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Date Posted: Saturday, October 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Pediatrics and Adolescent Officer

Job Summary
Support the provision of appropriate care and services to children and adolescents living with HIV and their families through mentorship, support supervision and monitoring the implementation of HIV and TB services among children and adolescents in the supported health facilities/districts. The officer will work directly with the health facilities and district health teams and develop action plans to improve service delivery and increase access to services for these categories of clients

Overall Responsibilities
• Support the implementation of National Pediatric, adolescent HIV and eMTCT/EID policies and guidelines at facility and district levels.
• Use innovative approaches to improve pediatric and adolescent HIV case finding, notification, management and related linkages/referrals from community to health facility level.
• Support planning, implementation, evaluation, and learning for the national CQI collaboratives for paediatric and eMTCT collaboratives.
• Implementation of the district Pediatric, adolescent HIV, and eMTCT/EID capacity building interventions in line with National HIV policies, SOPs, guidelines, and priorities.
• Support the health facilities to improve the PMTCT and EID cascade indicators at all supported ART sites.
• Periodically Compile and share reports on the pediatric, adolescent, and eMTCT/EID core outputs to the project management specialist and the technical manager HIV/TB services as per the set periodic pediatric, adolescent HIV and eMTCT indicators.
• Monitor and support quantification for critical PMTCT/EID and paediatric ART commodities in the supported health facilities and districts.
• Conduct operation research on Pediatric HIV and TB services and publications of findings in conferences, journals and other medical related literature to enhance knowledge sharing between pediatricians, frontline health care workers and relevant stakeholders in line with project objectives.

Required Qualification, Experience and Competencies:
• A bachelor’s degree in counselling and/or social work and social administration and/or diploma/degree in nursing with at least two years of relevant work experience in implementing HIV and TB control activities and pediatric and adolescent health interventions
• 2 Years Relevant Experience


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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