Job Opportunities At THPS Tanzania. Tanzania Health Promotion Support (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) and Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG), The Ministry of Home Affairs 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 and health management information systems (HIMS).
THPS is implementing a USAID Police and Prisons Activity in 64 health facilities across 26 regions of Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar, aimed at supporting the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) in providing comprehensive quality HIV and TB prevention, care and treatment services.
27 Job Opportunities At THPS Tanzania
THPS therefore is seeking highly experienced, committed and motivated Tanzanians to fill in its vacant positions for this activity to be based at the facilities Countrywide.
Job Title : CTC Clinician (3 positions)
Direct Reports to : Medical Officer in charges of the health facilities
Location : Kambarage Police Dispensary – Shinyanga, Tabora Police Dispensary -Tabora and FFU Mbeya Dispensary – Mbeya in Tanzania
Purpose and Scope of Job;
Provision of high-quality clinical HIV and Tuberculosis services according to the local (Ministry of Home Affairs, MoHCDGEC) and international standards, including reporting as per donor government and requirement.
Duties and responsibilities;
HIV services
- 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.
- Conduct and facilitate 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 participate 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%
- 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
TB& TB/HIV services
- To work with expert clients/peers at OPD to ensure that all clients who become eligible for HIV testing due to TB symptoms are also subjected to TB testing
- To attend all clients presumed to have TB and ensure that they are subjected to appropriate TB diagnostic workup
- to ensure all pediatrics diagnosed with any form of malnutrition are f evaluated forTB
- Work with the DOT nurse(s) to ensure all contacts of contacts of confirmed Pulmonary TB patients are reached and subjected to appropriate diagnostic workup
- Ensure TB screening is done to all PLHIV on ART during routine clinical visit.
- Ensure evaluation of patients on anti-TB is done at month 2 and month 5 and outcome of treatment is documented
- Design and update the facility’s TB infection control plan and ensure that it is displayed and being used at all services delivery points
- Ensure appropriate TB documentation is made across all TB registers and reporting tools.
Qualifications & Experience
- Diploma /Advanced in clinical Medicine from a recognized institution and must be registered with the relevant professional body in Tanzania.
- At least two years’ working experience in providing HIV/AIDS care and treatment and TB services
- Computer literacy, with comfortable working experience with the basic Microsoft packages (Word, Excel & power point, and Access).
- Excellent written and oral communication in English and Kiswahili.
- Ability to work under pressure and timely meet deadlines.
- Ability to plan, implement independently or in a team.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision
Job Title: Assistant Data Officer (AD0 17 position)
Direct Reports to : Medical Officer In charge and Indirectly to Zonal SI Officer
Location : Health Facilities, Country wide
Purpose and Scope of Job:
To implement high-standard computer and paper-based HIV Testing (HTS) Services, care and treatment (CTC) and TB data and record management in accordance to Facility, District, Regional, Government and PEPFAR guidance
Duties and responsibilities:
- Primarily responsible for transcription of patient visit information to paper-based pre-ART, ART registers, and TB register.
- Review relevant clinic records and perform paper-based data quality checks on CTC 2 cards, ART registers, Pharmacy and TB registers.
- Ensure proper filling client files
- At computerized sites, conduct data entry for the CTC 2 database from CTC2 cards, PITC registers and HEI cards.
- Update all patient’s laboratory results on CTC2 database (CD4, Viral Load etc.)
- Perform data quality assurance checks for the electronic data
- Update all clients visits in the CTC2 database on daily basis and update in the CTC3 macro as frequent as required by the program.
- Perform daily back up of CTC2 database into external hard drive
- Conduct data triangulation between CTC2 database, ANC and TB units (TB-HIV and ANC positive clients)
- Produce/Compile Prepare Quarterly reports for care and treatment, Mother child cohort report, HTS reports and TB reports.
- Produce TB defaulters, missed appointment /LTF reports on monthly basis and update final status of clients.
- Collaborate with site personnel, personnel at other health facilities and community-based organization in tracing patients who miss visits or are lost to follow-up.
- Assist facility, R/CHMT in all data-related requests and reporting.
- Ensure weekly data are entered into patchy excel to facilitate weekly performance review.
- Enter performance of each sub granted staff in the database on monthly basis.
- Participate in all Ql meeting in the facility.
- Facilitate accurate and timely data collection and submission at your facility on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis with minimal or no support from THPS staff.
- Communicate closely with District, Regional and Headquarters THPS staff to ensure smooth uninterrupted availability of HIV interventions in your facility
Qualifications & Experience
- At least Form six level.
- Certificate from Health Record Management training Institute
- Must have verifiable knowledge on computer (Ms Word, Excel, and MS Access)
- Nursing, counselling, and/or records keeping skills will be an added advantage
- Familiarity with the health system and hospital medical records.
- Capable of independently implementing the duties described above.
- Fluent in Kiswahili and English
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
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
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
How to apply:
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.
