HIV Testing & Counselling Counsellors Jobs in Kenya (8 Vacancies)

Job Title: HTC Counsellors

8 Positions
 

The Case-based HIV Surveillance study is a one year collaborative research project between the National AIDS & STI Control Program (NASCOP), University of Washington and Kenyatta National Hospital seeking to set up an electronic case-based registry of HIV-infected individuals tested and/or receiving care at select hospitals in Nairobi and Kisumu counties.

The project seeks to recruit HTC counselors. The appointment will be a one year contract based on satisfactory quarterly performance reviews.

Successful applicants will be responsible for conducting HIV Testing & counselling on clients requiring the service at select hospitals in Nairobi and Western Kenya in addition to enrolling clients and collecting study data. S/he will report to the Study coordinator.

Qualifications: 

• Certificate in HIV Testing & Counselling from National AIDS & STI Control Program. (NASCOP). Familiarity with the current National HTC Algorithm is a MUST
• At least a diploma in Nursing, Psychology, Public Health or Community work.
• Experience in a busy public hospital environment OR research projects will be an added advantage
• At least one year work experience in HTC service provision.
• Fluency in Dholuo (Western) OR Kiswahili (Nairobi).
• Computer literacy( MS Office Suite, Internet)
• Familiarity with the Ministry of Health HTC data collection tools is an added advantage.
• Other desirable qualities include client focus with a high degree of professionalism and ethics, being results-oriented, good interpersonal skills and reliability.

Responsibilities will include

• Providing HTC services to out-patient clients in select public hospitals in Nairobi and Kisumu counties while offering the relevant referral services
• Inviting and enrolling positive clients into the study while collecting data through electronic questionnaires.
• Taking iris scans of newly enrolled clients and returning CCC clients.
• Maintaining research data fidelity and confidentiality as directed by the study protocol.
• Liaising and coordinating with other HTC counsellors in the facility to ensure all positive clients are informed and invited to the study.
• Liaising with the facility health records & information officer and NASCOP SI officer in obtaining select patient data from EMR as per study protocol
• Providing weekly study reports to the study coordinator.
• Any other duties as directed by study coordinator

Interested applicants should send their CV and copies of relevant certificates via email to apssupplement@gmail.com

Application Deadline: 11th January, 2015

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Nairobi Women’s Hospital Nursing Officers, Senior Staff Nurses and Counselors Jobs in Kenya

At The Nairobi Women’s Hospital, we are changing to better deliver on our promise and live to our vision “We are trusted with the health care of our Women in Africa”. 

As part of this change, exciting vacancies have arisen and invite suitably qualified talent to this winning team.

1. Nursing Officers

(3 Positions) 

Reporting to the Nursing Officer in Charge this position is responsible for planning, organizing and coordinating the Nursing team within a section (Maternity, OPD, Medical /Surgical).

The job holder will be responsible for ensuring high quality nursing care, optimal resource utilization and customer care.

Applicants must be in possession of a Bachelor’s degree in nursing or a Diploma in KRCHN. Higher National diploma in a specialized area or valid certification in BLS, ACLS or ATLS will be an added advantage. 

The position requires active knowledge and experience in people management and customer care. 

The successful candidate must have a minimum of 6 years cumulative experience in a busy hospital environment and/or 3 to 5 years experience in a similar position leading a team of nursing staff. 

2. Senior Staff Nurse

(6 Positions) 

Reporting to the Nursing Officer this position is responsible for provision of high quality nursing care within (Maternity, OPD, Medical /Surgical, Theatre).

In addition this position is responsible for shift leading. 

Applicants must be in possession of a Bachelor’s degree in nursing or a Diploma in KRCHN. 

Higher National diploma in a specialized area or valid certification in BLS, ACLS or ATLS and prior experience leading a team will be an added advantage. 

The position requires active knowledge and experience in nursing care. 

The successful candidate must have over 4 years cumulative experience in a busy hospital environment. 

3. Counselor

(1 Position) 

Reporting to the Manager- Medical Services and Psychosocial Support this position will be responsible for provision of quality counselling services. 

Applicants must be in possession of a Degree in Counselling Psychology. 

In addition they must have experience of up to 3 years interacting directly with clients and actively providing support. 

Experience in a busy hospital environment or experience or training in social work will be an added advantage.

Key Competencies that shall apply for all the jobs outlined above are Customer Focus with demonstrated interpersonal skills, Team work, Managing performance, Results orientation, Reliability and high degree of professionalism and ethics

Interested candidate are invited to send their applications and cv on or before 30th November 2014 to vacancies@nwch.co.ke quoting the position applied for as the subject line.

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Médecins du Monde Nurse Counsellor Job in Nairobi Kenya

Position: Nurse Counsellor, Harm Reduction

Status: Employee
 

Starting date: ASAP

Country: Kenya

Base: Nairobi, Kenya

Context of the mission: Médecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. 

It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with population in its care. 

The present job description might be adapted according to the regional context and the uprising potential emergencies.

Duties 

He / she will, with the program team, ensure the following responsibilities.
 

1. Perform daily medical activities in the clinic in Drop In Center

• Welcome the patients, prepare the medical records and sort patients depending on degree of gravity and refer to the clinic urgently if needed.
• Perform nursing care in assigned position:

1. take vital signs of the patients before consultation
2. Carry out wound care / dressing
3. Assist clinician in collecting blood samples and other samples for HIV, STI  and OIs when necessary
4. Provide Hepatitis B vaccination
5. Provide medication to patients based on medical prescription and fill the pharmacy data accordingly

• Control the medical equipment and maintain clinic hygiene and equipment standards to a high level in accordance with best practice, ensure sterilization of medical instruments.
• Handle patients’ charts, store and file the records.
• Provide  and perform :

1. Pre- and post-test HIV counselling as well as tests.
2. Pre and post-test Hepatitis counselling as well as tests
3. Perform ART/TB counselling and adherence follow up

• Participate in mobile clinic and other campaigns

2. Perform specialized counselling activities for patients

• Organize proactively individual counselling sessions (VCT, ART, Methadone) for patients on request or as referred by outreach workers
• Set up a strict follow-up of those patients
• Pro-actively involve family members, relatives and friends of the patients if required, taking prior patient’s agreement.
• Regularly consult outreach team to discuss on individual cases as the need arise
• Participate in decision making process to refer (with clinical officer) patients to specialist services if required
• Respect at all times patient requests and confidentiality.
• Organize proactively collective support groups (PLH, ART, Partner, Methadone etc.) on a regular basis in collaboration with other staffs

3. Participate in Training and sensitization activities

• Participate in monthly peer trainings and sensitization of local stakeholders on request

4. Data collection and information management

• Collect information on counselling, blood tests according to MdM data collection tools
• Support the data clerk in getting proper information by maintaining the (systematic) patients’ chart flow among the consultation room, counselling room and mobile clinic
• Maintain confidentially of patients files and keep the clinic data well organized
• Ensure systematic filing of lab results
• Update the death register of patients.
• Provide input to his/her line-manager in preparation of monthly report.

5. Perform other duties upon request

• Participate in weekly meetings and other program related meetings.
• Perform cash management for costs related to referral
• Promote skills and knowledge transfer to other MDM staff, eventually replicating the contents of attended trainings.
• Behave professionally; showing at all times respect and empathy for patients / target group.
• Show initiative, participate in developing/adapting MDM strategy to target group’s needs

Functional Links

Line of management: He/she works inside the project’s HR organizational chart. (See related document).
 

Line manager: Clinical Officer, Harm Reduction (answerable to Program coordinator)
    
Background of the Candidate

Sex: Male / Female
 

Nationality: Kenya
 

Language: English (fluent),Swahili (fluent)
 

Humanitarian Experience: Experience in similar position at least 3 years 
Experience in working with marginalized population preferably people who use drug
 

Computer: Able to use Windows environment (word, excel)efficiently

Skills Required :

• Degree/diploma in Nursing
• High national diploma [HND] / Degree/ diploma in counselling
• Working experience in hospital settings  or similar experiences on INGO (international NGO)
• Working experience with most at risk populations (MARPs)/key affected population
• Ability to work quickly, under pressure, and with short deadlines
• Necessity to manage priorities and to adapt them daily according to the context
• Ability to manage own tasks
• Must demonstrate flexibility to adapt to changing requirements.

Personal skills required:

• Excellent nursing and counselling skills
• Ability to listen and share decisions
• Flexibility, Reactivity, anticipation, adaptability, initiativeness
• Non-judgemental  attitude towards (injecting) drug use and (injecting) drug users
• Respecting confidentiality of beneficiaries and security of data bases
• Good communication skills
• Report writing (an asset)

If you believe you are the ideal candidate we are looking for, please submit your application and CV to the following email address recruitement.mdm@gmail.com with the title: Harm Reduction Nurse Counsellor, Kenya by Friday, 7th November 2014. 

Only shortlisted applicant will be contacted.

No application will be considered after the closing date as well as any application received by phone or in our office.

MDM is an equal employer and female candidates are encouraged to apply.

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LVCT Health Data Analysis of Voluntary Counseling, HIV Testing and AIDS Care Study Consultancy Opportunity

Terms of Reference: Data Analysis of Voluntary counseling, HIV Testing and AIDS Care Study Consultancy
 

LVCT Health is an independent Kenyan non-governmental and non-profit organization. 

LVCT Health provides technical assistance to the government of Kenya and other governments in Africa, civil society and private sector partners in strengthening responses to HIV prevention, care and treatment, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) interventions. 

We seek a highly capable individual to conduct descriptive, exploratory and inferential data analysis of Voluntary counseling, HIV testing and AIDS care in standalone community centers and health facilities Project 2004-2010

Study Background
 

Project Title: Voluntary counseling, HIV testing and AIDS care in standalone community centers and health facilities Project 2004-2010
 

Study Aim: 

Project Goals: To conduct secondary analysis of program data collected from 2004 – 2010 for program evaluation

Project Objectives:
 

a) For training data:

• To write a descriptive report on the trainings conducted from 2004 – 2010 to identify LVCT’s contribution to training of HTC providers; describe developments in training of providers; provide supportive evidence for documentation of developments and trends in the HIV response in Kenya.

b) For HIV testing and counselling ( HTC) data:

• To identify factors associated with HIV seropositivity
• To establish behavior trends and clinical characteristics among clients attending HTC, stratified by relevant demographic characteristics
• To establish factors associated with HIV sero-conversion among previously HIV negative clients attending HTC services
• To identify factors associated partner uptake of HTC

c) For Care and treatment data:

• To describe socio-demographic characteristics of clients attending the care and treatment clinics
• To determine the patterns of and factors associated with the uptake, adherence to and retention in HIV care and ARV medication among HIV infected individuals and couples
• To identify and patterns of disease progression among clients attending care and treatment services
• To describe the toxicities associated with specific antiretroviral drugs and other drug regimens
• To describe the relationship, effect and burden of TB on the management of HIV
• To describe and identify factors associated with the uptake of prevention measures among HIV positive clients and their partners

Sampling Methodology: Subsets of data from each database will be purposively selected for analysis as is appropriate for each question and objective.

This selection of subsets of data may be based on demographic characteristics, geographical spread and other considerations relevant to the objective. 

For example, to determine the factors associated with the uptake, adherence to and retention in HIV care and ARV medication among HIV infected couples, only data for those tested as couples will be selected for analysis.

Expected application of results: 

These project analytic results are expected to:

1. Inform policy, planning and review of curriculums for pre- and in-service training of community and facility based HIV service providers delivering integrated HIV services
2. Provide evidence to facilitate targeted prevention messaging within integrated services and prevention programs
3. Provide evidence for effective HTC approaches for reaching HIV positive clients and couples. Provide evidence to strengthen delivery of care and treatment options with optimal outcomes for patients on different regimens
4. Demonstrate feasibility and effectiveness of the voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) plus model in increasing uptake of care and treatment among HIV positive clients

Purpose of consultancy: The purpose of this consultancy is to do develop a data analysis plan, carry out data cleaning; analysis; interpretation of results; report writing to answer the study objectives and present findings.
 

This assignment requires: culling information across multiple data files; producing a descriptive summary of findings; producing a report that summarizes and analyzes findings of the study.
 

Data Outline

 

Expected results

• Develop together with project team data analysis plan.
• Organise, clean and prepare data for analysis.
• Carry out descriptive and inferential analysis to answer study objectives.
• Prepare and present results report.

Timeframe (dates/days may be revised after presentation of inception report)

Location: This position will be based at LVCT Health HQ offices. Availability for face-to-face meetings and working with study team when required is necessary.

Key competences, technical background, and experience required:

• Advanced university degree in Statistics/Biometry/Biostatistics/Applied statistics/Public Health, Epidemiology or related field, with knowledge of information management, data management and statistical analysis using SPSS and NVIVO.
• At least 5 years of experience in the area of data analysis for biological and social sciences or related field.
• Ability to summarize and analyze large amounts of data, highlight critical findings and draw pertinent conclusions.
• Excellent, clear and concise English writing skills and style. Ability to condense information into sharp, short paragraphs.
• Ability to critically think through and propose a method for summarizing and presenting information for policy makers and programmers.
• Knowledge of health systems is an asset.

Applications should be submitted in soft copy to recruitment@lvcthealth.org or in hard copy, hand delivered to LVCT Health HQ located off Argwings Kodhek Road on or before Monday, 22nd September 2014 indicating: Expression of Interest: Data Analysis of Voluntary counseling, HIV testing and AIDS care Study Consultancy in the subject line or on the envelope.
 

Applications must include: CV of lead consultant, demonstration of previous similar completed assignments, indicative budget and two referees.

Those who do not meet the above criteria need not apply.

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Danish Refugee Council Lead Psychosocial Counsellor Job in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization that promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. 

DRC has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of African region since 1997. 

The DRC Kenya program is seeking qualified candidates for the following position:

Lead Psychosocial Counsellor – Dadaab Refugee Camp
 

The Lead Psychosocial Counselor (GBV) will support the successful coordination & implementation of all psychosocial activities, and will be responsible for the provision of quality Case Management, Support training of partners, staff and community workers to respond to cases of GBV and ensure effective referral for survivors of GBV. 

This includes providing ongoing training and utilizing monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure high quality services are available and utilized. 

The Lead Psychosocial Counselor will provide technical guidance and leadership required for the successful implementation of all psychosocial activities and ensure provision of professional and confidential services to survivors of GBV through a  survivor centered case management approach. 

This position reports to the GBV & CDPI Team Leader.
 

Requirements:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Counseling and/or Psychology.
• Master’s degree in the same fields is an added advantage.
• 3 years hands on experience in counseling preferably with persons of concern, 
• Knowledge in gender issues and human rights, 
• Working experience in refugee situations will be an added advantage, 
• Excellent, Good facilitation/training skills and project report writing skills, 
• Ability to communicate in a highly professional manner with clients, community members and professional partners, 
• Able to complete required reporting and documentation by deadlines, 
• Motivated, innovative and possesses outstanding organizational and inter-personal skills and professional integrity, 
• Willing to work in a hardship area.

Submission of Application:
 

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their applications. 

Each application should include a 1 page cover letter clearly stating their motivation and qualifications and a CV. 

Application should include contact of three professional referees. 

One referee must be the applicant’s most recent manager. 

Applications should be sent to drcjobs@drckenya.org and have the subject heading of the position that is being applied for.

Deadline for receiving applications is Friday, 5th September 2014

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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