Job Title: Clinician – 2 Positions
Organisation: Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
Other Locations: Namayingo
About Organisation:
Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) emerged from the Mulago – Mbarara Teaching Hospitals Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) which was established in November 2004 under the then Makerere University Faculty of Medicine. Over the last 20 years, we have broadened our work beyond the support of provision of comprehensive HIV and TB services to include capacity strengthening for health care workers across Uganda and conduct research to inform policies for HIV/TB and other HIV comorbidities in the country.
Job Summary: The Clinicians will work with and support respective health facility teams to enrol all newly identified HIV positive clients in care and on ART, and to provide high quality HIV and TB care and treatment services along the care continuum as per the national guidelines for HIV prevention, care and treatment through ongoing patient clinical assessments and management, data reviews and reporting, and applying quality improvement approaches to close existing service quality gaps.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Participate in day-to-day running of the HIV/AIDS and integrated HIV/TB clinics at supported health facilities including daily enrollment of newly identified HIV positive clients.
- Work with other health facility staff and projected volunteers to strengthen targeted HIV eligibility screening at all facility entry points and testing all those eligible for the HIV test.
- Daily review of all HTS services data tools both at facility and from outreaches to track all new HIV positive clients in collaboration with community linkages structures and ensure their enrolment into care and on ART to completion.
- Work with the facility, district and project M&E teams to ensure up-to-date data collection and reporting mechanisms are responsive to the needs of the district, project, MoH and other stakeholders.
- Ensure that the project’s facilities and district’s HIV/AIDS support for activities is well coordinated and demonstrate results towards set targets.
- In collaboration with supported facility, district and cluster staff monitor and support attainment of HIV Care enrolment, Care & Treatment Performance targets as per the national guidelines.
- Work with other facility, district, and project staff to plan and implement quality improvement activities to improve HIV testing outputs, enrolment and retention of clients in care and on ART, clinical and laboratory services monitoring aimed at improved delivery of high-quality HIV continuum of services.
- Support facilities in forecasting, quantifying, and requisitioning adequate commodities to support the HIV care and treatment continuum including ARVs, HIV test kits, viral load kits and opportunistic infections (O. Is) management medicines.
- Support health facilities in the management of patients with Advanced HIV Disease and implement active pharmacovigilance for HIV and TB medicines.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A Diploma in Clinical Medicine or Nursing with experience in HIV and TB clinical services delivery improvement.
- Additional training in HIV/AIDS and TB clinical management.
- Knowledge in HIV/AIDS clinical management, including the current national guidelines for HIV and TB prevention, care and treatment.
- At least 3 years’ experience in managing HIV/AIDS and TB services in clinical settings.
- Willingness to work in rural settings.
- Excellent Counselling, Interpersonal, Communication and Computer/ICT Skills.
- Ability to communicate in the language dialects used in East Central region (Lusoga, Lugweri, Swahili, Samia, Luganda).
How to Apply:
Qualified candidates are invited to apply by 5:00 PM EAT on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
Please submit your application via this link: https://forms.gle/XPUUTCoKAAgdUB1Q9 For details about advertised position, please visit the website of Makerere University Joint AIDS Program.
Deadline: 6th August 2025
Consider your application unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by August 8th, 2025. Offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references including but not limited to appropriate background checks, criminal records, and previous employment findings of fraud, corruption, sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures. Please ensure that your attachments do not exceed 25 MB. We do appreciate your interest to work with MJAP. However, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted within one week after the submission deadline.
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Level of Education: Diploma, Associate’s Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36