Senior Nurse/Counselor at Population Council

Details

• To provide technical support and capacity strengthening in HIV counseling and testing, HIV/STI prevention education, STI syndromic management, ART and PrEP adherence counseling, care and psycho-social support group services and other secondary health care services at the community-based outpatient center, Rivers for Key Populations and their sex partners who engage in high risk behaviors that predispose them to increased risks of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
• Additionally, perform other related duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Administer treatment and care at the community centre in line with good clinical practice.
• Provide technical support and coordinate the day-to-day clinical management of clients and running of the center.
• Contribute to local capacity strengthening of the clinical team in adherence counseling, case management and community-based participatory in research; provide HIV/STI behavior change and communication prevention communications.  
• Support the project implementation team in coordinating and supervising support group meetings and commodity management.
• Contribute to the development and documentation of best practices, lessons learned and results and highlight the success of community based comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care among key populations. 
• Contribute to periodic data collection, analysis, report writing and work plan development in collaboration with other program units.
• Provide psychosocial support and mental health, substance abuse treatment, and referral services 8. Provide technical and clinical support to research activities at the centre.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Medical Officer and Project Director.

Qualifications

• Level of Education - Bachelor of Nursing degree & MPH preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant working experience in HIV and Sexual & Reproductive programming in the public or private health sector. 
• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria
• Knowledge of MS application softwares. 
• Ability and willingness to travel within the state and country when needed
• Trained and certified HIV and AIDS counselor
• Strong analytic and communication skills, ability to write clearly under time pressure.