State Clinical Coordinator at AIDS Healthcare Foundation Nigeria (Foundation for AIDS Care, Prevention and Advocacy in Nigeria)

Job Title: State Clinical Coordinator

Job Summary

• The State Clinical Coordinator directly oversees all medical activities, at AHF-Nigeria supported facilities in the located State, in Nigeria, covering all comprehensive sites and outposts within the State/region, and see to the expansion of services within the State/region in Nigeria, ensuring delivery of high-quality standard of care for all patients as well as providing leadership within the state.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership and Management:

• As a coordinator, he/she oversees medical, AHF operations in the State and supports the Country Program Manager to efficiently and effectively deliver quality clinical services in the state/region.
• He/she will lead the expansion of AHF Program within the state.
• Provide technical support to Prevention and Treatment program and ensure linkage of outreach activities to treatment and care program through well-established processes of patient linkages and service integration
• Attends key technical partners meetings and provides feedback to management through the Medical Director.
• Ensure that CMEs are conducted in all sites and participates in the facilitation of CME sessions.
• He/she participates in staff need assessment and induction of newly hired staff.
• He/she participates in setting performance targets and staff appraisal, disciplining and addressing complaints of employees under his/her supervision.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Ensure the standard quality of clinical services at all AHF supported sites in his/her region.
• Provide periodic comprehensive support supervision report, adhering to the tools provided by AHF
• Promotes the implementation of standard operating procedures for all activities relating to good clinical practice and ensure functional QI teams are in existence at site levels
• Supervise and implement quality management activities and quality benchmarks monitoring, facilitation of quality assurance and quality improvement sessions.
• Strengthen TB/HIV, PMTCT, ART services through integrated service delivery and provision of quality services in the state program.
• Ensures optimal operations of the laboratory services, including functioning of sample referral networks at regional level
• Provide on-site technical support and mentoring to the field staff and coordinate M&E of the project
• Ensures effective patient flow in all sites, especially those with high volume of patients and coordinate time motion surveys to monitor performance
• Oversee the timely collection, compilation and reporting of routine and specific data to guide decision making at site, regional and country program level.
• Identify early warning resistance indicators and intervention strategies
• Remain updated on current trends and standards in clinical management of HIV/AIDS and related illnesses
• Participate in the elaboration/monitoring of annual targets and ensure that they are achieved in all regional sites.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Provides direct supervision and mentorship to doctors, nurses, laboratory scientists, pharmacists working in the different facilities in the region to ensure continuous growth and learning
• Ensure timely compilation and submission of monthly drug inventory reports in coordination with the Program pharmacist
• Work with the program pharmacist to ensure that pharmacy operations are in accordance with good pharmacy practices
• Identify and promote operational research at state level and build capacity among the staff in case presentations and elaboration of scientific papers.

Education and Experience

• Must be a medical doctor from a recognized institution.
• Additional qualifications in Health systems management or public health will be an added advantage.
• Must possess a valid license to practice as a Medical Doctor.
• Five years of medical/health service experience preferred with a sound knowledge of basic medical disciplines to allow for accurate diagnosis and appropriate management of clinical problems.
• Five years or more of recent experience with HIV/AIDS treatment; three years minimum of administration and program management experience with knowledge of clinical protocols and procedures in the management of HIV related diseases.
• Experience in planning and budgeting required
• Experience in quality management and assurance practices desired
• Demonstrate computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc
• Experience providing and facilitating training; experience setting up training programs and workshops preferred.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is 14th February, 2025 (5pm). Therefore qualified and interested candidates should send their CV to : [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note

• Kindly indicate the position and the location you are applying for as the subject of your e-mail.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Also, your application document must be saved in your full name preferably in MS word or PDF format.
• AIDS Healthcare Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer!