Project Manager (Retention and Innovation Services) Nurse (Gophelega) Tshwane (Wits RHI)

Main purpose of the job:

• To provide oversight and technical support for the retention of HIV/TB patients and innovation services in the allocated sub-districts by working with the sub-districts and facility managers, Wits RHI community teams, community partners, community-based organizations, and linkage hub to ensure that clients tested positive for HIV/TB are retained in care in line with the 90 90 90 strategies

Location:

• Pretoria – Tshwane

Key performance areas:

• Develop Retention implementation/operational plan for the sub-district in line with the district and national strategies with the support of the Retention/QI Programme Manager
• Oversee the tracking and tracing activities for treatment initiation or follow-up visits for HIV/TB patients, including source documents and database updates by working with the different stakeholders (Treatment navigators, community teams and partners, PHC teams, linkage hub)
• Provide technical support to ensure managers are monitoring capturing of lost to-care patients from relevant paper-based systems by the relevant stakeholders, this includes the liaison with the relevant program stakeholders and teams to ensure that daily, reports are generated for early and late missed appointments as per the reporting timelines
• Lead the Return to Care strategy within Wits RHI in Tshwane Health District
• Provide strategic guidance to managers to ensure that clients waiting for ART (for various reasons) and TB treatment, and uLTFU lists from Tier.net are followed up back into care and treatment by working with the different relevant stakeholders
• Oversee that DOH facilities have smooth referral and transfer in and out of clients within facilities to ensure retention in care and treatment
• Liaise with Wits RHI community staff, facilities, and DOH staff about TB and HIV client management in terms of linkage and retention in care and treatment activities
• Collaborate with DoH teams to organize community outreach activities (awareness, screening, mop up, and tracing campaigns) to improve the management of HIV and TB clients and retention in care activities
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key external partners to coordinate the program, NGOs, CBOs/ NPOs, FBOs, WBPHCOTs DOH, Treatment Navigators, etc.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key internal role players (linkage hub, Decanting teams, community teams, pharmaceuticals team, contracted CBOs, Training/capacity building unit, PHC teams) to coordinate linkage and retention activities in the districts
• Liaise with Wits RHI internal departments/ units in the coordination of services for the outputs/ key deliverables for the program (AFYS, Decanting teams, PHC teams, Linkage hub, Wits RHI community teams, contracted CBO, WBPHCOT staff, treatment Navigators, etc.
• Initiate and support the development of innovative strategies in line with the 90-90-90 strategy using available resources and technical knowledge
• Provide guidance on innovative activities implemented by managers in allocated sub-districts to ensure that patients are retained in care
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to all innovations discussions and activities while leading the institution of an innovation hub or team with the objectives to improve patient care and retention
• Formalize and document innovations into CQIPs for reporting and presentation internally and externally (DoH)
• Identify training needs and provide technical support for the development of linkage to the care curriculum
• Support the capacitation of sub-district stakeholders (both internal and external) on the linkage and patient retention strategy in the subdistrict
• Monitor stakeholders to ensure that patients are linked and retained in care and treatment services for all newly diagnosed and loss to follow-up HIV and TB newly patients
• Oversee the mentoring of the various stakeholders on the linkage and retention activities in sub-districts
• Provide technical support to the sub-district regarding linkage and retention strategies i.e. decanting unit, hospital, PHC
• Ensure that teams and different stakeholders report their activities as per the tools for the program
• Ensure and monitor the use of data collection and reporting tools as set out for the program
• Ensure that databases, dashboard, and any kind of reporting format is updated and customized for linkage and retention activities

Required minimum education and training:

• A professional qualification in Nursing degree or equivalent
• A valid driver’s license
• Proficiency in MS office

Required minimum work experience:

• At least 2 years experience in working at a facility and community with knowledge and experience in primary health care

Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Presentation skills

Demands of the job:

• Working overtime or over weekends may be required from time to time
• Able to work in a highly pressurized and challenging environment
• May be required to work at sites that are under confidentiality, tact with discretion to be always maintained
• Local travel may be required

Communications and relationships:

• Maintain effective working and communication relationships with the different stakeholders and (Facilities, community partners and organizations)

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 and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
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• 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: 20 October 2022.
• 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.

Please note:

• Our Client, WHC - RHI, maintains mandatory Covid-19 requirements, and as such only Covid-19 vaccinated incumbents will be considered for positions.
• WHC, in accordance with its 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.
• AJ Personnel is only responsible for advertising the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
• AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.