Right to Care Clinical Officers Jobs in Zambia

Right to Care Clinical Officers Jobs in Zambia

About Us

Right to Care is at the vanguard in supporting and delivering prevention, care, and treatment services for HIV and associated diseases. We work with government and communities to find pioneering solutions to build and strengthening public healthcare.

We embrace a strong entrepreneurial culture and focuses on innovation and the use of technology to enhance services, address skills shortages, and deliver quality healthcare outcomes. Our areas of expertise include HIV and TB care and treatment, pharmacy automation, medical male circumcision, and cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Right to Care Zambia has been awarded a five (5) year project funded by the USAID through the PEPFAR mechanism. The USAID – Action HIV project aims to reduce HIV mortality, morbidity and transmission by achieving the UNAIDS and PEPFAR goal of 95/95/95 HIV treatment coverage by providing comprehensive HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment maintenance services in Luapula, Northern and Muchinga provinces of Zambia. The USAID Action HIV project will work closely with and in support of the Ministry of Health.

Qualifications and Experience

Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:

Grade 12 Certificate

Diploma in Clinical Medical Sciences with a reputable institution with 3 years working experience

Trained in advanced ART Management

Trained in PMTCT and EID services

Trained in HIV Counselling, testing and ART Adherence

Trained in HIV Paediatric treatment, support, and care services.

Experience working in ART management at facility and Community levels respectively, with broad understanding of the collaborative aspect of community vs Facility leverages

Trained in PHC and ART health care systems and community-based health programming for HIV

Training certificate in Male Circumcision Surgical Skills

Training certificate in Cervical Cancer screening and management

Member of Health Professions Council of Zambia (HPCZ)

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:

Degree in Clinical Medicine

Prior experience working in HIV Management/Control

4 years’ experience

as a Clinical Officer General in a Community health/Hospital setting

Understanding of Lab baselines and investigations such as VL cascade etc.

Knowledge on various ART related documentation such as TPT, DSD models, SVS, MMSD, HIVST, PrEP, PEP etc

Health care service delivery background

Technical and Behavioral Competences

Customer Orientation

Good Interpersonal skills

Good time management skills and ability to determine priorities

Professional Ethics

Counselling skills

Key Performance Areas

Implement targeted, high yield testing strategies

Initiate 95 percent of those who newly test positive through rapid initiation protocols at the facility and in the community

Monitor VL suppression rates, scale up VL testing services, including increasing testing capacity, demand creation, specimen transport, and result utilization

Provision of Nutrition Assessment & Counselling (NACS) to the eligible clients to improve adherence, retention and viral load suppression.

Provide age-band targeted VMMC to avert new infections and reduce the spread of HIV

Implement PrEP among high-risk key and priority populations.

Provide Cervical Cancer screening to all the eligible women in the facilities

Implement differentiated service delivery (DSD) models to improve adherence, retention, and ultimately viral suppression

Conduct quality control projects and improvement every month to improve quality care to clients

Ensure data quality control quantitative through timely input of data

Submission of reports on respective organisation platforms requiring your monitoring and reporting input

How to Apply

To apply for this job email your details to Zambia.HRCommunications@righttocare-zambia.org

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