Palliative Care Advisor

PATH is an international, nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. PATH's mission is to improve the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors.

The Palliative Care Advisor provides technical leadership and expertise to the project’s partners to strengthen the delivery, access to and quality of HIV/AIDS clinical and non-clinical services at the community level. The advisor will identify, develop and disseminate tools, approaches and best practices to improve palliative care performance, introduce quality assurance standards and guidelines and integrate supportive supervision at each service delivery level.

Responsibilities include:

Provide clinical leadership and technical direction to develop, implement and monitor community-based HIV/AIDS services including training activities and quality improvement approaches.  Identify emerging medical technologies and approaches in relevant clinical and non-clinical areas to build implementing partner capacity and ensure coordination and provision of integrated ART, PMTCT, CT and STI services.  Guide project activities to fulfill policy requirements of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and ensure alignment with USAID/PEPFAR guidelines. Work with project staff and local implementing partners to develop and adapt practical and sustainable tools to enhance the quality, utilization and sustainability of community-based HIV/AIDS services.  Develop training curricula and materials, and provide technical guidance for continued quality improvement. Work closely with project staff and implementing partners to identify and document care and support best practices and position the project for continued scale-up of activities.  Contribute to identification, development, implementation and coordination of activities to build district-level human resource capacity, strengthening referral networks, increasing information flow between providers, community and patients; and assessing and responding to barriers of testing, treatments and successful management of Palliative Care.  In collaboration with technical partners, enable quality performance at district level to train and guide coordinators on referrals, case management, and monitoring and evaluation of health systems and leverage current social mobilization efforts to stimulate treatment-seeking behaviors.  Supervises a team of palliative care specialists providing direct technical assistance to implementing partners.  Medical Doctor/Nursing Degree required, with M.P.H. preferred 5+ years experience providing clinical support  5+ years working with USAID-funded HIV/AIDS programsTechnical experience in clinic and community-based settings as well as outreach services. Significant experience developing guidelines, performance improvement standards, pre and in-service training, and curricula and materials for infection prevention, counselling, and gender-sensitive and youth-friendly services. Willingness and ability to travel in-country up to 25% time. 

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