Professional Nurse

**Main purpose of the job**:

- This position requires experience in clinical knowledge, as well as nursing qualifications with specific emphasis on NIMART certificate, PrEP exposure, and training
- The Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) project requires the services of one Professional Nurse who will be responsible for providing all comprehensive health services (including SRHR) for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW)
- The activities include the provision of mobile PHC, HIV Prevention, Care and support services for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), including PrEP, ART, SRHR, linkage to care, adherence support, phlebotomy, interpretation of results, and ensuring that clients remain in care

**Location**:

- **Mthatha - Eastern Cape**

**Key performance areas**:

- Engagement with AGYW, and other key role players to identify areas where AGYW are found regularly
- Produce weekly work plan with a list of AGYW hotspot areas, with the planned route of delivery of services
- Identification of allocated funder targets, and design of outreach schedule to reach the target population, daily, weekly, monthly
- Establishment of a stakeholder team and organizing meetings to include AGYW and other role players
- Produce reports on demand creation and awareness campaigns and activities used to reach AGYW
- Orientation of facilities, and involvement AGYW in the project model, services available, and hours of operation
- Provision of behavior change information on issues related to HIV, TB, STI, SRHR, PrEP, ART, and other related information within the community
- Orientate DOH PHC facilities and make them aware of project implementation
- Ensure DOH policies and guidelines are available and keep updated on developments
- Attend regular training on all guidelines and keep up-to-date on changes
- Obtain a letter of authority from the DOH to receive a list of commodities required to provide PHC services for AGYW
- Together with the Project Manager: National Coordination, order PHC drugs according to the DOH recommendations and keep a record of stock in, stock-out
- Sensitization training
- Conduct risk reduction counseling
- Conduct the following screening services for HIV, TB, STI, Syphilis, HPV, pregnancy and other minor alignments
- Registration of clients using the clinical chart for Pre-ART, and ART
- Open clinical charts for clients for both PrEP/ART
- Phlebotomy-interpretation of results
- Documentation of all relevant patient results and information
- Clinical assessment of clients
- Counseling for PrEP, ART, and contraceptive choices
- Initiation clients on PrEP, PEP, STI treatment, FP, and ART
- Adherence support groups for PrEP, PEP, and ART
- Stock management and control, including drug supplies and commodities
- Quality assessment and control
- Produce electronic mapping database
- Produce reports on relevant out-reach activities and outcomes
- Monitor PrEP/ART numbers on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis
- Monitor effective benchmarks for measuring, analyzing, reviewing, and reporting on the effectiveness of policy
- Regularly feedback on service standards, and new developments
- Quality Control of source documents and ensure data collection tools are completed in line with protocol and good clinical practice guidelines
- Maintain and build relationships with NDOH, provincial and district DOH, and any other medical/social services and stakeholders linked to the project
- Keep abreast of current news and events to report to management
- Engage regularly with key stakeholders, e.g., DOH, Civil Society, DBE
- Update stakeholders on new developments
- Promote interest in the Project PrEP program
- Promote the clinic in the cluster they have been assigned to ensure that the visual IEC materials are available
- Participate in regular planning sessions with RHI/DOH and other key stakeholders
- Establish effective working relationships with internal and external team
- Strengthen and support the referral system between the community, schools, clinics, and hospitals to ensure that clients are linked to care
- Conduct regular focus group discussions, support groups, and adherence support groups to increase uptake of PrEP/ART
- Support the implementation of strategies to ensure retention and adherence
- Support and strengthen the use of B-Wise as a source of educational information related to HIV and HIV Screening
- Work closely with WBOTs, peer navigators, and counselors to document and respond to issues arising in the community
- Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
- Create a database for client follow-up and trace missed appointments immediately
- Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback

**Required minimum education and training**:

- **Professional Nursing Diploma/Degree**:

- **A/PC 101**:

- **Competency Certificate in NIMART**:

- **Certificate in PrEP**: