Job Description

Main purpose of the job:

• To support the 90-90-90 strategy at a hospital level. To implement quality improvement programmes within the hospital to improve performance towards the CDC and DoH targets for HAST programmes

Location:

• Pretoria - Tshwane

Key performance areas:

• Screening all women presenting in labour, maternity and post-natal areas for HIV status and offering HTS wherever possible
• To update patient personal details to ensure successful tracing
• Follow up on patients for HTS and VL suppression in other service points, e.g. high-risk maternity wards, post-natal units and those undergone emergency caesarean sections
• Screen all HIV-exposed infants and children admitted in the unit to ensure age-appropriate HIV tests are conducted and initiated to ART
• Improve the quality of data collected on blood requisition forms for infants and children for ease of follow-up and tracking
• Facilitate processes to trace HIV+ infants into HIV care to ensure ART initiation as soon as possible
• Identify and refer infants and mothers with ART failure or complications
• Support counsellors in the management of adherence issues in patients
• Review difficult cases with the RHI DDA and DoH staff
• Facilitate and follow up services such as down- and up-referrals following the District Referral Policy
• Share and discuss SOPs that will improve early infant diagnosis in hospitals and clinics
• Identify and refer patients with HIV and other concomitant diseases
• In conjunction with the clinical team, implement CCMT programmes within the hospital
• Implement the programme area in HTS and non-clinical prevention such as testing for HIV in TB patients, FP and STI, condom distribution, male circumcision and pre- and post-treatment adherence
• Review challenges and achievements
• Track changes made that lead to improved outcome measures at the hospital level
• Compile and disseminate monthly reports to the Programme Manager-Hospitals
• Use of waiting on ART lists and NHLS RfA reports to inform targeted interventions such as ART initiation and specialized support
• Transfer quality improvement skills and methodology to clinic counterparts and identify gaps in knowledge
• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, feedback, and support. To Wits RHI and DoH staff
• Participate in ongoing mentorship programmes initiated by other WRHI stakeholders
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and demonstrate effective self-management
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
• Take ownership of driving your career development by participating in ongoing training and development activities such as conferences, workshops, etc.

Required minimum education and training:

• Enrolled Nursing Qualification

Required minimum work experience:

• Minimum 2 years experience in Public Health

Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities:

• Certification/experience in HIV Care and Treatment processes
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Ordered and systematic in approach to tasks
• Attention to detail
• Pro-active, able to exercise discretion and independent decision-making
• Able to prioritize own workload and work towards deadlines
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Able to speak other local languages

Demands of the job:

• May be required to travel from time to time
• Must be contactable after working hours
• May be required to work at sites that are under-resourced and operate in a highly pressurized environment

TO APPLY:

• Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
• Please Apply Online.
• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
• The closing date for all applications: 12 February 2024.
• Note AJ Personnel is fully POPI compliant.
• Note WHC, in accordance with their Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.

Please note:

• AJ PERSONNEL is only responsible for the advertising of the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
• AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.

AJ Personnel