Medical Officer

Medical Officer LPK is mainly responsible for

1. Clinical consultation and management
2. Technical capacity building for Project site program staff around HIV/ TB and other related program activities
3. Program data review achievement and feedback
4. Data recording keeping and reporting as per program guidelines

1. Clinical Consultation and Management

The duties and responsibilities of Medical Doctor include:

• Provide clinical consultation and management of HIV/TB/STI/RH with the quality management according to service minded and maintain confidential records and registers of patients their conditions and treatment provided.
• Cooperate with counsellors and Peer Navigators closely as a team to provide HIV cascade care continuum.
• Ensure TB/OI screening prophylaxis and baseline investigations for ART initiation to all HIV positive cases and suspected TB cases.
• Providing of prevention services like IPT and PrEP to those who are eligible.
• Ensure all clients tested HIV positive are receiving ART treatment or successful referral of patients for ART initiation in collaboration with NAP.
• Ensure medical psychosocial care and patients support for all PLHIV are implemented for successful modified decentralization of ART.
• Ensure the availability of pharmaceuticals at LPK clinic and maintain an inventory of medicine and other items for OI treatment follow up of consumption forecasting and pharmacy order of Yangon LPK clinics.
• Ensure Substantial risk for HIV infection acute HIV infection recent exposure to HIV counselling for PrEP users and PrEP eligibility for PrEP potential users.
• Provide clinical consultation and management of PrEP in accordance with Myanmar National PrEP guideline.
• Interact with other members of the LPK team to ensure quality and relevance of activities compared to objectives of the program.
• Monitors progress of activities according to work plans project plans and targets; identifies problems and proposes solutions.
• Organises the capacity building of medical staff and contributes for technical aspects to trainings of prevention staff.
• Active participation in programs related meetings or trainings within organization and also need to attend external meetings which are related to clinics activities.
• Ensure infection control in the clinic universal precautions and sterilization procedures are followed according to SOPs.
• Provide quality sexual and reproductive health counselling and services to beneficiaries.

1. Technical capacity building for project site program staff around HIV/TB and other program related activities

• Plan conduct and facilitate regular technical capacity building session for respective project staff.
• Share updated technical information with the project team.
• Assess and improve technical capacity of Counsellors Peer navigators and peer outreach workers.

1. Program data review Achievement and feedback

• Work closely with Area Supervisor in analysing achievement of program data.
• After analysing achievement sharing inputs seeking challenges and taking action accordingly in positive and cooperative approach.
• Cooperate and coordinate with other team members such as Counsellors and Peer Navigators to ensure the adherence not only incompliance patients and loss to follow up patients for ART pre ART clients and PrEP clients.

1. Data recording Keeping and reporting as per program guidelines

• Conduct in recording the data such as the Pre ART (black book) ART (red book) and white cards correctly and PrEP screening forms Facility record and PrEP follow up forms etc. accurately.
• Keep all the files records and information thoroughly to ensure the confidentiality of all the clients.

Qualifications :

• • Must be M.B.B.S; (preferably previous experience in managing HIV patients TB patients and PrEP provision)
  • Minimum 1 year of experience in managing the HIV & TB patients.
  • Must have appropriate professional competencies and qualifications;
  • English language skills are an asset;
  • Must be a good team player
  • Should be organized systematic and dynamic and must interact well with others.

Additional Information :

0

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract