JOB DESCRIPTION: HIV Counselling Advisor

HIV and AIDS Comprehensive Care Programme
Nigeria (URC-HACCP)

JOB DESCRIPTION: HIV Counselling Advisor
Functional relationships
- Directly responsible to the HIV Clinical Adviser and overall to the Chief of Party
- Works in collaboration with other members of the URC Nigeria team
Job Summary
The overall function of this position is to ensure the HIV and AIDS Comprehensive Care Programme has sustainable, high quality and client focused HIV Counselling and Testing Services

Job Description
1. Counselling
· Assist in Counselling of HIV infected or affected clients at URC supported sites and outreach activities to include counselling and testing, adherence counselling and psychosocial support counselling
· Providing counselling supervision, mentorship and on the job training for all the clinical and counselling staff at URC supported health facilities
· Ensuring that the optimal standard of counselling is achieved by establishing and maintaining the use of nationally approved counselling guidelines and protocols and with the help of the Clinical Adviser, updating your knowledge of HIV/AIDS Counselling practices
2. Systems mentorship support
· Together with the Clinical Adviser (CA) identify, assess and implement HIV counselling and follow up services at selected health facilities in Enugu State and beyond
· To ensure the quality of counselling services at all URC supported facilities and activities. This will be done through the implementation of quality assurance systems to include counselor support supervision, counselor self assessment, development of site assessment checklists, regular support mentorship visits, data collection systems support , quality control in conjunction with the laboratory adviser and development of strong cadre of counselors at URC supported sites.
3. Reporting and Strategic Work planning
· Prepare a monthly work plan detailing proposed objectives, activities and costs for HIV Counselling at URC supported facilities adhering to overall programme budgets and Strategic Work plan
· Prepare monthly reports on the implementation of the URC HIV Counselling programme and submit and discuss this with the Clinical Adviser
· Guide the strategic direction of the HIV counselling programme for the URC Nigeria project
4. Capacity building
· To coordinate under the guidance of the CA, training programmes for clinical and non clinical staff in counselling aspects of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT), testing for HIV, adherence to therapy and all other allied HIV counselling in clinical and non clinical settings
· Ensure that individual, organizational (URC), state and the national capacity to undertake HIV are enhanced. This will be done through the preparation of regular technical briefs to be shared at all four levels as appropriate
· To represent the Clinical Adviser in technical working groups at state and national levels when called upon

QUALIFICATION
Candidates should have at least a B.sc in Nursing, with not less than 3 years working experience, Counseling skills, and Must have been undergone HIV Counseling Training or worked with an establishment with similar mandate.

TO APPLY
Send your Application and CV to [email protected]
Offer lasts till 7th of April 2011