Job Detail

Job Description

Supervise Retention team and Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) on community and facility activities in line with the national guidelines and Hope Center policies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support retention teams in the supported sites and help them develop strategies and adherence support mechanisms
• Support facilities to support continuous quality improvement projects for continuity of care, patient retention, and adherence support.
• Capacity build the case managers to implement case management with fidelity
• Ensure an accurate and up to date record of those who interrupted treatment and missed appointments are maintained in the Kenya EMR
• Supervise and mentor facility retention officers, peer educators, mentor mothers on strategies on continuity of care
• Support sites to come up with strategies to reduce missed appointments to less than 2%
• Ensure all facilities are implementing community-based adherence groups
• Support sites to implement age, sex and population specific support groups
• Work with CHVs and ensure all sites implement the community health strategy
• Participate in performance monitoring of the retention team
• Oversee implementation of USHAURI and NISHAURI service
• Community mapping, identification of areas that need HIV Testing services and seek approval for the activity in collaboration with HTS team
• Liaise with Sub County Community health volunteer’s coordinator for easy access to the community as required

Qualifications and Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychological counselling, Social sciences
• Training in Adherence Counselling
• Three (3) years’ experience in HIV patient retention at facility level
• Excellent interpersonal communication.
• Good report writing skills
• Good communication skills

Application procedure:

If you meet the minimum requirements, submit your application & CV through email to jobs@coptichospitals.org or drop your application letter in HR office indicating the position you are applying on or before 8th September 2023

Coptic Hospital is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equality, and DOES NOT CHARGE for any kind of recruitment. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.