Prevention Of Mother To Child Transmission Improvement Specialist at The Center for International Health, Education and Biosecurity (CIHEB)

Job Summary:

The overall function of this position is to ensure that pregnant and lactating women and their infants receive sustainable, high quality and client focused Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, HIV exposed infants receive recommended follow up and HIV infected children receive Pediatric HIV services as per the National guidance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Organize and oversee capacity building activities for health providers and case managers working within MNCH clinics through trainings, update sessions.
• Providing supportive supervision, mentorship and on the job training for all the clinical staff at USAID Stawisha Pwani supported health facilities.
• Work to improve patient management through identifying and improving client flow systems, data capture, clinical management, clinical recording, referral to laboratory and pharmacy and preventing loses to follow for Pregnant women and children.
• Oversee eligibility testing amongst pregnant and lactating women in supported health facilities in line with the elimination agenda.
• Support facilities to ensure good client monitoring and viral suppression among pregnant and breastfeeding women.
• Institutionalize continuous quality improvement systems for, continuity of care and patient care improvement.
• Develop and strengthen adherence and retention Innovations and evidence-based interventions through staff mentorship and follow-up and document best practices.
• Develops and distributes appropriate job aides, educational material, and reporting tools for eMTCT support health facility staff and counselors.
• Support collection, collation, and review of critical PMTCT data, indicators and activities on a monthly and quarterly basis detailing proposed objectives and activities for PMTCT/Pediatric HIV at USAID Stawisha Pwani supported facilities.
• To represent the Program and PMTCT Advisor in technical working groups at sub-county and county levels when called upon.
• Represent the organization at stakeholder meetings within their supported areas of work
• Evaluate outcomes of PMTCT related activities and shares recommendations for program improvement.

Skills and Experience:

• MD or MBBS required with significant field experience in nursing and/or community-based care of persons living with HIV/AIDS.
• Experience in Health Care programming at the field level and providing technical assistance to partner organizations knowledge and experience of ART programmatic and technical issues highly desired.
• Program management experience and experience in a supervisory role is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with Kenya HIV Quality Improvement Framework.
• NASCOP ToT on PMTCT/ART related field is an added Training in PMTCT and Adult/Pediatric ART is an added advantage
• Five (5) years’ experience providing and/or overseeing PMTCT services at facility and sub-county/County level
• Good report writing skills and data use to inform programming.