• Company: AIHA
• Location: Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia
• State: Lusaka
• Job type: Full-Time
• Job category: Healthcare/Medical Jobs in Zambia

Position Title: Nurse/Nurse Practitioner

Location: Lusaka

Dual Reporting Relationship: Reports the Project Director or designee in Country and to the Clinical Director at Meharry Medical College.

A consortium of four historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) in the United States of America working in coordination with American international health alliance (AIHA), anticipates working with PEPFAR funding to support select Ministry of Health first level hospitals in Lusaka, Zambia. The HBCU Global Health Consortium project is designed to transform clinical HIV Practice to provide high quality, comprehensive, inter-professional care and treatment to people living with HIV. The ART Nurse will work on the ground, implementing differentiated models of HIV service delivery in Lusaka to help alleviate congestion and improve quality of ART care in high volume HIV treatment sites with children and their parents and/or primary caretakers. S/He will work in the ART clinic of Chilenje Hospital to ensure significant portions of stable ART clients, especially children before the ages of 8 weeks are referred and receive treatment service through a coordinated care model in their communities.
Essential Roles and Responsibilities

S/He will be required to undertake appropriate tasks leading to the following deliverables and furnish evidence of completion of the same to Howard University HBCU Project field coordinator. Deliverables are to be discussed during meetings with field coordinator and documents provided in electronic format in hard copy format as necessary.

The specific tasks include but not limited to the following;

• Work closely with Meharry clinical staff , other project staff and facility ART staff in the execution of components of this project
• To provide competent, and efficient nursing support to ART consumers who are mothers and children.
• Identify stable ART patients and recommend them to the clinician for possible enrollment in the appropriate treatment program.
• Work with other HBCU Consortium member to build the capacity of community-based healthcare facilities on the management of ART patients focusing on adherence support, monitoring of adverse drug reactions (ADR) and compliance with clinic appointments.
• Implement and monitor a QI and Rapid Quality Improvement strategy at the Chilenje Hospital
• Conduct quality improvement activities including focused studies to identify key issues and barriers to the care coordination of infants and mom to the overall project efficiency and effectiveness
• Work closely as a team member with Clinical Director and Project staff at AIHA, other Meharry project staff and facility ART staff in the execution of components of this project
• Work with the partners including CIDRZ, CDC Zambia, ICAP, HBCU partners, AIHA, and LDHO to identify community-based NGOs to serve as resources and support the implementation of the Chilenje quality improvement activities.
• Work with the STO to build the capacity of community-based healthcare facilities on the management of ART patients focusing on adherence support, monitoring of adverse drug reactions (ADR) and compliance with clinic appointments.
• Facilitate the process of working with the Chilenje Leadership and the Pharmacy Staff to track the care coordination of ART clients through care coordination model and to improve testing of clients for early diagnosis in the care continuum.
• Ensure narrative reports are submitted to the Project Director in country or designee and to Meharry in a timely manner.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by Meharry directly or through the Project Director and Project Coordinator stationed at AIHA.
• Participate in regular monthly meetings by Zoom and in-country face to face.

Skills and Responsibilities

• A registered nurse or enrolled nurse
• Registered with health professions council of Zambia
• Experience working in a government institution
• ART prescribing training and qualification will be an added advantage
• Experience in Health Care and community-based health programming for HIV
• Knowledge on current HIV treatment guidelines including adherence support and ADR monitoring.
• Able to Collect and analyze data
• Computer literate including skills in Smartcare
• Understanding of health facility screening tools, registers, clients files and other necessary health documents
• Knowledge of Care Coordination, Quality Assurance, and HIV Testing Requirements

How to Apply

This position is for local Zambia hire. Please send your cover letter, CV and salary range to [email protected] by noon March 7th. Please put the position you are applying for in the title of the email