RECRUITMENT NOTICE
Title : Site Focal Point
Number of positions : 01
Location : Kribi – Southern Region
Hierarchy : Site Lead/SDM
Deadline for submission of applications : December 11, 2023
Contract duration: 03 months
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDs Foundation is a global leader in the fight against childhood HIV and AIDS. It operates in 16 countries and more than 5,000 sites worldwide to prevent vertical transmission of HIV to children and help those who are already infected.
Today, thanks to the successful work of the Foundation and its partners, pediatric AIDS has been virtually eliminated in the United States. With a global workforce of more than 3,100 people, nine out of 10 of whom work in the field – the Foundation’s global mission is to implement HIV prevention, care and treatment programs; advance innovative research; and carry out strategic and targeted global advocacy activities to bring about dramatic change in the lives of millions of women, children and families around the world.
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Thanks to funding from the CDC / PEPFAR Cameroon for the Achieve95 project , EGPAF is assisting the Ministry of Public Health and the Cameroonian Government to ensure that 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95% of them are informed under antiretroviral treatment, and that 95% of them have a suppressed viral load.
Position Objectives :
The site Focal Point will be responsible for supporting the management of the HIV project and improving the delivery of HIV clinical services in the health facility by offering a package of HIV care and treatment services integrated into the health facility. framework of the ATTEINDRE95 project.
The site focal point is placed under the authority of the District Integrated HIV Services Coordinator.
Specific roles and responsibilities :
- Management activities
- – Develop and submit to the District Integrated HIV Services Coordinator a budgeted monthly work plan in line with the project work plan, clearly showing planned activities, expected results, deadlines, objectives and verification indicators.
– Fully ensure the coordination of the implementation of the monthly work plan in line with the budget in the most efficient manner;
– Ensure effective management of the multidisciplinary team on site to achieve project objectives .
- – Ensure that all elicited contacts are tested (this includes sexual contacts, biological contacts, biological children, sibling when it comes to an index child), and the results of the tests documented in the ICT register.
- – Ensure that all pregnant women who test negative in the first ANC are re-tested in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy and documentation is made in the ANC register.
- – Ensure that all partners of pregnant women are tested and the test result documented.
- – Coach site staff on the implementation of the SNS and its documentation in the appropriate registers.
- – Coach site staff on the implementation of Handshake model activities with KPs community partners on the site and ensure appropriate documentation of data.
- – Coach site staff on intimate partner violence (IPV) screening, adverse effects and first-line response.
- – Coach site staff on the documentation of GBV, IPV, adverse reactions and ensure effective documentation of all cases in the GBV and IPV registers.
- – Ensure that screening activities are carried out with respect for confidentiality and patient rights.
- Support the site’s dispensing activities by ensuring that all services to be offered to clients are offered to them during dispensing.
- Help sites identify patients with psychosocial and mental health problems and refer them to the relevant services (psychosocial team, psychologist, OBC, etc.)
- Coach APS on the use and completion of daily appointment tracking registers, as well as the tracking register (tracking tools).
- Ensure daily documentation of site dispensing and tracking activities in appropriate records.
- Provide coaching to staff on screening for advanced diseases (AHD), and their documentation in conventional registers.
- Ensure coaching of staff on the implementation of differentiated models of care and the increase in demand for differentiated care by clients according to the differentiated models available in the sites for which they are responsible.
- Coach staff on the appropriate documentation of differentiated care models, and ensure the effective implementation of these differentiated care models.
- Coach site staff on the announcement of the child’s HIV status and supervise the announcement process in the sites under his/her jurisdiction.
- Ensure that the site has status announcement tools, including the “disclosure sheet”.
- Ensure that the site has consent forms for emancipated adolescents.
- Ensure that all children and adolescents followed are on an optimized diet.
- Ensure that all orphans and vulnerable children monitored are enrolled in the OVC program.
- Ensure that all services offered to OVC are documented in the bidirectional register.
- Hold weekly and monthly coordination meetings with staff involved in the HIV/AIDS program to review program performance, identify problems and possible solutions;
- – Conduct weekly and monthly site data validation meetings;
– Organize monthly feedback meetings with Health Structure Managers to provide high-level residential feedback and present challenges and opportunities;
– Ensure the proper collection of data, reporting as well as the good performance of its site with regard to HIV/AIDS care and treatment at the health facility;
– Develop and submit the monthly activity report to the District Integrated HIV Services Coordinator. – In collaboration with the Coordinator and the Major of UPEC, ensure the supervision and coordination of UPEC staff.
Clinical activities
– Organize coaching sessions for staff on the screening service offering and the implementation of test and treat .
– Ensure the site has all screening algorithms and SOPs, including screening of exposed children.
– Supervise screening activities on site and in the community by supporting targeted screening through the use of the screening tool .
– Ensure that testing is done systematically for all clients in high-yield entry points (TB clinic, malnutrition, STI, ANC) including children and adolescents.
– Help the site identify children exposed without a final outcome at 18-24 months and organize their testing according to the National algorithm for screening exposed children.
– Coach site staff on the use of the cohort monitoring register.
– Ensure that each exposed child has a well-informed medical file (green file) (date of birth, place of birth, date of enrollment, location plan, telephone number of parents or guardians, etc.).
- – Coach site staff on the use and completion of screening and data collection tools (quality assurance register, community screening register).
- – Coach site staff on the implementation of same day ARV initiation (SDAI), and help the site put in place a follow-up plan for missed initiation opportunities.
- – Ensure initiation of ARV treatment with DTG-based protocols for all new positive cases.
- – Ensure that the ICT service offering is systematically made to:
- All new positive cases identified;
- Clients with high viral load;
– Coach site staff on the monitoring of TB/HIV co-infected patients, including the implementation of contact tracing.
– Ensure that TB screening is systematically carried out and documented in the TB screening register at each visit/contact of a client in the health facility.
– Ensure that TPT is systematically offered to all PLHIV screened for TB- and its documentation is completed.
– Coach site staff on systematic screening, documentation and reference of NCDs.
– Facilitate the organization of the collection and delivery to the Laboratory of CV samples from eligible clients for all population groups in the health facilities within its jurisdiction.
– Provide coaching to staff on filling out CV collection tools at different levels: CV register, high CV register, sample transmission slip to the laboratory.
– Coach staff on the U=U message and ensure that the message creates demand for viral load collection among clients.
– Coach site staff on conducting reinforced adherence support sessions for clients with high CVs, as well as clients not adhering to ARV treatment.
– Ensure that all clients with high viral load are enrolled in the enhanced adherence support program, and all have been sampled after three well-conducted EAC sessions.
– Ensure that all viral load results are documented in the viral load register, and compliance support sessions reinforced in the high viral load register.
– Ensure that sites have all the tools necessary for patient monitoring (SOP, patient file, daily log, tracking tool, EAC form, counseling form, etc.).
Monitoring-Evaluation Activities
– Support the updating of health facility registers
– Extract data from all registers at the end of the day for an extraction sheet, check internal consistency and prepare the monthly report form (hardware and software) from the health facility to send to higher levels;
– Enter data in all media (monthly report sheets and all databases);
– Store copies of completed Monthly Report Forms (MRFs)
– Ensure the timely transmission of complete data to levels above the site health facility on the required dates and frequencies (week, month)
– Participate in basic data analysis based on each department’s waterfall and provide weekly feedback.
– Participate in the data quality audit
– Patients PDV and returned to care.
Qualifications required:
– Training : A minimum of BAC+3/a diploma in nursing or laboratory technician or other health-related fields.
– Experience : At least 03 years of experience in a health care setting specifically in the provision of HIV clinical services; experience in data collection and reporting is an asset.
– Skills : Excellent communication skills with patients, service providers and the public.
– Language : Good command of French and/or English is an essential requirement.
Required skills, abilities and experience
– The site focal point should demonstrate a positive attitude towards HIV, their own beliefs about the effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment and the importance of adherence, as this will determine how they will strengthen the link with care and treatment services.
– The Site Focal Point must have a good understanding of the overall HIV care system.
– Have an empathetic and non-judgmental approach towards patients.
– Good communication and interpersonal skills
– Ability to work in a team and with minimal supervision.
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