Registered Nurse
Primary Function:
Reporting to the facility in-charge, the nurse will
oversee the implementation of HIV care activities in the Prevention of Mother
to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services integration in the health facility
assigned.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support ANC, PNC, and Maternity
HIV testing services.
- Ensure ART uptake among HIV
infected pregnant/lactating women.
- Ensure viral suppression among
PMTCT women.
- Oversee the provision of early
infant diagnosis, care and follow-up of HIV-exposed infants.
- Ensure follow-up and retention of
HIV-infected pregnant/lactating women and HIV-exposed infants (HEI) by use
of the case management model.
- Strengthen linkages between PMTCT
and HEI services and Comprehensive Care Clinics.
- Strengthen
facility-community/community-facility linkages with the help of CHVs and
case managers.
- Supervise eMTCT services provided
by the maternal case managers.
- Work hand in hand with the
clinical officers to implement patients Plan of Care.
- Perform TB intensified case
finding for PLHIV on every clinical encounter.
- Initiate TB Preventive Therapy
(TPT) for the eligible PLHIV
- Ensure 12 month/24 month HEI
Cohort Analysis (HCA), PCR positive validation, and audits and PMTCT
reports are done each month.
- Participate in MNCH Working
Improvement Teams (WITS) and initiate CQI projects on gaps identified.
- Participate in MNCH in
generation, compilation, and utilization of PMTCT data.
- Participate in Continous
Professional development as required by nursing council.
- Perform any other duty as maybe
assigned by the organization.
Qualifications:
- Diploma in any of the following
disciplines: Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing, Kenya Registered
Nursing, Kenya Registered Midwifery, Kenya Registered Nursing/Midwifery or
Kenya Registered Nursing/Mental Health and Psychiatry from a recognized institution
- Registration Certificate issued
by the Nursing Council of Kenya
- Valid practicing license from
Nursing Council of Kenya
- Certificate in computer
application skills from a recognized institution.
- NASCOP Certification in Provision
of both adult and pediatric ART, and PMCT is an added advantage
- Two (2) years’ experience, 1 year
of which should be within a busy HIV Comprehensive Care Centre and/or in
the provision of PMTCT services.
- Demonstrable knowledge of HIV/ART
management, diagnosis and treatment procedures of conditions associated
with HIV, adherence support and PMTCT service delivery.
How to Apply
Kindly send your application that includes a cover letter
and an updated CV including names of three professional referees to CIHEBKENYA_Recruitment@cihebkenya.org on
or before 16th May 2023. Applicants are advised to include the title on
the subject line.The Centre for International Health, Education and Biosecurity
(Ciheb) — Kenya is an equal opportunity employer.
