Clinical Advisor Northern Tygerberg at Anova Health Institute

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide clinical advice to Department of Health (DoH) and Anova staff on HIV, TB, PMTCT & Pediatric management.
• Provide technical assistance for programs design and planning in your cluster; assessing current health system’s needs, and implementing activities to support project reporting requirements and routine projects management for your support cluster/district Support DoH in implementation and roll out of effective, efficient District strategic HAST programs in line with 909090 and NSP (2017 – 2022) goals
• Compile monthly & quarterly regular reports for Anova, Funders and DOH as required on the program.
• Identify barriers to service delivery through strategic planning and made recommendations.
• Supports development of systems to track and monitor indicator and programs performance for effective facility and sub-district QI planning.
• Support the district and sub-district in planning and conducting ongoing and quarterly programmatic reviews (HIV, DIP, PMTCT, TB, and Ideal Clinic etc.)
• Identify innovative projects that can be implemented to improve performance of the PMTCT, paediatric TB and HIV programme and ensure that all project deliverables are met in a high quality, cost effective and timely fashion
• Formulate and implement innovative research ideas in line with Anova’s objectives, gaining consent from Exco prior to embarking on research Building and maintaining team spirit and cohesion
• Engage and support managers at the facility and regional level

Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Skills Required

• Registered as a Medical Practitioner (MBCHB) with HPCSA Diploma in HIV management
• Advantageous Good Clinical Practice Certificate
• Advantageous Trained NIMART mentor
• 1 years’ experience in comprehensive HIV management
• Technical, specialist or analytical skills acquired through tertiary education or the equivalent experience
• Able to relate to technical and or functional instructions or queries
• Able to give technical guidance to between 1 to 5 junior staff
• Expected to make first line attempt to solve problems
• Expected to come up with suggestions on improved practices
• Friendly and able to engage people
• Flexible and resilient to change
• Sound work ethic
• Vaccinated