General Summary
The Medical Officer will ensure delivery of quality HIV/AIDS care and treatment services to clients by providing technical and leadership support to health facility teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide clinical care to HIV/AIDS patients attending the IDI clinic and other IDI-supported health facilities in line with standard care and treatment guidelines.
- Assess and diagnose clinical patient problems, order appropriate diagnostic tests and prescribe medication for patients
- Coordinate appropriate referral and management of complex patients through liaison with senior care specialists and other tertiary treatment centers.
- Contribute to performance monitoring initiatives and routine data use activities at the IDI clinic
- Support the team to identify, implement and document continuous quality improvement activities along client care and treatment cascades.
- Coordinate and support facility efforts in follow up of clients to improve linkage, retention and viral suppression rates among clients in HIV care.
- Participate in weekly Continuing Medical Education sessions
- Contribute to Research efforts as will be appropriate
- Any other duties as may reasonably be assigned from time to time.
Academic Qualification
- Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery
Person Specification
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery Degree
- Completion of lnternship training with evidence
- Full and active registration with the UMDPC
- Additional training in HIV/AIDS care and opportunistic infections is added advantage
- Experience and up-to-date technical knowledge of HIV/AIDS clinical care and ART
- Good communication, organization and management skills
- Understands client confidentiality and exhibits high level of ethical conduct
Has basic computer literacy including word processing, excel, internet and power point.
