Current Vacancies at Right To Care

Description

• To provide Comprehensive Quality Nursing Care to patients at all service delivery points, including pre, intra and post circumcision.

Requirements

Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience :

• Diploma in Nursing (General, Community, Psychiatry) and Midwifery.
• A valid South African driver’s license endorsed with a PrDP (Professional Driving Permit) is compulsory.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience :

• A Diploma in Nursing and VMMC Certificate.
• Two to three years working experience as Professional Nurse in the surgical environment.
• Two years NGO working experience, Infection Control
• Certificate, VMMC Certificate, HIV Management Certificate.

 Key Performance Areas:

• Assist to align demand creation and clinical efforts to ensure collaboration in working towards targets.
• Assist in provision of coaching and mentorship to Demand Creation Officers and Social Mobilisers regarding demand creation programme performance.
• Assist in drafting of annual Operational plan.
• Assist in drafting demand creation plans as required.
• Ensure availability of suppliers and equipment’s
• Assist to develop and implement planning and reporting systems for the VMMC MOVE team to ensure that they perform and reach allocated targets.
• Ensure vehicle inspection is done weekly and report is submitted to line manager.
• Ensure stock and suppliers management/control and timely reporting of any missing or broken to line manager.

Clinical Output:

• Implement Voluntary Male Circumcision Programme (VMMC) at facility level in accordance with provincial and SA national guidelines.
• Ensure comprehensive package of VMMC services available.
• Maintain and respond to QA assessments.
• Chair/attend staff meetings.
• Ensure all Circumcised Clients are followed up as per SA/WHO guidelines.
• Management of VMMC related adverse events effectively.
• Obtain informed consent from clients by providing them with essential information as per the National
• Department of Health (NDoH) and PEPFAR VMMC/HTS guidelines.
• Provide age- and culturally appropriate group and individual counselling to clients within language of their understanding.
• Screen patients for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) as per current STI guidelines and Tuberculosis (TB) by asking the four standard TB screening questions and refer patients accordingly.
• Ensure that the key elements of VMMC education are included in counselling sessions (i.e. risks, benefits, description of surgery, explanation of partial protective effect of VMMC procedure, VMMC being a permanent procedure, importance of knowing HIV status, and post-operative care).Conduct pre- and post-HIV counselling and testing as per most recent NDoH HTS guidelines.

Linkage to Care and Treatment:

• Record personal and contact information of newly tested HIV positive clients in the linkage to care and treatment register.
• Conduct Active and/or supported linkage to care and treatment of all newly diagnosed HIV positive clients.
• Ensure all clients tested HIV positive are linked to care and started treatment and record on the register accordingly.
• Confirm that all linked clients have reached a care and treatment facility within a week of referral.
• Follow up on all linked clients at one-, three- and six months into care and treatment.
• Verify that all linked clients are still in care and treatment and adhere to their treatment.
• Receive and process all HIV negative clients that are referred from HTS partners for VMMC services.

Quality Assurance:

• Ensure all source documents are available and well utilised by the Roving team.
• Ensure utilisation of PPE materials by all staff at the facility.
• Ensure clinical staff conducts Medical Circumcision in line with Minimum Surgical Procedure Standards.
• Ensure adherence to Infection Prevention and Control Standards.
• Ensure all follow-up and review of clients are conducted and documented accordingly.
• Ensure availability and correct Supply Chain Management processes of Supplies, Equipment and Environment.
• Ensure Emergency Management/Referral Protocol are adhered to.
• Assist in verification of all data before reporting.

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Description

     Minimum Qualifications and Experience 

• Grade 10/Standard 8
• VMMC certificate
• Two years working experience as a cleaner in health facilities

     Desirable Experience:

• Two years working experience as a cleaner in a VMMC facility

Requirements

      Program Output:

• Cleaning all areas of the VMMC clinic site, including offices, exam rooms, operating rooms, pre and post assessment, waiting area counselling rooms, toilets, kitchen and the entrance hall
• Assists in carrying out infection control guidelines and universal precautions to avoid occupational exposure.
• Assists in carrying out infection control guidelines and universal precautions to avoid occupational exposure.
• Takes reasonable care for the health, safety, and welfare of him/herself and other employees in accordance with VMMC site operations.
• Daily cleaning of the human tissue fridge
• Adheres to always wearing safety equipment and clothing.
• Daily carbolising of the theatre equipment’s
• Dis-infecting of all the MMC rooms from reception, waiting area.
• Emptying and segregating of waste bins at MMC facility
• Daily cleaning of the kitchen which includes periodic cleaning of the refrigerator and microwave.
• Cleaning and of the specimen refrigerator
• Using of colour coded mops and cloths for cleaning different areas to prevent cross infection.
• Cleaning of all rooms in Mobile Unit and making it clean to provide VMMC services.
• Adherence to Infection Prevention and Control Standards.
• Assist and serving of refreshments as when and where required.
• Ordering of cleaning materials and equipment as the need arise.
• Cleaning of all staff and client toilet daily and restocking of a all bathrooms with supplies- hand wash, toilet paper etc,
• Responsible for collecting and disposing waste to the facility designated area.
• Manage and keep inventory of all cleaning supplies and material.
• Monitor and order cleaning suppliers.
• Assist in asset management and verification.
• Assist keeping stock inventory and management of stock cards.
• Dilution of the cleaning solution according to the set standard (manufacturing instructions).

     Reporting:

• Report any incidents to line manager.
• Reporting of any maintenance issues you may come across while cleaning.

      Business Continuity:

• Perform any other relevant and reasonable tasks within your scope of practice which may be required from time to time.
• Keep abreast with RTC Care policies.

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Description

• Right To Care is looking for a suitable qualified clerk to be part of its operations.

Requirements

      Minimum Qualifications and Experience 

• Matric (Senior Certificate)
• Qualification in Office Administration
• Basic Computer Literacy
• Valid code 10 driver's licence
• 1 Year clerical experience

       Desirable Experience:

• Two (2) to three (3) years clerical experience and basic VMMC knowledge

      Key Performance Areas :

• Capture and scan all consent and follow-up forms from Right to Care-supported VMMC sites onto various systems.  All original documents must be submitted to the District Office within seven days after completion of the circumcision.
• Record all consent forms onto VMMC registers.
• Ensure data accuracy by identifying data quality errors and communicate these to the relevant stakeholders.
• Verify the completeness of the consent-, follow-up forms and patient registers.
• Verify the completeness and accuracy of information captured against the source document.  This verification must include both Right to Care and Department of Health data systems.
• Screen all potential clients and ensure that they meet the specified and agreed criteria in order to be circumcised.
• Report and submit daily, weekly, and monthly statistics from supported VMMC sites as per agreed deadlines, reporting criteria and procedures.
• In collaboration with the national call centre, ensure that all leads are followed up and scheduled accurately with regular reporting as per national call centre requirements.
• Ensure that the site visit and mentorship books are updated at all times.
• Provide assistance to all people as per the Batho Pele and Patients’ Rights Charter principles.
• Ensure proper stock control, and safety and security of assets at fixed sites.  

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Description

• To plan, coordinate and offer medical male circumcision.

Requirements

      Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Medical Practice
• At least 1-year experience in a Public Health setting
• At least 1-year experience in a surgical setting at a Medical Male Circumcision facility 

Key Performance Areas:

• Maintain and respond to QA assessments.
• Implement Voluntary Male Circumcision Programme at facility level in accordance with Provincial and South African national guide.
• Ensure Comprehensive package of VMMC services available.
• Management of VMMC related adverse events
• Participate in research projects relevant to the specific field
• Liaise with the Outreach Officer and Social Mobilisers to ensure effective recruitment of clients
• Keep abreast with developments in the field
• Familiar with legislation, standards, policies, and procedures

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Description

      Minimum Qualifications and Experience :

• Matric (Grade 12)
• A valid South African driver’s license endorsed with a PrDP (Professional Driving Permit) is compulsory
• Two years experience in organising and overseeing health promotion events, activities and projects at a community level cultural specific context
• Excellent written and verbal communication in both English and local vernaculars

Requirements

     Key Performance Areas:

• Introduce the VMMC programme to communities and conduct profiling by means of various sources.
• Based on the results obtained from community profiling, allocate Social Mobilisers to various supported areas by means of GIS Mapping in order to ensure proper coverage of target/pivot populations.
• Coordinate and supervise demand creation activities performed by Social Mobilisers within various Right to Care-supported areas.
• Schedule demand creation activities (i.e. information sessions, talks, events, etc.). aimed at promoting VMMC in designated areas (i.e. door-to-door visits, events at taxi ranks, youth clubs, malls, etc.).
• Create appropriate demand creation training plans based on training needs analyses.
• Engage with clinical roving teams to create accurate and proper service delivery schedules.
• Draft and submit weekly reports that outline activities completed and the number of leads.
• Schedule and maintain a monthly calendar of VMMC outreach activities.
• Submit weekly and monthly reports of the social mobilisers’ performance to the Demand Creation Coordinator.
• Actively engage with community leaders and structures in communities surrounding VMMC facilities to promote VMMC services and to identify demand creation opportunities.
• Actively seek out opportunities for Social Mobilisers to participate in events and collaborate with organisations, government and/or schools for VMMC service delivery.
• Collaborate with local stakeholders (Community Based Organisations and other partners) to ensure proper coordination of social mobilisation campaigns..
• Mentor Social Mobilisers by addressing their challenges and barriers that prohibit them from reaching their targets
• Conduct weekly performance reviews of targets reached by Social Mobilisers.

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Description

The role will be responsible for ensuring efficient and effective monitoring, and evaluation of programme activities centred on results-based management and ensure learning for programme planning and decision making. The role supports the district team to ensure all programmes and projects are implemented, documented and reported on time. The role also provides leadership and guidance in the implementation of district level monitoring and evaluation technical assistance. Deep dive analyses of program data, especially data residing in the Qode Knowledge centre and directing program implementation accordingly  is a key  deliverable of this position.

Requirements

Required Minimum Qualifications and Experience 

• Tertiary Qualification  in Database Development /Data Systems /IT or Informatics
• Post-matric certificate in computer literacy
• Basic knowledge of HIV/AIDS
• Experience in working with US government or other bilateral donors
• Ability to conduct data analysis (both quantitative and qualitative)
• Must be computer literate and must be able to use Windows, MS Office, PowerPoint, and Excel as well as statistical analytical package such as STATA, SPSS etc.
• Proficiency in English
• At least 3 years’ experience in programme monitoring and evaluation, managing HIV/AIDS-related data, including data verification / quality assurance
• Project coordination and implementation experience
• 3 year experience in data management
• Good working knowledge of relational database applications and data management systems, SQL, Visual, Dbase, CS-Pro, ACCESS etc.
• Working knowledge of Good Clinical Practices, health systems, programme development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation process and related regulatory requirements for National Department of Health and Donors
• Experience in data management and analysis of District Health Information system (e.g: DHIS, ETR.net, & Tier.net)
• Knowledge of international donor-funded M&E requirements, USAID and other international donor experience preferred

 Desirable Education and Experience

• Degree or Diploma in Public Health, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, or related field
• Post graduate qualification in Data Analytics and Monitoring and Evaluation/Strategic Information will be a distinct advantage.
• Experience in managing staff and mentoring M&E staff
• Capacity building and experience conducting monitoring and evaluation experience for various stakeholders
• Experience in District Health Information Systems (TIER.net, DHIS, ETR.net and DATIM)

  Key Performance Area (KPIs)

• Project Leadership and stakeholder management 
• Coordination and implementation of RTC M&E framework 
• Providing M&E and data management as well as Technical Assistance 
• Conduct routine M&E duties and data collection
• Data management and verifying monthly reports
• Data Analysis
• Contribute to the enhancement of the programme data management systems
• Data capturing of programme monitoring and evaluation data
• Reporting data to stakeholders
• Data management support
• Any other relevant and reasonable tasks which may be required from time to time

     Closing Date : 01 December 2023