• Support the District coordinator in ensuring capacity of health workers is built to provide TB services
• Support district coordinator to convene Quarterly BMU coordination and data review meetings
• Work alongside health facilities to ensure quality of care is maintained as per national protocol
• Work with Facility staffs to develop monthly patients list for follow up sputum
• Conduct Monthly supervision to BMUs using supervisory checklist
• Support M&E officer in data collection for monitoring and decision making
• Successful implementation of community based treatment supporters system
• Support the Project Manager and District Coordinator in establishing community-based treatment and care for TB patients
• Support implementation, monitoring and reporting of community-based treatment and care for TB as per national protocol
• Coordinate contact tracing activities with treatment supporters
• Ensures treatment supporters supervise DOTS early at community level
• Ensure each treatment supporters follows standard operating procedures and all sites requirements
• Improve treatment supporters recording and reporting system.
• Act as the DOTS focal point for treatment supporters at case management meetings
• Develop and execute CB-DOTS supervisory plan for DOTS/TB activities at community level
• Provide on the job trainings to treatment supporters.
• Work with treatment supporters to collects quality sputum from patients required to provide sputum as per schedule
• Ensures that patients who miss treatment are promptly followed and brought back to treatment and care
• Collaborate closely with partners on ground for collaborative implementation and project success

Requirements:

• Graduated with a Nursing course, HEO or CHW
• 2 years’ experience working alongside the district health system
• Excellent written documentation and report-making skills, Proficient in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Has experienced hospital/clinical practice (knows how to inject drugs, dispense medicines, etc.)
• Speaks local language is a bonus
• Training on the TB Program a plus