Professional Nurse AYFS - Maruleng Rural at Anova Health Institute

We are looking for a Professional Nurse: AYFS to focus on working and improving 95-95-95 among children and adolescents (0-24 years) services and prevention services in Mopani, prioritizing on adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) ages between 10 -24 year and working with other DREAMS partners. He/she will ensure that AGYW are provided with relevant care that meets their needs, through a holistic approach strategy, as part of a team of professionals working in Anova.
Key Duties and Responsibilities

Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services (AYFS)

• Identify, establish and maintain AYFS platforms at facilities (PHC and CHC)
• Conduct AYFS assessments at PHC facilities
• Ensure that facilities are adhering to 10 national AYFS standards
• Establish bi-directional referral channels (community/facility/TVETs) referral channels to AYFS
• Scale up youth friendly health services e.g. condom services, HTS including HIV self-screening and contraception mix, STI screening and treatment at facilities and TVETs
• Linkage to Prevention and other services (post-violence care)
• Ensure that eligible individuals mainly adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are linked to prevention services and retained as needed at facilities and TVETs
• Ensure that facilities are implementing GBV L.I.V.E.S model
• Roll out DREAMS in all sub-districts supported by Anova
• Ensure that DREAMS is being implemented in all and eligible Adolescent girls and young women are being enrolled
• Train health care workers in facilities in DREAMS
• Conduct DREAMS impact surveys
• Implement Family care day models in facilities to ensure successful linkage to treatment, retention and adherence
• Train health care workers in paediatric and adolescent ART management

Strengthening Internal Role and Administration

• Support all other Anova staff with planning, organizing and execution of adolescent and young people program (AYP) activities
• Provide regular oral and/written program updates
• Assist with monthly statistics collection
• Attend all team meetings as per invite
• Timely submission of weekly plans, request and reports
• Monitor and evaluate DREAMS programming and progress per PEPFAR MER guidelines and COP

Supervision, Monitoring and Stakeholder Engagement

• Supervise and monitor adolescent enrolled nurses and youth connectors (peer educators and linkage officers) activities at sub-districts
• Form and maintain partnerships with other implementing partners
• Train and mentor health care workers, youth connectors (peer educators and linkage officers), operational managers, campus nurses and AYFS champions to deliver AYFS and collect data
• Train clinicians and non-clinicians on AYFS, GBV, PrEP, YCC and other models as per neeed

Any other tasks as agreed with line manager
Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• Grade 12 (Matric)
• Professional Nurse with midwifery diploma/ degree and registered with the South African Nursing Council (SANC)
• Local youth between 20 to 30 years of age
• NIMART trained, mentored and certified as competent
• 2 to 3 years’ experience in HIV and TB management
• Experience in supervising a team
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good report writing skills
• Proficiency in MS Office

Closing Date 12 July 2023