HTS Supervisor at University of Maryland1

The HTS Supervisor will provide direct supervision to HTS Counselors who provide HIV testing services and linkage of HIV infected clients to care in PACT Endeleza supported facilities. S/he will oversee quality of implementation of HTC services in all health service delivery points

Key responsibilities

• Enhance the provision of quality HTS services by HTS service counselors in all service delivery points as per Kenya HTS national guidelines leading to HIV testing of 100% of eligible facility attendants.
• Strengthen referral and enrollment of all clients who test HIV positive in HIV care resulting on 95% of clients linked to HIV care
• Coordinate defaulter tracing of pre-enrollment clients not linked to care in supported facilities
• Ensure optimization in testing of elicited contacts in assisted partner notification services
• Coordinate and participate community targeted testing as appropriate
• Coordinate monthly counselor testing observed sessions
• Participate in counselor supervision sessions/meeting to handle counselors’ burn out issues
• Coordinate HTS data collection and reporting from allocated facilities as per PACT Endeleza timelines
• Ensure maintenance of well-documented HTC registers and HTC wall charts in allocated sites