Medical Officer ( 3 Positions)

General Summary

The Medical Officer will ensure delivery of quality HIV/AIDS care and treatment services to clients by providing technical and leadership support to health facility teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to facility-based technical team members to ensure timely delivery on key project tasks.
• Lead mentorship and training efforts to build capacity of facility teams to deliver high quality HIV/AIDS care services.
• Provide clinical care to HIV/AIDS patients attending IDI-supported health facilities in line with standard care and treatment guidelines.
• Coordinate appropriate referral and management of complex patients through liaison with senior care specialists and tertiary treatment centres.
• Lead performance monitoring initiatives and routine data use activities at IDI-supported health facilities to guide implementation of project activities.
• Support the health workers to identify, implement and document continuous quality improvement activities along client care and treatment cascades.
• Coordinate and support facility efforts in follow up of clients to improve linkage, retention and viral suppression rates among clients in HIV care.
• Support health facilities to compile and submit accurate HMIS and programmatic reports according to project, donor and Ministry of Health timelines.
• Any other duties as may reasonably be assigned from time to time.

Person Specification

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery Degree
• Completion of Internship
• Full and active registration with the UMDPC
• Additional training in HIV/AIDS care and opportunistic infections

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience and up-to-date technical knowledge of HIV/AIDS clinical care and ART
• Good communication, organization and management skills
• Understands client confidentiality and exhibits high level of ethical conduct
• Has basic computer literacy including word processing, excel, internet and power point.

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