Clinician Coordinators at Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) - 2 Positions

Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF), is a legally registered NGO operating in Nigeria, AHF-Nigeria collaborates with the Federal Government of Nigeria and other partner institutions, to provide technical assistance to these key. To meet the above needs, the program wishes to recruit a dynamic, skilled, committed, self-driven and results oriented individuals to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Clinical Coordinator

Locations: Anambra and Cross River
Report to: Country Program Manager
Slot: 2

Job Summary

• The State Clinical Coordinator directly oversees all medical activities, at AHF - Nigeria supported facilities in the located State, in Nigeria, covering all comprehensive sites and outposts within the State/region, and see to the expansion of services within the State/region in Nigeria, ensuring delivery of high quality standard of care for all patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership and Management:

• As a manage he/she oversees medical, AHF operations in the State and supports the Country Program Manager to efficiently and effectively deliver quality clinical services in the state/region.
• He/she will lead the expansion of AHF Program within the state.
• Provide technical supports to Prevention and Treatment program and ensure linkage of outreach activities to treatment and care program through well-established processes of patient linkages and service integration
• Attends key technical partners meetings and provides feedback to management through the Country Program Manager.
• Ensures that CMEs are conducted in all sites and participates in the facilitation of CME sessions.
• He/she participates in staff need assessment and induction of new hired staff.
• He/she participates in setting performance targets and staff appraisal, disciplining and addressing complaints of employees under his/her supervision.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Ensure standard quality of clinical services at all AHF supported sites in his/her region.
• Provide periodic comprehensive support supervision report, adhering to the tools provided by AHF
• Promotes the Implementation of standard operating procedures for all activities relating to good clinical practice and ensure functional QI teams are in existence at site levels
• Supervise and implement quality management activities and quality benchmarks monitoring, facilitation of quality assurance and quality improvement sessions.
• Strengthen TB/HIV PMTCT , ART services through integrated service delivery and provision of quality services in the state program.
• Ensures optimal operations of the laboratory services, including functioning of sample referral networks at regional level
• Provide on-site technical support and mentoring to the field staff and coordinate M&E of the project
• Ensures effective patient flow in all sites, especially those with high volume of patients and coordinate time motion surveys to monitor performance
• Oversees the timely collection, compilation and reporting of routine and specific data to guide decision making at site, regional and country program level.
• Identify early warning resistance indicators and intervention strategies
• Remain updated on current trends and standards in clinical management of HIV/AIDS and related illnesses
• Participate in the elaboration/monitoring of annual targets and ensure that they are achieved in all regional sites

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Provides direct supervision and mentorship to doctors, nurses, laboratory scientists, pharmacy technician working in the different facilities in the region to ensure continuous growth and learning
• Ensure timely compilation and submission of monthly drug inventory reports in coordination with the Program pharmacist
• Work with the program pharmacist to ensure that pharmacy operations are in accordance with good pharmacy practices
• Identify and promote operational research at site level and build capacity among the staff in case presentations and elaboration of scientific papers

Education and Experience

• Must be a Medical Doctor from a recognizable institution. Additional qualification in Health systems management, public health or family medicine will be an added advantage
• Minimum of Five years Medical/Health service experience preferred with a sound knowledge of basic medical disciplines to allow for accurate diagnosis and appropriate management of clinical problems.
• Three years or more of recent experience with HIVAIDS treatment; two years minimum of administration and program management experience with knowledge of clinical protocols and procedures in the management of HIV related diseases,
• Experience in quality management and assurance practices desired
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Research applications e.g SPSS, Epi-info etc

Application Closing Date
12:00 PM; 22nd March, 2016.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV's and cover letters to: globalhr.Africa@aidshealth.org

Note

• Candidate should kindly indicate the position applying for and their preferred located as the subject of their e-mail.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.