Clinical Services Specialist at Caritas Nigeria

Caritas Nigeria was established in September 2010 by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), as a specialized national development agency with a mandate for overall coordination of development programs for the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Although independently registered, Caritas Nigeria is an arm of the Church and Society Department of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN). Caritas Nigeria also provided care, treatment and support to over 39,921 patients in ten service delivery health facilities under the CHARIS program which was supported by the United States of America through the Centre for Disease Control and prevention (CDC).

CN invites applications for her "SUSTAIN Project" in the position below:

Job Title: Clinical Services Specialist

Job Code: 00052015
Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full Time
Department: Sustain Project
Category: Health Care

Job Descriptions

• Build capacity of facility based clinicians through hands-on coaching, supportive supervision and mentorship across program areas in HIV care and treatment
• Provide technical input in the development of an integrated program work plan and contribute quota towards ensuring the achievement of program deliverables
• Scale up and monitor continuous quality improvement efforts for maintaining the quality and standards of care for HIV positive patients
• Ensure facility level conformance to the various National guidelines for HIV management by ensuring on-site availability of hard copy national guidelines, SOP’s and job aides and familiarizing service providers with the contents
• Carry out facility based needs assessments and proffer technical advice in line with organizational goals and objectives especially pertaining to service scale up
• Maintain current knowledge of HIV/AIDS patient’s standard of care at facility level through organization of regular didactic sessions, mortality reviews, case reviews/presentations etc.
• Follow up on implementation, monitoring and evaluation of quality improvement strategies identified by program area leads, training needs and participation in facility based multidisciplinary meetings such as patient care team meetings
• Direct management of complicated HIV cases (such as 2nd line and salvage therapy patients, TBHIV and other OI’s and pediatric cases) at site level
• Provide supervision to satellite facilities (spokes) as well as TB and PMTCT sites in catchment areas
• Monthly reporting of all activities carried out within catchment area, representation of CCFN at state/national/USG TWG meetings and related activities as designated.
• Participate in all desk time related activities including making presentations, organizational research, abstract writing and other professional developmental endeavors

Preferred Skills

• The successful candidate shall possess a Postgraduate Degree in Medicine or Public Health with at least four years’ experience working in HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs. Demonstrable experience in advanced ART and AIDS palliative care is required.
• The candidate shall in addition have at least 2-years’ experience in HIV-related program management at with an ART implementing organization.
• Experience in operations research and health system strengthening shall be an added advantage.
• Experience in using Microsoft Office suite for word processing, presentations, publication and spreadsheet management is required.
• Experience working with diverse populations and communities as well as developing and maintaining effective working relationships with healthcare workers, community members, colleagues and supervisors is desired.
• Evidence of effective written and verbal communication; attention to detail, organizational and problem solving skills is also expected.

Application Closing Date
Friday, 17th July 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their application and updated Curriculum Vitae, to: [email protected]

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