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Purpose of the position

• The Enrolled Nurse’s primary responsibility is to support the implementation of strategic and tactical interventions at Department of Health (DoH) facilities and sites through the provision of direct HIV & TB related clinical services to patients and clients, namely HIV Testing Services, referring HIV-positive persons, ensuring linkage to care and implementation of decanting strategies.She / he will drive the 90-90-90 HIV and TB agendas for adults and children by ensuring that DOH clinical protocols and guidelines are being implemented by target facilities and that facility staff are continuously identifying and addressing clinical issues in order to reach 90-90-90 targets. The Enrolled Nurse will work in conjunction with a registered nurse/ professional nurse on site.

Key Accountabilities (included but not limited to)
In Your Role You Will

• Provide voluntary and confidential HIV Testing Services
• Linkage of all HIV positive patients to care
• Maintain and monitor patients’ adherence to treatment regimen to assess success of counselling
• Support adherence by educating patients about self-management of HIV/AIDS and/or TB, tailoring instructions to patient’s individuals circumstances
• Refer newly diagnosed HIV positive patients for ART initiation and ensure linkage to care
• Conduct the vitals examination and record results for all patients seen
• Screen all patients for TB
• Take bloods (and/or sputum) for all HIV positive patients and TB suspects as per guidelines under direct and/or indirect supervision of PN
• Educate and enrol patients into differential care models streams when eligible
• Contact patients to return at scheduled intervals for Viral Loads in accordance with treatment guidelines
• Track, Trace and Refer Early Missed and Late Missed appointments, LTFU and uLTFU patients to WBOTs, Community Partners or as directed for return to care
• Contact patients who miss appointments within 3 days of missed appointment and reschedule Provide health education on health-related issues such as nutrition, retesting, family planning, etc, in patient waiting rooms and appropriate community events
• Participate in organizing and staffing HIV/AIDS awareness events
• Ensuring patient confidentiality
• Safekeeping of patient records
• Maintain current filing system
• Systematic daily filing of patients’ patient’s records including blood results
• Create patient list from appointment system and pre pull files/folders for next 2 days’ appointments
• Registers, daily tally and monthly summary forms always available, filed for 5 years (send it to archive after 5years)
• Ensure availability of updated data collection tools and daily distribution to all consulting rooms
• Daily retrieving of patients’ files, daily collection of patients’ raw data from all relevant facility’s registers for entry into clinical stationery
• Compare tracking list provided to WBOTs, Community Partners, other with appointment system to ensure patients return to care
• Compare phone log for missed appointments against facility daily appointments to ensure patients prompt return after a missed visit

 

In Your Role As Enrolled Nurse You Will

• Have knowledge of diagnosis, clinical management and on-going antiretroviral use in HIV and TB exposed and infected children and adults
• Be able to diagnose and clinically manage HIV and TB infected adults and children.
• Have knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Understand healthcare systems and relationships in resource limited settings
• Understand the local political landscapes involved at Facility, Sub-district and District level
• Ensure that daily, weekly and monthly standards are met
• Ensure that standard counselling care provided, and referral executed for advanced care to medical doctors and specialists as recorded and in accordance with treatment protocols
• Demonstrate high quality counselling care evidenced by patient outcomes
• Ensure that all newly diagnosed HIV positive patients referred for treatment and linkage to care confirmed and documented
• Refer all TB positive patients for treatment and ensure linkage to care
• Ensure that Eligible patients are enrolled into decanting programmes
• Ensure that Viral load testing conducted on all patients in accordance with treatment guidelines
• Ensure that LTFU patient numbers are reduced, and patients are brought back into care
• Ensure that efficient appointment system implemented at facility with minimal missed visits
• Ensure that Weekly HIV/AIDS awareness events and health education sessions within and outside facilities
• Have linkage to care of all HIV positive patients
• Ensure correct and accurate information are captured.
• Ensure filing system is systematic and easily and readily available for Office use and retrieval of data.
• Ensure reduced number of patients LTFU
• Ensure reduced number of missed appointments
• Ensure Increase in patient retention and adherence numbers
• Ensure All DSD captured on BR reporting tools correctly, consistently and timeously

 

Qualifications
Essential qualifications

• Standard 10 (Grade 12) / N3 or equivalent, current registration with SANC is essential

 

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience & skills 2 years relevant experience

 

Experience & Skills

• 1 year relevant experience

 

Personal qualities & Behavioural competencies
Personal qualities

• Ability to connect the dots, make linkages and collaboratively work across the organization to optimize the client experience
• Be solution focused
• Has a customer centric mindset
• Able to connect with clients at different levels
• Maintain confidentiality

 

Behavioural Competencies

• Results orientation

 

BroadReach Culture Cornerstones

• We serve a mission greater than ourselves
• We do better everyday
• We are solutions driven not problem focused
• We turn all customers into raving fans

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Purpose of the position

• Provides administrative support and assists with capturing of Data into TIER.Net and WebDHIS. To ensure that all data for allocated facilities is validated, complete and correct. To ensure that all patients that are due for tracking and tracing are verified on TIER.Net and the Master Tier.Net District Database has been updated on a regular basis (daily for HIF).

Key Accountabilities (included but not limited to)
In Your Role You Will

• Ensure that Lost to Follow Up patients brought back to care are updated on TIER.Net
• Ensure daily data capture from patient records (including lab results) intoTIER.Net within agreed timeframes with high standard of accuracy
• Registration and updating of Clubs on TIER.Net
• Collect and collate tally sheets
• Daily retrieving of patients’ files, daily collection of patients’ raw data from all relevant facility’s registers
• Back and Live capturing for HCT, Pre Art and TB on TIER.Net
• Receive data from PHC staff
• Follow up on outstanding data and verify data
• Submit monthly Summary report
• Print daily appointment lists
• Print weekly Missed appointment reports for tracing
• Print weekly VL Due Reports
• Print monthly report
• Print quarterly report
• Submit weekly HCT statistics
• Daily submission of TIER.Net Dispatches to Team Leads
• Respond to all information request in consultation with Operational Manager
• Ensuring Data quality and integrity
• Liaise with the resident Data Capture clerk, Professional Nurses and the Facility Manager on TB and HIV program data management issues
• Support the Facility Manager to compile the monthly and quarterly data
• Collect and collate data relevant to the and HIV program’s goals, working closely with the Data Coordinators
• Data cleaning, editing and maintenance of database at the facility on newly diagnosed TB and HIV patients
• Escalate issues to Data Quality and Use Officer/ Community Linkage Officer/Data Management Officer as needed
• Submit weekly reports to TL on activities
• Visual eyeballing
• Identifying outliers on indicators from pivot tables
• Identify, resolve or query missing data and errors observed during data entry, electronic checks or manual reviews
• Verification of TB and HIV program data for consistency, completeness and accuracy and submit statistical reports when required
• Attend MDT (multi-disciplinary team) meeting
• Data dictionary and indicator definitions available and in-service training to staff
• Present data to clinic information committee
• Update and maintain Facility Data Management File i.e. Monthly & Quarterly reports, SOPs and Guidelines
• Regular backups in accordance to policies

 

In Your Role As Data Capturer You Will

• Ensure all Information management is updated as per policies stipulated
• Verify report submission data as per stipulated timelines
• Report on the existing outliers.
• Ensure clear and concise reporting
• Ensure data on reports is accurate
• Ensure escalations are done timeously to meet the required targets and deadlines
• Ensure patient records daily data is updated as per the stats targets set.
• Ensure collection of data is accurate with minimal errors.
• Ensure all back logs are managed as per the set targets
• Ensuring correct and accurate information are captured.
• Ensure filing system is systematic and easily and readily available for Office use and retrieval of data.
• Tracking and Tracing of all patients lists provided to the Call Centre and securing appointments

 

Qualifications
Essential qualifications

• Standard 10 (Grade 12) / N3 or equivalent
• Desirable qualifications

 

Experience & Skills

• 1 year relevant experience

 

Personal qualities

• Ability to connect the dots, make linkages and collaboratively work across the organization to optimize the client experience
• Be solution focused
• Has a customer centric mindset
• Able to connect with clients at different levels
• Maintain confidentiality

 

Behavioural competencies

• Results orientation

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Purpose of the position

• The Sub-District Manager is a key member of the district-level management team. The Sub-District Manager supports the District Lead to deliver the APACE project and is responsible for achieving the project targets in sub-district focus areas. The Sub-District Manager manages the Fixed Teams, Roving Teams, and Hospital Teams to ensure quality and consistency in the delivery of the package of interventions to achieve the 90-90-90 targets. With responsibility for the success of the program in the sub-districts, the Sub-District Manager delivers, with fidelity, the goals, objectives, and activities in the sub-district; manages and develops program staff; coordinates partners; maintains good working relationships with the funder (OGAC & USAID), host government, stakeholders, and local partners; manages donor reporting; ensures compliance with all funder and host country requirements; and ensures high-quality cost effective delivery of services. At all times the Sub-District Manager must be a leading brand ambassador, adhere to the highest ethical and legal standards, and create a fair, positive and equitable work environment.

Key Accountabilities (included but not limited to)
In Your Role As Sub-District Manager You Will
Achieve the required results

• Attain the sub-district targets, goals and objectives (overall and on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis)
• Ensure operational plans are in place and aligned to achieving the targets within specified timeframes
• Provide effective transformational leadership and management in the district
• Provide sub-district leadership in project planning, including the development of annual work plans and budgets; help guide and oversee the alignment of the budget to expected results; and review annual budgets and quarterly reports
• Provide effective project and program management and coordination across departments, units and teams including sub-awardees, vendors, other PEPFAR implementing partners, government, PEPFAR agencies and other stakeholders in the district
• Provide effective stewardship and accountability over financial resources
• Implement the performance management system and drive the district team to continuously improve
• Ensure compliance with USAID rules and regulations, local country laws and BroadReach policies and procedures
• Fulfil sub-district reporting requirements
• Proactively identify any risks across the districts and ensure mitigation plans are developed and executed accordingly
• Build and sustain a strong, competent, informed and enthusiastic district teams
• Ensure that the best and most competent talent is hired in the sub-district
• Lead, manage, mentor and develop key team members
• Create and foster healthy, positive, collegial safe and motivating work force and work environment

Support and strengthen the BroadReach brand and reputation

• Represent BroadReach in sub-district and provincial forums to share the successes and experiences from the district
• Participate in key communications internally and externally
• Serve as a brand ambassador and inculcate brand ambassadorship throughout the organisation

 

Qualifications
Essential qualifications

• A nursing qualification or a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as public health or business/public administration

 

Experience & Skills

• Minimum 5-7 years of professional experience in health or international development
• Strong understanding of the district health system
• 3 or more years of experience with donor-funded development programs/ PEPFAR-funded HIV/AIDS initiatives, preferably within public health in South Africa would be advantageous
• Demonstrated experience in successful program start-up, program close out and establishment of sustainability which goes beyond the period of the donor funding
• Proven ability to establish strong working relationships with a variety of stakeholders including government representatives, non-profit associations, donors, media, academic and research institutes, and other stakeholders
• Strong Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication

 

Personal qualities & behavioural competencies

• Customer-centred mindset
• Operational leadership and management skills with the ability to foster followership, loyalty, commitment and build high performing teams
• Sense of introspection, self-awareness and ability to foster positive working relationships and work collaboratively across the organization to optimize the client experience
• Solutions focused, open minded, creative, innovative whilst being extremely decisive, action and results oriented
• Ability to endure failure, learn rapidly from it, get back on track and meet targets
• Socially and culturally respectful, aware, adaptable and adept at finding acceptable and productive ways forward though complex constellations of stakeholders, interests and agendas
• Maturity, discernment and able to maintain confidentiality when required

 

Behavioural Competencies

• Accountability
• Results Orientation
• Strategic Thinking
• Client Orientation
• Business Acumen
• Project Management