VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Title: Site Focal Point
Number of Positions: 01
Location: Kribi - South
Reports to: Site Lead/ Integrated Service Delivery Manager
Applications Due : December 11, 2023
Duration: 03 months
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a global leader in the fight against HIV and AIDS in children. It operates in 16 countries and over 5,000 sites worldwide to prevent the vertical transmission of HIV to children and to help those already infected. Today, thanks to the successful work of the Foundation and its partners, pediatric AIDS has been virtually eliminated in the United States. With a global workforce of more than 3,100 people - nine out of 10 of whom work in the field - the Foundation's global mission is to implement HIV prevention, care and treatment programs; advance innovative research; and conduct strategic, targeted global advocacy to bring dramatic change to the lives of millions of women, children and families worldwide.
Thanks to funding from CDC / PEPFAR Cameroon for the Atteindre95 project, EGPAF is assisting the Ministry of Public Health and the Government of Cameroon to ensure that 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95% of them are put on antiretroviral treatment, and 95% of them have a suppressed viral load.
Position Summary:
The Site Focal Point will be responsible for supporting the management of the HIV project and improving the delivery of HIV clinical services in the health facility by providing a package of integrated HIV care and treatment services as part of the ATTEINDRE95 project.
The site focal point reports to the Integrated Service Delivery Manager.
Specific roles and responsibilities:
- Develop and submit to the District Coordinator of Integrated HIV Services a monthly budgeted work plan in line with the project work plan, clearly showing planned activities, expected results, deadlines, targets and verification indicators.
- Fully coordinate the implementation of the monthly work plan in line with the budget in the most efficient manner;
- Ensure the effective management of the multidisciplinary team on site to achieve project objectives;
Hold weekly and monthly coordination meetings with staff involved in the HIV/AIDS program to review program performance, identify problems and possible solutions;
- Conduct weekly and monthly site data validation meetings;
- Organize monthly feedback meetings with Health Facility Managers to provide high-level residential feedback and present challenges and opportunities;
- Ensure proper data collection, reporting and site performance with regard to HIV/AIDS care and treatment in the health facility;
- Prepare and submit monthly activity reports to the District Coordinator of Integrated HIV Services.
- In collaboration with the UPEC Coordinator and Major, ensure the supervision and coordination of UPEC staff.
- Organize staff coaching sessions on screening services and test and treat implementation.
- Ensure that the site has all screening algorithms and SOPs, including screening of exposed children.
- Supervise screening activities at the site and in the community, supporting targeted screening using the screening tool.
- Ensure that testing is carried out systematically for all clients in high-yield entry points (TB clinic, malnutrition, STI, ANC), including children and adolescents.
- Help the site to identify exposed children with no final outcome at 18-24 months and organize their testing according to the National algorithm for screening exposed children.
- Coach site staff in the use of the cohort monitoring register.
- Ensure that each exposed child has a properly completed medical file (green file) (date of birth, place of birth, enrolment date, location map, parents' or guardians' telephone numbers, etc.).
- Coach site staff on the use and completion of screening and data collection tools (quality assurance register, community screening register).
- Coach site staff on the implementation of same day ARV initiation (SDAI), and help the site set up a follow-up plan for missed initiation opportunities.
- Ensure the initiation of ARV treatment with DTG-based protocols for all new positive cases.
- Ensure that ICT services are systematically offered to :
- All newly identified positive cases;
- Clients with high viral load;
- VDP patients returned to care.
- Ensure that all eligible contacts are tested (including sexual contacts, biological contacts, biological children, sibling contacts in the case of an index child), and that test results are documented in the ICT register.
- Ensure that all pregnant women tested negative in the first ANC are re-tested in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy, and documented in the ANC register.
- Ensure that all partners of pregnant women are tested and the test results documented.
- Coach site staff on the implementation of SNS and its documentation in the appropriate registers.
- Coach site staff on the implementation of Handshake model activities with KPs community partners in the site and ensure proper documentation of data.
- Coach site staff on screening for intimate partner violence (IPV), adverse effects and first-line response.
- Coach site staff on the documentation of GBV, IPV, adverse events and ensure effective documentation of all cases in the GBV and IPV registers.
- Ensure that screening activities respect confidentiality and patient rights.
- Support site dispensation activities by ensuring that all services to be offered to clients are provided during dispensation.
- Support site dispensing activities by ensuring that all services to be offered to clients are provided during dispensing.
- Help sites to identify patients with psychosocial and mental health problems and refer them to the appropriate services (psychosocial team, psychologist, OBC, etc.).
- Coach PSAs on the use and completion of daily appointment logs and tracking tools.
- Ensure daily documentation of dispensing and site tracking activities in the appropriate registers.
- Ensure staff coaching on advanced disease screening (AHD), and their documentation in conventional registers.
- Coach staff on the implementation of differentiated models of care and on increasing customer demand for differentiated care according to the differentiated models available at the sites for which they are responsible.
- Coach staff on the appropriate documentation of differentiated care models, and ensure the effective implementation of these differentiated care models.
- Coach site staff on the announcement of children's serological status, and supervise the announcement process in the sites for which they are responsible.
- Ensure that the site has the tools needed to announce status, in particular the "disclosure form".
- Ensure that the site has consent forms for all children.
- Coach site staff on the disclosure of children's HIV status and supervise the disclosure process at the sites under his/her responsibility.
- Ensure that the site has the tools needed to announce status, in particular the "disclosure form".
- Ensure that the site has consent forms for emancipated adolescents.
- Ensure that all children and adolescents are monitored under an optimized regime.
- Ensure that all orphans and vulnerable children are enrolled in the OVC program.
- Ensure that all services offered to OVC are documented in the bi-directional register.
- Coach site staff on the follow-up of TB/HIV co-infected patients, including the implementation of contact tracing.
- Ensure that TB screening is systematically performed and documented in the TB screening register for each client visit/contact at the facility.
- Ensure that TPT is systematically offered to all TB-screened PLWHA and its documentation completed.
- Coach site staff on systematic screening, documentation and referral of NCDs.
- Facilitate the organization of the collection and delivery to the laboratory of CV samples from eligible clients for all population groups in the health facilities under its responsibility.
- Coach staff on the completion of CV collection tools at different levels: CV register, high CV register, sample transmission slip to the laboratory.
- Coach staff on the U=U message and ensure that the message generates demand for viral load collection among clients.
- Coach site staff on the conduct of reinforced adherence support sessions for clients with high viral loads, as well as non-adherent clients on ARV treatment.
- Ensure that all clients with high viral loads are enrolled in the enhanced adherence support program, and all have been sampled after three well-conducted EAC sessions.
- Ensure that all viral load results are documented in the viral load register, and that adherence support sessions are reinforced in the high viral load register.
- Ensure that sites have all the necessary tools for patient follow-up (SOP, patient file, daily register, tracking tool, EAC form, counseling form, etc.).
- Monitoring and evaluation activities
- Support the updating of health facility registers
- Extract data from all registers at the end of the day for an extraction sheet, check internal consistency and prepare the monthly report form (hardware and software) for the health facility to send to higher levels;
- Enter data into all media (monthly report forms and all databases);
- Store copies of completed MRFs.
- Ensure timely transmission of complete data to levels above the site health facility at required dates and frequencies (weekly, monthly).
- Participate in basic data analysis according to the cascade of each service and provide weekly feedback.
- Participate in data quality audits.
Required qualifications :
- Training: A minimum of Bachelor Degree in Nursing Care or Lab Technician degree or other health-related & sciences profile
- Experience: At least 03 years working in a healthcare setting and HIV clinical Service delivery, an experience in Data collection & reporting is an asset.
- Skills: Excellent communication skills with patients, service providers, and the public
- Language: Good mastery of French and/or English is a key requirement.
Required competencies, skills, and experience
- The Site Focal Point must show a positive attitude towards HIV, their own beliefs about the efficacy of ART and the importance of adherence is key as it will determine how they reinforce linkage to care and treatment services.
- The Site Focal should have a clear understanding of the entire HIV healthcare system
- Need for an empathetic,non-judgmental approach toward the clients
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work as a team and with minimal supervision
All applications must be submitted ONLINE at : https://phe.tbe.taleo.net/phe02/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?rid=3098&org=PEDAIDS&cws=41&cws=41
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