HIV Service Lead at Kendu Adventist Hospital

Qualifications

• Minimum of Diploma in Clinical Medicine & Surgery, or Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing
• Must be registered with Clinical Officers Council or Nursing Council of Kenya.
• Must have served for at least 3 years in a leadership capacity especially on the HIV/AIDS programs.
• Must have at least five years working experience especially in the field of HIV/AIDS

Essential Attributes:

• Should be able to run a program effectively with minimal supervision.
• Should be a proactive team player.
• Should be able to provide stigma free and non-discriminatory services and sensitive to issues surrounding HIV/AIDS

Roles and Responsibilities

• To formulate weekly work plans with targets on New HIV Positives, New patients on TX, Current patients on TX,TB Stat, Viral Suppression, activity funding flow and M & E.
• To actively supervise and coordinate implementation of PI roadmap and ultimate take full responsibility in program performance and outcomes.
• To compile accurate and timely weekly reports from the eight thematic areas as outlined above and submit to the SPCO copied to Activity Managers.
• To ensure timely sample transportation/ networking (VLs & gene Xperts) with timely turnaround times/follow-up for results for enhancing good clinical decision making outcomes.
• Playing a leading role in mentorship of all program components and mainstreaming indicators monitoring and evaluation.
• Clerking patients/ triaging of patients and actively working with longitudinal officers to ensure timely 100% linkage of HIV Positive patients, treatment initiation, viral suppression and patient retention.
• Preparing programmatic performance for regional weekly and monthly dashboards linking outcomes with resource utilization.
• Liaising and collaborating with respective sub-counties and counties to showcase program performance and impact to the county health indicators.