Program Officer, HTS & PrEP at Migori County Public Service Board

REF/MCPSB/335/2022

Job Summary

The overall function of this position is to ensure implementation of high quality, efficient and effective HIV Testing Services in supported health facilities. He/ She is responsible for ensuring efficient eligibility screening process, testing of all eligible persons who provide consent, immediate linkage of all persons who test positive to treatment, linkage of HIV negative individuals to appropriate prevention services and screening of persons seeking HIV services for TB, Intimate Partner Violence, risks for HIV acquisition, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision). The incumbent will also be responsible for ensuring proper eligibility screening for PrEP, initiation of eligible persons on PrEP as well as retention. In addition, He/ She will provide mentorship to site level staff, ensure supervision and implementation of services that are aligned to MoH and CDC policy guidelines, ensure planning and execution of work– plan towards ensuring achievement of set targets and objectives.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Organize and oversee effective and efficient implementation of HIV Testing and Services (HTS) and PrEP services in all relevant service delivery points and supported health facilities.
• To provide training, mentorship, and supervision of HTS and PrEP providers at the selected facilities
• Oversee establishment of efficient patient workflow, eligibility testing amongst children, adolescents, and adults; testing of all eligible persons and linkage of all HIV positive person to treatment as well as optimum provision of PrEP in all supported programs and health facilities in line with MoH guidelines
• Support efficient and effective strategies that ensure immediate linkage to treatment
• Oversee screening of persons seeking HIV testing for TB, IPV, PrEP, PEP and VMMC, and link all those that are eligible to appropriate services
• Implement internal and external quality assurance measures for HIV testing services, at selected health facilities such as proficiency testing (PT), observed practice and HIV Rapid Testing Continuous Quality Improvement (RTCQI)
• Support counselling supervision sessions for HTS providers as recommended by MoH
• Support scale up and implementation of HIV testing as recommended and guided
• Support optimum implementation of recommended service delivery digital/ electronic platforms e.g., e-HTS
• Institutionalize continuous quality improvement systems for HIV testing services and PrEP towards improvement of performance in low performance indicators/ services and quality.
• Support accurate documentation, data collection, collation, review, and accurate reporting on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis as may be guided or required.
• Evaluate outcomes of e-HTS and PrEP related activities and shares recommendations for program improvement
• Timely preparation and submission of activity budgets, work plans, reports, and other technical papers
• Represent the project team at technical/stakeholder forums with the county and national government, the donor institutions and other implementing partners on laboratory related matters.
• Support any other work–related responsibilities as may be assigned by the program manager

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Clinical Medicine or bachelor’s degree in Nursing
• Active/ current registration with professional body.
• Training on HTS and by NASCOP or equivalent professional body
• Very good knowledge of HIV testing guidelines
• At least three (3) years’ experience in providing and/or overseeing HIV Testing services and/ or PrEP or other HIV services at facility and County/Sub-County Level
• Good report writing skills and ability to use data to inform programming.
• Good communication skills, written and verbal, in English and Kiswahili languages.
• Proficiency in Microsoft office application including Word, Excel, PowerPoint