Professional Nurse (PWUD Project)

1.Main Job Purpose

To provide quality health care to People Who Use Drugs (PWUD), establish linkage into care channels with different facilities, manage their healthcare needs, and ensure treatment completion.

2.Role Deliverables

ART Initiation, TB, HEP B & C, and other NCDs linkage to care

• Ensure that all the diagnosed HIV positive clients are initiated on ART daily
• Build relationships and establish linkage to care channels with different facilities in different regions.
• Use the health facilities in your catchment area for clinical stationery and treatment for clients.
• Ensure all clients who screen and test positive for HIV, TB, HEP B & C, and other NCDs (such as Diabetes and Hypertension) are linked to care, monitored, and ensure treatment completion.
• It is your responsibility to manage your cohort linked to care and ensure viral suppression and/or competition of treatment.
• Ensure that you submit weekly, monthly, and quarter case management tool and other related tools and reports
• You are responsible for all follow ups that needs to be done for your cohort and submit monthly report on cohort management
• Daily record and reconciliations of clinical materials and ART medication from facilities
• Reports of ART initiations done and submitted to the project manager and other relevant parties.
• Keeping accurate, up-to-date records of medical supplies, equipment, and drugs. Provide monthly inventories to the project manager.
• Daily record of ART initiations kept and submitted to the M&E officer for capturing.

Outreach clinical services

• Assess the HIV prevention care and support needs of each client and prepare a plan together with the Site Coordinator, Linkage Nurse, HTS Counsellors, and Linkage officers to address these needs.
• Responsible for the coordination and implementation of mobile health care activities to PWUDs in COJ
• Provide outreach clinical services i.e., HTS, STI and TB screening and Sputums/Xray done, STI treatment, wound care, antiretroviral treatment (ART), PEP, PrEP and adherence support groups done, non-communicable diseases screening, sexual reproductive health (cervical cancer screening and provision of family planning to all female clients), and referral for specialist services offered only at the clinic.
• Ensure that all clients testing HIV positive and screen TB positive, you collect the sputum for analysis and treatment is initiated until completion
• Ensure that all medical services provided during outreach need to adhere to National Department of Health guidelines and policies [13], and ensure that we reach and surpass the targets.
• Ensure ART adherence and viral suppression for positive clients

Project Support and administration

• Daily reviews of HTS and ART registers done.
• Weekly participation in project meetings
• Ensure clinical follow-ups are done and develop and maintain follow up registers UpToDate.
• Attending to referrals from peer educators, site coordinators, social auxiliary worker and programme manager.
• Provide oversight to a team of HTS counsellors, linkage officers, and social auxiliary workers.
• Updating Clinical records and registers: Referral, Linkage, ART, HTS.
• Providing statistics on portfolios delegated.
• Managing Drug supply and HIV RDTs in line with GPP (Good Pharmacy Practice).
• Monitoring HTS data and ensuring targets are met.
• Monitoring referrals and ensuring successful referrals are validated.
• Participating in meetings: networking and stakeholder engagement.
• It is your responsibility to ensure that you familiarise yourself with Anova Policies, especially those relevant to your position
• It is your responsibility to attend all the meetings, sensitization trainings, and training invitations in your region and as requested by the funder and stakeholders.

Organisational Support

• Counsel and train staff on clinical ethical conduct at work
• Keep abreast with new clinical developments e.g., training, in-service training, reading journals, policies, and procedures related to job.
• Assisting with setting of goals, objectives, and interventions for quality service delivery.
• Ensuring all medical equipment is in working order, and that we have all the clinical supplies and stationery we need in the project.
• Adhering to Health and Safety and Infection Control Policies and Procedures.
• Implementing and maintaining quality assurance programmes: Ideal Clinic Realisation and Maintenance (ICRM) and National Core Standards (NCS) with support and guidance from Aurum.
• Assisting with Assessments.
• Implementing Rapid Test Continuous Quality Improvement: Independent Quality Control and Proficiency Testing for HIV RDTs.
• Attend meetings, briefings, debriefing, staff meetings and other as directed to do so on a regular basis.
• Responsible for driving yourself and your team to the sites of work as and when required, and you should adhere to the Anova vehicle management policy

Qualifications and Experience

• Dispensing certificate is required
• Professional Nursing and NIMART training required
• At least 2 years’ experience in project or operations management
• At least 2 years’ experience in HIV or public health environment
• Able to demonstrate ability to update and maintain a data register.
• Computer Literate – MS Office Packages (MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel & PowerPoint).
• Excellent Communication skills and ability to speak one of the local languages
• Valid driver’s license
• Ability to travel as and when required
• Innovative, organized, analytical and excellent interpretation data skills