Mpumalanga: Clinical Mentor – (Professional Nurse or Medical Doctor – Wits RHI) posted by AJ Personnel

About the Role

Wits RHI is supporting the Department of Health (DOH) in the introduction of a new contraceptive, subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC), into Public Health Clinics in South Africa. The purpose of this Clinical Mentor role is to provide support at selected Learning sites with the introduction of DMPA-SC, including training and mentoring to Nurses and Pharmacists, identifying key service delivery points, stakeholder engagement and advocacy, management of staff, and implementation of DMPA-SC within the package of contraceptive choice.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide training and mentoring to Nurses and Pharmacists in contraceptive choice and the provision of DMPA-SC.
• Identify key service delivery points within the clinic to promote access and integration of SRH and HIV services and leverage opportunities for the provision of DMPA-SC, and other contraceptives.
• Engage with stakeholders at community, facility, and district level to promote contraceptive choice and DMPA-SC as a self-care option.
• Train all healthcare providers; lay community health workers; health promotes; NGOs; and CBOs in the promotion and support of contraceptive choice and supporting women in the self-administration of DMPA-SC.
• Manage other staff at site level.
• Support the implementation of DMPA-SC within the package of contraceptive choice at selected facilities.
• Ensure clinical services are provided as per DOH policies and guidelines.
• Monitor the quality-of-service delivery, and where required, engage in quality improvement activities with DOH to improve quality of care.
• Record and provide oversight for data quality of nurses in compliance with M&E reporting requirements.
• Contribute to project reports on clinical service delivery, as requested.
• Participate in monitoring activities mandated by the project management.

Requirements

• A Curr, BNurs, Nursing Diploma, MBChB or equivalent.
• Code 10 Valid SA driver’s license.
• Professional Body Registration: HPCSA and SANC.
• Required minimum work experience: Experience in sexual and reproductive health service provision and healthcare provider training, mentoring, and support visits.

Desirable Additional Education, Work Experience, and Personal Abilities

• Prior experience in a research setting.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder engagements and engaging community stakeholders.
• Sound technical knowledge of SRH service provision, and specifically contraception.
• Knowledge of provincial, district, and clinic management structures.
• Ability to communicate and work with different cadres of personnel management, clinicians; non-clinical, and community-based.
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and demonstrates effective self-management.
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback.
• Experience working in a donor-funded organisation/NGO or project-based environment.
• Knowledge of health systems and data management.
• Exceptional organisational, administrative, and effective communication skills together with knowledge of Microsoft Office and Excel.
• Ordered and systematic in approach to tasks with close attention to detail.
• Proactive, able to exercise discretion and independent decision-making.
• Able to prioritise own workload and work towards deadlines.
• Reside in the area.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently, and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to speak other South African languages.
• Dispensing licence.
• Monitoring and evaluation; data collection and reporting.

Required Minimum Education and Training

A Curr, BNurs, Nursing Diploma, MBChB or equivalent. Code 10 Valid SA driver’s license. Professional Body Registration: HPCSA and SANC.