Vacancy title:
HIV Retention Officers
Jobs at:
The Center for International Health, Education and Biosecurity (CIHEB)Deadline of this Job:
05 August 2022
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Examine retention strategies, and adherence support mechanisms and participate in the development of strategies to address findings.
• Support facilities to initiate and monitor continuous quality improvement projects for continuity of care, patient retention, and adherence support.
• Ensure that the program case management model is implemented with fidelity.
• Ensure follow-up and retention of priority clients (new clients, transfer in, return to care, high VL, AGYW, GBV, PBFW, and children.
• Supervise and mentor facility adherence officers, peer educators on strategies on continuity of care.
• Ensure that a list of daily appointments, missed opportunities are generated and clients followed up to ensure less than 2% missed appointments.
• Ensure complete documentation of continuity of care tools (registers, FMATT etc).
• Ensure adoption of the Community Strategy implementation for the context of Nairobi County.
• Distributes appropriate job aides, tools and educational material for treatment support staff and counselors.
• Ensure all facilities are implementing DSD and monitoring clients on facility and community DSD.
• Provide daily/weekly/monthly/ quarterly updates to the retention specialist on daily/weekly activities and identify challenges so that they are addressed on time.
• Participate in performance monitoring reviews of facility adherence officers.
Qualifications and Required Skills:
• Diploma in Psychological Counselling, Social Sciences, or a related field
• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychological counselling, Social sciences is an added advantage
• Training in Adherence Counselling
• Three (3) years’ experience in HIV patient retention at facility level
• Excellent interpersonal communication.
• Good report writing skills
• Good communication skills
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job application procedure
Kindly send your application that includes a cover letter and an updated CV including names of three professional referees to CIHEBKENYA_Recruitment@cihebkenya.org on or before 5th August 2022. Applicants are advised to include the title on the subject line.
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