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Date Posted: Saturday, April 02, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Retention Specialist

Job Summary:
The Retention Specialist will work with the County Health Management Team to provide guidance related to continuity of care, patient retention strategies and adherence support.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement a capacity-building and systems-strengthening plan for continuity of care, patient retention, and adherence support, in close collaboration with key partners.
• Institutionalize continuous quality improvement systems for continuity of care, patient retention, and adherence support.
• Examine retention strategies, and adherence support mechanisms and lead the development of strategies to address findings.
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of defaulter management and patient tracking systems at supported health facilities.
• Lead the implementation of training and continuous professional development systems for Adherence counselors and lay health workers (CHWs, peer educators, etc.) involved in continuity of care and adherence support, and CHMT members.
• Evaluate and adapt Community Strategy implementation for the context of Nairobi County.
• Develop and distributes appropriate job aides and educational material for treatment support staff and counselors.
• Represent the organization at stakeholder meetings.
• Support staff through onsite mentorship and operations discussions.
• Evaluate outcomes of capacity-building activities and shares recommendations.

Skills and Experience:
• Diploma in Psychological Counselling, Social Sciences, Nursing, Clinical Medicine, or related field
• Bachelor’s Degree is an added advantage
• Training in adherence Counselling
• NASCOP T.o.T is an added advantage
• Five (5) years’ experience providing and/or overseeing adherence and retention services
• Excellent interpersonal communication.
• Good report writing skills

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Associate 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 10th April 2022. Applicants are advised to include the title “RETENTION SPECIALIST” on the subject line.
The Center for International Health, Education, and Biosecurity (Ciheb) — Kenya is an equal opportunity employer.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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