Medical Officer / Doctor - Sesssional - Wits RHI

SUMMARY:
-

POSITION INFO:

The main purpose of the job:

• Maximum working hours of 10 hours per week/40 hours per month
• To provide gender-affirming health care services for adult trans and gender diverse clients within a comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment package

Location:

• Bellville – Cape Town

Key performance areas:

• Attend 1.5-hour onboarding workshop conducted by the TG technical consultant to improve trans-competent health service delivery
• Attend 1,5 hr. small group mentoring and case conferencing sessions led by the TG technical consultant
• Create a safe and affirmative space for the trans and gender diverse client accessing services
• Render comprehensive, high quality, clinical services for people living with HIV including, but not limited to:
• - Management of ART treatment failure
• - Management of HIV Opportunistic infections
• - Management of treatment complications
• - Management of drug-drug interactions
• Consult on and provide referrals for gender-affirming interventions, hormone therapy, surgery, facial hair removal, interventions for the modification of speech and communication, and behavioral adaptations such as genital tucking or packing, or chest binding
• Initiate and maintain routine hormone therapy according to established diagnostic and Eligibility Criteria for Hormone Therapy, including:
• - Baseline evaluation and consent (2-3 visits)
• - Initiation of hormone therapy (preferably at 2nd or 3rd visit)
• - Follow-up and monitoring at regular intervals as per HRT protocol
• Identify risk factors and conditions that can be exacerbated by gender-affirming hormone therapy
• Ensure case management with site psychologist and/ or social worker and professional nurse
• Help establish and maintain a multi-disciplinary network of private and public gender-affirming health care and associated professionals
• Provide 3-5-page quarterly report to Site Manager and mechanical exam to service delivery challenges and mitigation approach

Required minimum education and training:

• MBChB/MBBCh
• Competency in transgender health and HIV care
• Registration with the HPCSA

Required minimum work experience:

• 5 years experience in public health and Transgender healthcare
• Experience and knowledge of Trans-health care
• Experience working with key populations, specifically the Transgender community

Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities:

• DoH clinical guidelines
• Wits RHI Clinic Standard Operating Procedures
• Program description
• Clinical stationery
• Wits RHI TG clinical guidelines
• Gender DynamiX Gender-affirming Hormone Guide (2019) (Endorsed by: Groote Schuur Hospital Transgender Clinic Team and The Psychological Society of South Africa)
• Anova Health4Trans: Transgender Health Training Manuals
• Psychological Society of South Africa - Practice guidelines for psychology professionals working with sexually and gender-diverse people.
• WPATH – SOC7

TO APPLY:

• Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV. Please Apply Online
• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
• The closing date for all applications: 25 October 2021.
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful.
• Note AJ Personnel is fully POPIA compliant.
• Note WHC, in accordance with their Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.

• PLEASE NOTE: Our Client, WHC - RHI, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.

Please note:

• AJ PERSONNEL is only responsible for the advertising of the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
• AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.

NB! This job is now closed. You can apply for other jobs by uploading your CV.