7 New Job Vacancies at Tanzania Health Promotion Support (THPS) – ART Nurses
|
| THPS |
Health Promotion Support (THPS) Jobs
Tanzania Health Promotion Supports (THPS) is an
indigenous NGO established under non- governmental organization act No
24 of 2002 in 2011. THPS works in partnership with the Ministry of
Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC),
Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG), Ministry of Home
Affairs (MoHA) and Ministry of Health (MoH) in Zanzibar with a goal of
ensuring accessible high- quality health care services to Tanzanians;
through strengthening of health and community systems for comprehensive
quality health services including HIV/AIDS; Tuberculosis; prevention of
GBV; reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health
(RMNHCAH) services; laboratory systems and services and health
management information systems (HIMS)
Tanzania Health Promotion
support (THPS) has been awarded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)- under the Cooperative Agreement GH20-2062 to
implement a project entitled “Health Information System Development,
Project Management and Coordinated Deployment for National HIV and
Health Sector Systems in the Republic of Tanzania under the President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The goal of the project is to
support the Government of Tanzania (GOT) in the management,
coordination, scale-up, and continuous modernization of Tanzania’s
Health Information Systems (HIS). Specific areas that THPS will support
include, but are not limited to: a) Technical planning and upgrading of
HIS related to HIV/TB, particularly lab information systems; b)
Strengthening data integration and linkages of diverse data sources and
HIS; c) Improving data quality, data analyses, and utilization associate
with HIS.
THPS therefore is seeking competent, experienced, dynamic and qualified candidates to fill the positions listed below…..
Recommended:
PAST PAPERS ZA DARASA LA 7 MPAKA FORM SIX | NECTA AND MOCK EXAMS 1988 – 2019. CLICK HERE!
Position Title; ART Nurse; 7 positions
Reports to; Medical Officer in charges of the health facilities
Location; Oyster
Bay Police Dispensary, Ukonga FFU Dispensary -Dar es Salaam, Morogoro
FFU Dispensary -Morogoro, Buyekera Policeline Dispensary -Kagera, Moshi
Chuo Cha Police Dispensary – Kilimanjaro and Ruanda Prison -Mbeya
Purpose and Scope of Job;
Provision
of high-quality clinical HIV services according to the local (Ministry
of Home Affairs, MoHCDGEC) and international standards, including
reporting as per donor government and requirement
CHECK SCHOLARSHIPS OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDY ABROAD CLICK HERE!
Duties and responsibilities
- Attend
all clients (PLHIV and Non-PLHIV) enrolled / attending CTC to ensure
clinical service are provided according to the national and
international HIV treatment guidelines. - Ensure all clients
attending all service points at your facility are offered HIV
counselling and testing in accordance to MOHCDGEC and MoHA guidelines. - Ensure
all patients/clients attending all service points at your facility
clients are screened for their eligibility for HIV testing and all those
eligible are tested. - Facilitate and conduct index testing to
sexual partners of PLHIV newly identified or attending CTC services at
your facility (except prisoners). - Ensure linkage case management
model is well understood and implemented as a routine service to all
new identified clients except for prisoners. - Supervision and
coordination of lay counsellors to ensure all positives identified are
attached, followed, and enrolled into ART. - Ensure all clients identified to be HIV positive are linked to care and started on ART on the same day (Same day ART initiation)
- Ensure
all clients on treatment are categorized according to their stability
to allow application of Differentiated Care Model for stable and
unstable clients. - Ensure pediatric population attending the facility are screened for optimized PITC using children specific screening tool.
- Ensure all positive children are started on optimized ART and those who are on old regimen to change the regimen to TLD.
- Ensure adherence and retention on ART of pediatric clients hence successfully viral suppression
- Coordinate and facilitate children Saturday clinics and teen clubs.
- Ensure availability is pediatric job aides, posters and working tools.
- Ensure HIV Viral Load coverage at your clinic is at 95%
- Ensure
TB screening to all PLHIV on ART, suspects are diagnosed and treated
and those eligible for IPT are initiated and successfully complete. - Facilitate
monitoring and evaluation (ensure proper documentation of all services
provided and reports are developed and submitted as per MOHA, MOHCDGEC,
THPS and USAID guidance. - Ensure HIV Ql Team is available and Ql activities are implemented successfully correctly.
- Implement PMTCT activities in the health facility.
- Perform other duties as requested by your supervisor
NEW TANZANIAN JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES 2021 (1,475 POSTS)
Qualifications & Experience
- At least Form Four level of secondary education.
- Must be an Enrolled Nurse
- Knowledge on computer will be an added advantage. (Ms Word, Excel, and MS
- At least three experiences of working with HIV/AIDS program at CTC.
- Capable of independently or under minimal supervision.
- Fluent in Kiswahili and English
Recommended:
Free
CV Writing and Download, Cover/Job Application Letters, Interview
Questions and It’s Best Answers plus Examples. Click Here!
Method of Application
Interested applicants should send an email recruitment@thps.or.tz attaching their application cover letter one page maximum and CV four pages maximum by September 3rd 2021 with a position title as a subject line, for example: ‘ART Nurse”. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted. Please do not attach any certificates when submitting online.
THPS is an equal opportunity employer; women, people living with
HIV/AIDS and people living with disability are encouraged to apply.
The post 7 New Job Vacancies at Tanzania Health Promotion Support (THPS) – ART Nurses appeared first on Ajira - Nafasi za kazi Tanzania 2019.
source https://ajira-nafasizakazitz.com/44159/