Regional PMTCT and pediatrics HIV Care & Treatment Advisor Job at ICAP - 2015

Job Title:                   Regional PMTCT and pediatrics HIV Care & Treatment Advisor   
Duty Station:           Tigray (Mekele)
Number:                  1
Line Manager         Regional Director
Direct Reports        None 

The Incumbent will provide clinical technical support to the Regional Health Bureau to enable the region to implement high quality comprehensive pediatric HIV care and treatment and and integrated maternal, new-born and Child health/ PMTCT support programs.  S/he will provide HIV related technical assistance to build strong linkages between treatment, care and support within the continuum of HIV services g of integrated & facility-community linked HIV care. 
 
Duties and Responsibilities
 
Under the supervision by the regional director, the PMTCT and Paediatric care and treatment Advisor will have the following responsibilities:

 

Provide technical assistance to RHB in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating PMTCT/MNCH  activities;Provide TA to RHB to implement early infant diagnosis (EID) and to strengthen referral linkage with ART clinic;Support RHB to ensure Option B+ service implementation at MNCH unit and mother infant pair follow up at ANC clinicsProvide TA to RHB to implement quality comprehensive family focused paediatric HIV AIDS care and exposed infant follow up to improve the quality of care;Provide TA to facility level staffs in proper documentation and timely reporting of PMTCT/MNCH activities.Provide technical support to the regional health bureau on the implementation of multidisciplinary meeting and monthly performance meeting;Support the regional health bureau in the planning, coordinating, implementing  and monitoring of clinical system mentorship, catchment area meeting, case review sessions, review meeting and supportive supervision;Participate in the regional health bureau joint supportive supervision and review meeting and develop action item on the identified gapsIn collaboration with CTD provide technical support to RHB by identifying needs to develop or/ and revise CSM SOPs, CSM documentation and reporting tools and CAM documentation and reporting tools on PMTCT/MNCH;In collaboration with CTD provide technical support to RHB to develop or/and revise and distribute Provider support tools (PST) and clients education materials (IEC) on PMTCT /MNCH services;Assist regional health bureau focal person in performing PMTCT/MNCH training need assessment and planning of trainings;Support RHB in strengthening monitoring and evaluation and information system, facilitation of community linkages, patient flow analysis, improvement of adherence support system, development or improvement of referral system, etc.Support RHB in using PMTCT/MNCH service quality assessment indicators, development of assessment tools and SOP and setting quality bench marksConduct targeted site visits as necessary upon the request of the RHBAssist RHB in coordinating care and treatment integration of HIV services in community settings.Assist RHB in identifying emerging challenges and development of solutions in the continuum of community HIV services.Assist in establishing and maintaining collaborations with relevant counterpart’s in the region.Actively participate in documentation of experiences, lessons learned, case studies and other technical documents;Develop and submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports;Participate in targeted evaluation and operations research; andPerform other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.

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