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JOB DETAILS:
Duty Station: Kampala, Masaka, West Nile, Soroti
Reports To: Regional Team Lead
Job Summary: The holder is charged with building PNFP sites’ capacity to offer high quality TB services including TB/HIV integration according to NTLP guidelines. Strengthen TB/HIV collaboration, TB diagnosis, treatment, prevention, recording and quality reporting as well as supporting national campaigns to end TB as well as supporting advanced HIV disease management.

Summary of Roles and Responsibilities
1. Technical and Strategic Leadership
• Serves as the technical specialist for UEC FLASH project in all aspects of TB and Advanced HIV Disease management with emphasis on TB preventive therapy (TPT), TB treatment and its outcomes, TB infection control (TB IC), TB/HIV co-treatment, screening for TB and Advanced HIV Diseases including Cryptococcal Meningitis, CD4 testing at regional, district and facility level.
• Support TB case identification and successful treatment using different modalities including microscopy, TB LAM, GeneXpert and X-ray services.
• Supports implementation of surge strategies and campaigns including the 3-by-1 campaign, TPT catch up plans and the CAST TB campaign
• Provides expert-level guidance to health facility clinical and counseling teams in TB and Advanced HIV Disease Management
• Keeps current on all new developments in TB/AHDM in order to advise and/or lead health facilities on priorities and implementation approaches.
• Convenes technical meetings to review progress and discuss improvement initiatives.
• Supports the review of facility budgets and workplans to ensure they are responsive to the requirements to meet set targets and quality standards.
• Coordinate the implementation of community TB activities including contact tracing, X-ray outreaches, screening in hotspots, treatment follow-up and campaigns involving VHTs e.g., CAST TB
• Any other duty that may be assigned from time to time.

1. Capacity Building
• Conducts training, mentorship and technical support supervision regularly to health facility staff on aspects of TB and AHDM
• Development of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guides for facility teams to refer to.
• Conducts Continuous Medical Education (CME) sessions physically and virtually

1. Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Improvement
• Working with the Strategic Information (SI) team, prepares and responds to ad-hoc reports and data calls on TB and AHDM.
• Supports recording and reporting of data in TB and AHDM. Participates in periodic data quality assessments (DQAs) and ensures that reported data is accurate, complete and timely as a good representation of the HIV care and treatment indicators.
• Supports the institution of data-driven CQI projects in TB and AHDM such as improvement of baseline CD4 testing, CrAg testing and utilization of TB LAM and GeneXpert.
• Foster a learning environment that facilitates cross learning and exchange of best practices, recommended strategies, and innovative interventions to improve health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLHIV) receiving services through the regional UEC UCMB facilities.
• Support active participation of clinical teams in QI collaboratives
• Support facility-level and UEC-level periodic data review meetings and performance monitoring with follow-up of agreed action plans for improvement
• Conducts facility-level assessments using the SIMS (Site Improvement Monitoring System) tool and supports facility teams to address identified gaps.
• Support External Quality Assurance (EQA) of CD4, TB and CrAg tests

1. Representation, Collaboration and Teamwork
• Works closely with District Health Management Teams (District TB and Leprosy Supervisors- DTLSs) and Regional TB and Leprosy Supervisors (RTLSs) to deliver quality TB services
• Represents UEC at district and regional performance review meetings
• Collaborates with other development partners like Global Fund, USAID and their supported projects like LPHS to support UEC facilities provide quality TB and AHDM services.
• Works with the Supply Chain and Laboratory advisors to ensure uninterrupted supplies of logistics for supported health facilities including CD4 test kits, TB reagents and kits, CrAg kits
• Works closely with other partners including the regional comprehensive mechanisms to optimize opportunities for cross sectoral integration and leveraging of resources across the different program components to guarantee client-centered services are prioritized and implemented across all supported health facilities

Qualifications and qualities:
• Diploma in Clinical Medicine; a degree in Public Health or related field is an added advantage
• Knowledge in training, mentorship and technically sound
• Strategic decision making and leadership
• Teamwork, networking and good interpersonal skills
• A three-year experience working with HIV, TB or related public health projects for is required.

JOB DETAILS:
Reports To: Regional Team Lead
Job summary: The job holder builds site capacity to offer quality HIV treatment services, ART initiation, support ART regimen optimization, retention in care, viral suppression and regimen switching as per national guidelines, implementation of differentiated service models, support sites to routinely conduct mortality audits, and patient chart reviews to identify issues that hamper adherence. S/he supports tracking, documenting and laying strategies to minimize interruption in treatment and assure continuity of treatment within the region.

Summary of Roles and Responsibilities
1. Technical and Strategic Leadership
• Serves as the technical specialist for UEC FLASH project in all aspects of clinical care and treatment for HIV/AIDS with emphasis on antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation, continuity of treatment (CoT), multi-month dispensing (MMD), regimen optimization, differentiated service delivery (DSDM), adherence and viral load coverage (VLC) and viral load suppression (VLS) at regional and facility levels.
• In liaison with Senior Technical Advisor – Care & Treatment, provides expert-level guidance to health facility clinical and counseling teams in HIV/AIDS care and treatment
• Keeps current on all new developments in HIV/AIDS treatment, care and support in order to advise and/or lead health facilities on priorities and implementation approaches.
• Convenes technical meetings to review progress and discuss improvement initiatives at regional level.
• Supports the review of facility budgets and workplans to ensure they are responsive to the requirements to meet set targets and quality standards.
• Any other duty that may be assigned from time to time.

1. Capacity Building
• Conducts training, mentorship and technical support supervision regularly to health facility staff on aspects of HIV care and treatment at regional level for achievement of targets and quality standards.
• With support from Senior Technical Advisor Care & Treatment, develops Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guides for facility teams to refer to. The SOPs include, but are not limited to, CoT, Viral Load Coverage (VLC) and Viral Load Suppression (VLS), ART regimen optimization for children, adolescents and adults, Advanced HIV Disease Management (AHDM)
• Conducts Continuous Medical Education (CME) sessions physically and virtually on key sub technical areas to build capacity of health facility staff

1. Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Improvement in HIV Care and Treatment
• Working with the Strategic Information (SI) team, prepares and responds to ad-hoc reports and data calls on different indicators under care and treatment.
• Supports recording and reporting of data in HIV care and treatment. Participates in periodic data quality assessments (DQAs) and ensures that reported data is accurate, complete and timely as a good representation of the HIV care and treatment indicators.
• Supports the institution of data-driven CQI projects in sub technical areas that need improvement in supported health facilities at regional level
• Foster a learning environment that facilitates cross learning and exchange of best practices, recommended strategies, and innovative interventions to improve health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLHIV) receiving services through UEC supported facilities.
• Support active participation of clinical teams in QI collaboratives
• Support facility-level and UEC-level periodic data review meetings with follow-up of agreed action plans for improvement
• Conducts facility-level assessments using the SIMS (Site Improvement Monitoring System) tool and supports facility teams to address identified gaps.

1. Representation, Collaboration and Teamwork
• Works closely with District Health Management Teams to deliver quality HIV care and treatment services.
• Works with the Supply Chain and Laboratory advisors to ensure uninterrupted supplies of logistics for supported health facilities
• Works closely with other partners including the regional comprehensive mechanisms to optimize opportunities for cross sectoral integration and leveraging of resources across the different program components to guarantee client-centered services are prioritized and implemented across all supported health facilities

Qualifications and qualities:
• Diploma in Clinical Medicine; a degree in Public Health or a related field is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in training, mentorship and technically sound
• Strategic decision making and leadership
• Teamwork, networking and good interpersonal skills
Experience working with HIV, TB or related public health projects for three years is an added advantage

JOB DETAILS:
Duty Station: Rwenzori, West Nile, Soroti, Kampala, Luwero, Hoima
Reports To: Regional Team Lead
Job Summary: The purpose of the position is to provide technical support to health facilities in the region to deliver high quality HIV testing services, optimize index testing, HIV self-testing, recency testing, offer HIV prevention services to key and priority populations, and implement PrEP, GBV/VAC intervention services. The holder will work with religious leaders to complement efforts of health facilities in risk communication, retention and linkage to care.

Roles and Responsibilities:
HIV Counseling and Testing services (HTS) related roles and responsibilities
• Support facilities to offer targeted HTS services to realize increased HIV+ yield in pursuit of the 1st 95 in all the PNFP facilities in the targeted region.
• Work to Intensify PITC at high yielding points with messages that promote HTS while emphasizing the WHO 5Cs.
• Devise new strategies for increasing partner and other family members testing in all the PNFP accredited facilities in the Region.
• Support facilities to intensify ART clients’ linkage through the Facility-community linkage framework, inter and intra-facility referrals to achieve the 2nd
• Support facilities to offer targeted HTS services to outreach sites to priority and key populations at places such as landing sites, trading centres.
• Offer technical guidance on the mapping of all hotspots and safe spaces for KPs and PPs and ensure effective service delivery to these targeted groups.
• Build capacity of supported facilities in the delivery of PITC and Comprehensive HTS in line with WHO and MOH recommendations.
• Conduct regular capacity building sessions in the supported facilities to ensure quality and timely implementation of recommended HTS strategies such as eligibility screening at all service delivery points, Partner Notification Services (PNS) and HIV self – testing, Recency testing among others.
• Enhance the capacity of and support PNFP facilities to offer Assisted Partner Notification services.
• Play a key role in Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement in HTS of supported facilities including data quality checks (DQA)
• Provide Technical assistance to facilities in delivery of Adolescent and children friendly HIV testing services
• Prepare monthly progress reports on the performance of HTS indicators for supported sites
• Regularly participate in HTS data review meetings at Program, region, district and facility levels
• Regularly plan for and conduct joint facility level HIS and HTS data quality audits to verify and validate HTS and PNS reports
• Contribute/participate in the development of the monthly, quarterly or annual, departmental work plans and budgets and regularly refer to these plans in the implementation of program activities
• Identify, document and share key lessons to aid cross learning.
• Writing periodic reports (quantitative and qualitative) on HTS services

Community-Facility linkages and referrals related roles and responsibilities
• Provide onsite training for VHTs, linkage facilitators and lay counselors in community HIV/AIDS care for all supported PNFP facilities in the region focusing on the Country targets goals of 95-95-95.
• Liaise with district officials (DCDO, PSWO, DACs, DOVCC and SOVCC) to strengthen and harmonize implementation of community HIV programs.
• Strengthen partnerships with community based organizations and civil service organizations and other structures in the community to enhance bi-directional linkages between supported facilities and the communities.
• Support the implementation of differentiated services delivery models (DSDM) in PNFP supported facilities to ensure continuum of response while integrating community activities in other program areas
• Monitor and offer guidance on the performance of community outreaches, satellites and sub-contracted CBO/CSO programs in faith based Health Care Facilities
• Represent the program at various fora as the occasion demands such as Regional and district level meetings and lobbying campaigns.

Gender Services related roles and responsibilities
• Build the capacity of health workers in supported PNFP facilities on gender equality, equity and gender main streaming
• Oversee gender activities implementation in all the supported facilities.
• Support facilities to create awareness amongst communities on gender based violence, violence against children and advocate for access and support facilities to care for GBV survivors

Adherence support related roles and responsibilities
• Periodically review and develop tailor made adherence messages for supported PNFP facilities.
• Offer technical assistance on Viral Load monitoring and intensified adherence counseling
• Offer continuous technical assistance in adherence counseling and psychosocial support to clients
• Assist faith based health care facilities in setting up adherence program strategies across various age bands.
Key population and Priority population related roles and responsibilities
• Establish and strengthen key priority and priority populations care programs in PNFP facilities that serve such populations in the region.
• Guide health workers in clinics with KPs on KP and PP program implementation, recording in KP/PP register and reporting
• Identify KP CSOs within the region, establish linkages and bi-directional referrals with PNFP facilities for KP related services.
• Organize and conduct trainings for health workers and peers in stigma reduction and clinical competency related to KPs using the MOH curriculum.

Qualifications/Competencies:
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Diploma in Nursing, Clinical medicine.
• A certificate in HIV Counseling from a recognized University
• A five-year experience of working with a recognized institution dedicated to HIV/AIDS work
• Evidence of active implementation of HIV/HTS activities in the past three years
• Adequate knowledge of the current HIV prevention services
• Mentoring and coaching skills to lower cadres

JOB DETAILS:
Major Responsibilities:
• Obtain informed consent from caregivers of eligible patients as per protocol, in accordance with GCP and HSP principles.
• Counsel and explain study procedures to the caregivers of study participants.
• Work with Study Medical Officer to enroll eligible patients into the study, to meet the study site-specific accrual targets.
• Complete study CRFs, correctly and accurately in compliance with trial procedures/ SOPs and GCP standards.
• Ensure study participant safety and privacy, and data integrity and confidentiality.
• Provide emergency nursing care for study participants as per protocol.
• Participate in the collection of appropriate samples/specimens from study participants as per protocol and SOPs, ensuring that the samples are sent to the appropriate labs.
• Participate in the routine clinical care of non-study participants on the wards

Required qualifications and skills:
• A diploma in Nursing
• Full registration and practicing license with the Uganda Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Prior experience in clinical research preferred
• Proven Good Clinical Practices (GCP) training
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills to develop relationships with participants
• Teamworking skills to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team
• Time management skills and the ability to work under pressure
• Willingness to keep up to date with current traumatic brain injury information and research.

JOB DETAILS:
Major Responsibilities:
• Identify and screen patients for possible enrolment into the study according to the protocol.
• Recruitment and enrollment of eligible patients into the study.
• Provide emergency and continuous medical care to children taking part in the study for the duration of the study.
• Consent and explain study procedures to caregivers and older children.
• Collect appropriate samples from the study participants and ensure that they are delivered to the appropriate labs as per protocol.
• Review study forms and data for accuracy and with attention to detail, conducted daily
• Responsible for documentation and reporting of any adverse events.
• Participate in study-specific training for conducting a clinical research study
• Train/supervise study nurses.
• Participate in the routine clinical care of non-study participants on the wards.
• Perform other duties given by your supervisors.
• Communicate regularly with project leaders about study progress through physical and/or virtual media
• Maintaining good communication and working relationship between the study team and Mulago Hospital

Required qualifications and skills:
• A bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Bachelor’s in Surgery
• Full registration and annual practicing license with the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioner’s Council (UMDPC)
• Prior experience in clinical research will be an added advantage
• Proven Good Clinical Practices (GCP) training
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills to develop relationships with participants
• Team working skills to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team
• Time management skills and the ability to work under pressure
• Willingness to keep up to date with current traumatic brain injury information and research.

JOB DETAILS:
Description
The position holder will be the academic and administrative head of the Mildmay Uganda School of Clinical Officers and will manage it in a manner that ensures academic excellence, efficient use of resources and the welfare of students/staff, in line with Mildmay Uganda, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Sports and relevant national/international policies and guidelines.

Qualifications
A Degree in Clinical Medicine and Community Health, plus a post graduate diploma in medical education or Diploma in Education. OR Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Community Health with Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Education. He/she must be registered with the allied health professionals’ council with a current Annual Practicing Licence.
The successful candidate must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in teaching; experience/knowledge relevant MOH/MOES guidelines and policies; plus ability to network and liaise with various partners. Experience in managing an academic programme is an added advantage.
All applicants must have a Non-judgmental approach to human relations; be in sympathy with MIHS’s Christian values; possess good communication and interpersonal skills; and must be able to maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues. Customer focus is paramount.

JOB DETAILS:
Clinical Officers (2)
General Summary
To provide medical care, treatment and prevention to clients and their care takers (most especially HIV/AIDS clients), and contribute to continuous professional development in line with Good clinical practices

Key Responsibilities
• Provide clinical assessment and evaluation of health of clients and provide proper individualized patient centered care and treatment in line with Good clinical practices
• Prepare and submit periodic activity work plans, monthly timesheets and periodic reports to key stakeholders in line with Health facility targets.
• Provide appropriate advice, health education and counselling to patients.
• Monitor implementation of comprehensive HIV care packages at HFs as per the set targets.
• Conduct pharmacovigilance procedures and monitor disease progression while providing appropriate management including referral for complicated cases to higher levels of management and for community follow up in line with Good clinical practices and National drug authority guidelines
• Develop patient management plans for TB Clients as per the client’s T.B status and follow them up until they normalize in line with Good clinical practices
• Perform the roles of a Quality improvement team member and monitor implementation of QI projects for HF in liaison with the HF in charge in line with MoH guidelines for QI
• Prepare and present periodic findings regarding critical cases n at case conferences, and Health facility continuous medical education sessions as per clinicians’ schedule to promote in continuous professional development.
• Provide technical support to at least three to four small volume health facilities in his or her catchment area.

Person Specification
• Diploma in Clinical medicine and community health or equivalent
• Active registration with the Allied health professionals’ council
• At least two years of experience in clinic or hospital-based services.
• Experience in HIV/AIDS and ART management is an added advantage.
• Willingness to work and live in rural areas is required.