Available Roles at TB HIV Care

Purpose of the position:

• To provide Home and Community Based Services as set out in the SLA and Dept of Health NPO Service Package and within the scope of practice, including implementing and coordinating Community Oriented Primary Care within a defined geographic node. Duties focus on wellness, health promotion, prevention of ill health and home-based care services, and supervising and coordinating the team of community health workers to address primary health care services for individuals, families and community.

Minimum Requirements    

• Degree/Diploma or relevant Nursing qualification
• Registration with the South African Nursing Council as a Professional Nurse
• At least 2 years’ experience in nursing post registration
• Clear criminal record
• Valid Code 08 Drivers licence Own Transport
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Fluent in IsiXhosa and/or English languages

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Implements community oriented primary care activities in a defined geographic area
• Coordinates and manages the community health workers and rehab CHWs
• Provides awareness outreach in the community, workplace, ECD centres, schools in line with the Dept of Health priorities, the Health calendar, and health promotion priorities including the four seasons of prevention and promotion package
• Promotes service delivery and identifies training needs
• Responsible for necessary reports and records
• Appropriate referral of all cases identified in the community

Skills and Competencies    

• Report-writing skills
• Good communication skills
• Good attention to detail and accuracy
• Organisational and planning skills
• Good problem solving ability

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Purpose of the position:

• The Regional Manager will lead a dynamic team that provides direct service delivery and technical support across all aspects of the Care and Treatment (C&T) programme. The focus is to provide support and monitoring to various layers of the program including implementing staff and evaluation of health interventions. The regional manager will support and monitor implementation of Operation Phuthuma, HIV and TB clinical cascade performance to ensure integrated TB and HIV screening, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and continuity of care aimed at strengthening the health system. The incumbent will be familiar with PEPFAR (CDC) and National Department of Health initiatives in order to balance funder and NDoH priorities. 

Minimum Requirements    

• B. Cur or equivalent degree/diploma plus MPH or equivalent qualification
• HIV and TB clinical management
• Financial management experience
• Organisational QI methodology
• Minimum of 5 years senior project/programme management level experience (preferably in the PEPFAR space)
• Experience in drafting final project/programme budget as well as performance reports and work plans for high level stakeholders
• Experience in QI implementation and formal clinical facilitation will be advantageous
• Demonstrate ability to interpret and utilise complex programmatic data at a senior management level
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Office
• Valid registration with SANC or HPCSA
• Willingness to travel extensively, as required
• Ability to communicate in isiXhosa and English or any other official South African language
• Valid code 08 driver’s licence
• Clear criminal record

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Advocates for integrated TB and HIV screening, diagnosis and treatment as well as continuity of care, understanding of testing modalities such as ITS, HIVSS, SNS, community -based ART initiation and adherence to antiretroviral therapy
• Adopts targeted screening for TB and STI amongst high-risk populations
• Develops and coordinates the implementation of differentiated care models to strengthen the health system and render integrated TB/HIV and STI care to achieve the global targets including 95-95-95 for TB and HIV, and 70-70-70 for STIs
• Collaborates closely with districts and the province in the implementation of Operation Phuthuma and ensure that health systems within the district address individual, family and community capacity to increase consumer awareness and behaviour change and promote health, prevent diseases, and enhance the appropriate use of health services, including mental health, youth health, HIV and AIDS, TB and non-communicable diseases
• Evaluates health interventions adopting QI methodology to analyse TB and HIV screening outcomes
• Supports the use of robust electronic data collection systems to assess the provision of health interventions, and sets up rapid appraisals, and in-depth evaluations
• Fosters an environment in which research aspects of TB and HIV care can succeed
• Supports the implementation of improvement projects and innovations in health facilities
• Supports facility, district and provincial QI reporting and data utilisation, linked to operational microplanning
• Perform annual performance appraisals
• Chair disciplinary enquiries
• Coach, mentor and develop team members
• Assists the programme director in drafting programme budgets and to monitor and control resource utilisation for optimal cost efficiency, value and impact

Skills and Competencies    

• Excellent communication skills
• Leadership
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Stakeholder management
• Reporting and statistics

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Purpose of the position: 

• This post will provide psychosocial services under the supervision of a social worker within the context of an HIV Priority Populations Prevention programme focusing on adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and Adolescent boys and young men (ABYM). 

Minimum Requirements    

• Grade 12 or equivalent  
• Certificate in Social Auxiliary Work from a recognized college or institution
• Two years training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 2 years relevant working experience
• Must be registered with SACSSP (South African Council for Social Service Professions)
• Proficiency in English and isiXhosa languages
• Computer literate in MS office advantageous
• Clear criminal record
• Valid code 8 driver’s license 

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Conducts comprehensive psycho-social assessments of AGYW and their families  
• Conducts House hold profiling using profiling tools 
• Provide minimum package of community-based care and refer to social worker /facility for continuum of care 
• Supports Social Workers in assessing the needs of AGYW & ABYM and parent’s/care givers and guardians 
• Provides structural programmes including SASA  
• Networks with all relevant stakeholders  
• Assists with the identification of advocacy issues  
• Assist in implementation of youth care clubs 
• Provides referrals according to AGYW & ABYM needs to social worker and other external networks 
• Submits monthly reports to the supervisor 
• Records and maintains accurate and detailed patient information and interventions  

Skills and Competencies    

• Excellent communication skills 
• Attention to detail 
• Computer literacy and IT skills 
• Problem-solving 
• Stakeholder management 
• Excellent organisational and administration skills 
• Reporting and statistics 

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Purpose of the position:

• The Nurse Clinician (VMMC CQI) will provide technical support, clinical mentoring and perform quality assurance for all VMMC activities within the Correctional Services Programme.

Minimum Requirements    

• Relevant Professional Nursing Qualification with Diploma in Nursing or BCUR Degree
• SANC Registered
• Dispensing licence
• Relevant VMMC training
• Qualification in Quality Assurance will be an added advantage
• A minimum 2 years’ experience in providing VMMC Continuous Quality Improvement
• Ability to demonstrate VMMC provision skills
• Valid Code 08 Drivers Licence
• Own Transport

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Conduct weekly CQI assessments at all THC VMMC Sites,
• Generate CQI gap analysis reports and assist sites to develop Quality Improvement Plans
• Serve as a provincial resource to support the efficient, high quality implementation of PEPFAR/CDC funded VMMC services
• Champion VMMC quality, safety, risk management, data use, and data transparency among VMMC service providers, DCS Clinicians, municipal, district, and provincial government stakeholders
• Support VMMC service providers to perform continuous quality improvement (CQI) with paper-based and digital instruments
• Regularly summarize and reports activities, outcomes and challenges to THC VMMC Programme coordinator and Regional Coordinators and M&E Lead
• Routinely analyse quality data from province
• Compile and submit monthly quality reports for the DCS Regions
• Attend and support provincial CQI team meetings
• Ensure provision of effective Mentorship of all staff at VMMC implementing sites
• Compile and submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports
• Support mentoring of all VMMC service providers and CSP staff
• Support the deployment of analytic technologies within the province
• Draft high quality technical and programme documentation and presentations for dissemination
• Conduct stakeholder analyses, develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans
• Support the development and running of DOH governance systems and processes
• Support THC M&E Team with monthly and ad hoc reporting
• Provide Strategic Information support to THC and PDOH

Skills and Competencies    

• Excellent communication skills
• Leadership
• Attention to detail
• Computer literacy and IT skills
• Knowledge and application of QI approaches
• Problem solving
• Stakeholder management
• Excellent organisational and administration skills
• Reporting and statistics