ART Clinician/Sites Coordinator at AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Reports to: Medical Director

Job Summary

• The ART Clinician/Sites Coordinator directly oversees all medical activities, at AHF-Nigeria supported facilities in the located State, in Nigeria, covering all comprehensive sites and outposts within the State/region, and see to the expansion of services within the State/region in Nigeria, ensuring delivery of high quality standard of care for all patients.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Leadership and Management:

• He/she oversees medical, AHF operations in the State and supports the Country Program Director to efficiently and effectively deliver quality clinical services in the State/region
• He/she will lead the expansion of AHF Program within the state.
• Provide technical supports to Prevention and Treatment program and ensure linkage of outreach activities to treatment and care program through well-established processes of patient linkages and service integration
• Attends key technical partners meetings and provides feedback to management through the Medical Director.
• Ensures that CMEs are conducted in all sites and participates in the facilitation of CME sessions
• He/she participates in staff need assessment and induction of new hired staff
• He/she participates in setting performance targets and staff appraisal, disciplining and addressing complaints of employees under his/her supervision.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Ensure standard quality of clinical services at all AHF supported sites in his/her region
• Provide periodic comprehensive support supervision report, adhering to the tools provided by AHF
• Promotes the implementation of standard operating procedures for all activities relating to good clinical practice and ensure functional QI teams are in existence at site levels
• Supervise and implement quality management activities and quality benchmarks monitoring, facilitation of quality assurance and quality improvement sessions
• Strengthen TB/HIV, PMTCT, ART services through integrated service delivery and provision of quality services in the state program
• Ensures Optimal operations of the laboratory services, including functioning of sample referral networks at state level
• Provide on-site technical support and mentoring to the field staff and coordinate M&E of the project
• Ensures effective patient flow in all sites, especially those with high volume of patients and coordinate time motion surveys to monitor performance
• Oversees the timely collection, compilation and reporting of routine and specific data to guide decision making at site, regional and country program level.
• Identify early warning resistance indicators and intervention strategies
• Remain updated on current trends and standards in clinical management of HIV/AIDS and related illnesses
• Participate in the elaboration/monitoring of annual targets and ensure that they are achieved in all regional sites.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Provides direct supervision and mentorship to Health Care workers, Nurses, Laboratory Scientists, Pharmacy Technician working in the different facilities in the state to ensure continuous growth and learning
• Ensure timely compilation and submission of monthly drug inventory reports in coordination with the Program Pharmacist
• Work with the program Pharmacist to ensure that pharmacy operations are in accordance with good pharmacy practices
• Identify and promote operational research at site level and build capacity among the staff in case presentations and elaboration of scientific papers
• Participation in AHF Meetings/Committees.

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made so enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• Must be a Medical Doctor from a recognized institution. Additional qualification in Health Systems Management or Public Health will be an added advantage
• Four years medical/health service experience preferred with a sound knowledge of basic medical disciplines to allow for accurate diagnosis and appropriate management of clinical problems
• 2-3 years or more of recent experience with HIV/AIDS treatment; two years minimum of administration and program management experience with knowledge of clinical protocols and procedures in the management of HIV related diseases
• Experience in planning and budgeting required
• Experience in quality management and assurance practices desired.

Computer Skills:

• Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point
• Proficiency in basic research application like Epi-info, SPSS, etc, an added advantage