County Mentor – Prevention, at Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS)

County Mentor – Prevention: CHS INSTITUTE /HR/CM/ 001/ 2022  

Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Program Officer, the County Mentor, will be responsible for on-site mentoring and implementation of HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment activities in Tier 2, 3 and 4 health facilities. H/she will provide technical advice and support to health care workers in the implementation of HIV services (HTS, linkage, prevention, care and treatment, adherence and retention, TB/HIV, and PMTCT) to ensure that patients receive the full complement of prevention, treatment and care in accordance to GoK/MoH and other applicable standards. They will provide a 100% level of effort.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Provide technical support to HTS providers, health workers (doctors, clinical officers, nurses, counsellors, laboratory and pharmacy staff) in all implementation aspects of HIV services (HTS, linkage, prevention, care and treatment, adherence and retention, TB/HIV, and PMTCT) to ensure that patients receive the full complement of prevention, treatment and care in accordance to National HIV treatment guidelines and other applicable standards
2. Oversee the planning and implementation of internal and external quality assurance (QA) for HIV testing services at select facilities
3. Support and mentor peer educators to provide health talks, peer to peer counselling, PHDP messages, formation of facility and community psychosocial groups.
4. Ensure timely clinical and laboratory monitoring of patients on treatment by implementing viral load standard operating procedure and timely intervention for patients with suspected treatment failure.
5. Mentors and support patients with low level and high viral loads (LLV and HVL). Ensure timely interventions: enhanced adherence counselling, filling the Mowrisky 8 and elicitation of barriers, and proper EAC viral load register documentation.
6. Building the skills and knowledge of the targeted clinical staff on HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, and PMTCT through on the job mentorship, case reviews, CMEs and participation in the multi-disciplinary team meetings, County and Lakati TWG meetings
7. Mentor frontline health care workers to appropriately document service delivered to clients in the requisite NASCOP/MOH recommended tools.
8. Champion the differentiated service delivery model of care in CHS supported facilities
9. Participating in joint supportive supervision of CHS-supported HIV prevention, care and treatment activities in assigned sites with County and Sub-County level MoH staff
10. Assist in program monitoring and evaluation with reporting through national HMIS tools and other tools in use by CHS and its funding partners through mentorship of facility staff on proper documentation
11. Oversee stringent follow-up care of PMTCT clients and HIV exposed infants in assigned sites and ensure that HIV exposed infants exit the program as healthy infants.
12. To provide ongoing supervision of CHS-supported HIV prevention, care and treatment activities in assigned sites, including scheduled joint supportive supervision with County and Sub-County level MoH staff
13. Routinely monitor program quality through QI approaches as well as elements of operations research, including identification and documentation of ‘best practices to ensure high-quality HIV/AIDS service provision
14. Timely preparation and submission of activity budgets, work plans, reports and other technical papers
15. Providing mentorship and support to health care facilities for implementation of continuous quality improvement, to address testing, identification, linkage, adherence, and retention performance gaps
16. Identifying, documenting and sharing key lessons learnt on prevention, care and treatment activities from health facilities and the community

Person Specification

1. A Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Medicine, Nursing, Health Systems Management, Public health, Social sciences or other health-related course
2. A Diploma/Higher National Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Surgery or Nursing from a recognized institution
3. At least three years’ experience in implementing HIV programs
4. Experience in mentorship and training
5. Training in HTS, HIV/AIDS, TB comprehensive care and support
6. Trainer of trainers in HIV management
7. Advanced training in antiretroviral management is an added advantage
8. Good knowledge of practical delivery of HIV/AIDS clinical care and ART, including patient-centered management and family support
9. Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work well with others and to develop and maintain relationships
10. Ability to identify problems, design interventions and oversee their implementation
11. Energetic, self-motivated and able to work independently
12. Good use of MS Office packages and office automation solutions.