.
• S/he will work collaboratively with the Care and Treatment Advisor to provide technical support and oversight to supported health facilities tailored to ensure that downstream implementation is in tandem with our collective project goals while also ensuring strict alignment with operational guidelines and policy.

Background

• CCCRN is a non-profit organization that promotes best practices in healthcare service delivery, medical training, and research using locally adapted models of health systems strengthening. We are committed to achieving sustainable impact in the communities we serve, and our technical project staff play a crucial role in driving quality improvement initiatives across our projects.

Scope of Work

• Supports the STA Care &Treatment in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the HIV/AIDS care and treatment component of the project.
• Support in the achievement of technical and operational deliverables.
• Support the provision of clinical quality assurance for the delivery of HAT services across project components.
• Engage with project partners to provide clinical guidance on HIV/AIDS/TB case management.
• Ensure that HIV prevention and treatment activities are culturally appropriate and are carried out with community involvement, using participatory methods.
• Conduct post-training follow-up of the trained service providers to provide onsite individualized mentoring support to reinforce skills learned at the initial training.
• Conduct regular supportive supervision visits to facilities to identify gaps in program focus areas service delivery and to rectify them with the help of staff and health officials at the facility, and state level to improve the quality of care.
• In collaboration with the M&E Specialist, facilitate collection of data at baseline and periodic intervals and help to collate, analyze, and interpret the data collected. Help facility staff make decisions for quality improvement based on the data.
• Keep up to date on clinical approaches and programmatic priorities.
• Provide technical assistance to local partner organizations for HAT service delivery, training, quality of care improvement, and other interventions as defined by the project.
• Coordinate community DSD implementation around and within the supported health facilities including community ARV pick-upcentres.
• Provide needed technical support and oversight to all volunteers (case managers, CMC, etc) across the supported health facilities.
• Provide support to health facilities to institutionalize the use of data for decision-making across sites including take-off of the daily data review across health facilities.
• Provide needed technical guidance, support, motivation and drive toward meeting daily, weekly and monthly targets across key performance indicators.
• Deploy job aids, national guidelines, IEC materials (as available within the project) to support sites and provide support tailored to promoting the use of these materials to improve the quality of healthcare services delivery.

Qualifications

• Medical Degree (MB.BS/MBChB/MD) or BSc Nursing
• Possession of MPH is an added advantage
• Minimum of 4 yearsof progressive clinical experience in HAT service delivery in PEPFAR funded program

Abilities:

• Good clinical acumen in HIV/AIDS/TB case management with technical experience in HIV prevention, counseling, testing, and PMTCT.
• Familiarity with standard care and treatment guidelines and PEPFAR indicators
• Ability to mentor clinical facility staff on care and treatment approaches

Skills:

• Excellent oral and report writing and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to write high-quality scientific/management documents
• Excellent collaboration and partnering skills in a teamwork environment.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office for documenting and reporting
• Proficient use of data management and analytic tools.