Flaviana Lucas Mzungu
Kahama
Summary
Efficient, innovative, and committed bachelor’s degree holder in Nursing registered under Tanzania Nursing and Midwifery council with over 3 years of experience supporting Community health initiatives. Proactive and reliable multitasker with excellent organization skills, community engagement skills, and excellent team building. Highly motivated team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and passion for process improvement efforts. Currently working with SHDEPHA+ as Health and HIV officer in ACHIEVE project intervein on bidirectional referral and linkage on health and HIV issues and GBV and VAC to children living with HIV, HIV-exposed infants and orphan and vulnerable children and their caregivers.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
HEALTH AND HIV OFFICER
SHDEPHA
02.2024 - Current
- Represent Organization and coordinate with the Council Health Management Team regarding HIV and health-related activities at the Council Team
- Schedule quarterly Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) Education outreaches to Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), and DREAMS Girls in school and organize HTC outreaches for adolescents with high-risk behaviors at the Councils Team level
- Facilitate DREAMs teachers and Coaches on ASRHR curriculum
- Support the establishment of a bi-directional referral system to monitor beneficiaries through the HIV continuum of care as well as service completion for other health and social services
- Monitor implementation, bottlenecks, and performance metrics of the bi-directional referral system; proactively offer solutions, conduct quality improvement activities, and implement adjustments to improve referral outcomes
- Conducting Case Conference for Children who face Gender-based Violence and Violence Against Children with Social well fare officer
- Identify Adolescents who are out of school to be sponsored with VETA scholarship
- Hold monthly coordination meetings with Care and Treatment Centers (CTC) in the implementation area to support shared confidentiality, facilitate case conferencing, improve the bi-directional referral system, and ensure HIV-positive beneficiaries receive needed services at the council team level
- Support Early Childhood Development (ECD) corners at targeted health facilities, including regular monitoring and supportive supervision at the council team level
- Support the facilities to have an updated enrollment register that demonstrates the cascade of CLHIV enrollment at the CTC at the Council Team level
- Support Community Case Workers (Community Case Worker) to work with high volume CTCs to trace HIV-positive children who miss appointments, enroll them into the ACHIEVE Project, and link them back to CTCs
- Support Community Case Worker to conduct HIV risk assessments for beneficiaries during case management; refer and link at-risk beneficiaries to HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC)
- Work with Health Facility Implementing Partners to roll out a supplemental HIV curriculum to Community Case Worker and ensure Community Case Worker provide appropriate support to HIV-positive beneficiaries
- Support Community Case Worker to strengthen the capacity of caregivers to support HIV-positive beneficiaries and ensure Community Case Worker refer HIV-positive OV beneficiaries to PLHIV support groups
- Support the rollout of evidence-based curriculums relating to HIV
- Participate in quarterly council-level quality improvement meetings with relevant bi-directional referral system stakeholders; ensure actions from the meetings are implemented and the bi-directional referral system is improved at the Councils Team level
- Work with the M&E officer to ensure all bi-directional referral data are accurate and produced weekly; use data for decision-making at the Councils Team level
- Lead the development of a service directory for health, nutrition, and HIV services in the implementation area; update the directory at least once a year at the Council Team level
- Support Community Case Worker to conduct nutrition activities, including nutrition assessments, counseling, and linkage to other nutrition service providers at the council team level
- Provide continuous supportive supervision to Community Case Worker to ensure the provision of health-related services and referrals and linkages to beneficiaries
- Submit timely updates to the Program Manager for inclusion in the quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports at the Councils Team level
- Document lessons learned and best practices for experience sharing and replication at the Councils Team level
- Perform any other relevant duties as assigned by the Project Manager
ART NURSE
Management and Development for Health (MDH)
01.2023 - 02.2024
- Company Overview: Afya Kwanza
- Supporting the design and implementation, M&E, data use, CQI, reporting, and documentation of HIV, care, treatment, prevention, and TBHIV activities
- Focal Person of Youth friendly services, that included sexual and Reproductive Health services, family planning, GBV awareness, and psychological and social services
- Focal Person of Adolescent and Pediatric HIV Services
- Work in collaboration with MDH staff and CHMTS on identifying and addressing district-specific issues especially HIV, TB early childhood development, gender and violence against children (VAC), and family planning
- Provision of KVP friendly services including HIV testing services and Prevention services such as condom distribution, Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC), PrEP services as well as distribution of leaflets and other materials containing important information to educate KVPs on different matters
- Work in collaboration with PEER educators in identification of different groups at risk of HIV acquisition (KVPs) such as FSW, vAGYW, MSM, DC, PWID&PWUD and other vulnerable population
- Screening cervical CA to PLHIV women and providing referrals when necessary
- Ensuring all clients undergo recommended investigations such as HVL and CD4 in accordance with guidelines
- Work in collaboration with CHMTs and HTS focal persons in planning, implementation, M&E and reporting of HIV testing and ART linkage services
- Ensure timely and complete data entry of HIV testing services, retention and prevention services from paper-based sources to CTC 2 database and DHIS2 in collaboration with CHMT and MDH staffs
- Organizing community ART delivery services as well as working with Ward executive officers (WEO) and village executive officers (VEO) to secure preferred community locations and ensure effective scheduling and communication
- Participating in CQI meetings on CQI indicator matrix and QI problem solving techniques (e.g., why analysis and fish bone analysis) in achievement of three 95’s
- Perform activities as PrEP focal person under MDH including supporting monitoring, evaluation and learning of community HIV prevention and KVP services
- Support and supervise Community outreach volunteers (COV) and Community expert clients (CECs) and Community based health service providers (CBHSP) in provision of community ART and tracking services
- Work with MDH staffs, in HIV care and treatment services, TB and Gender violence issues
- Servicing to People Living with HIV (PLHIV) on their daily clinic attendance and adherence counseling
- Scaling up of community ART services to stable clients including patient tracking and continuum of care of ART clients
- Support community ART outreach services in integration with other essential services including early infant diagnosis (EID), viral load testing, TB and STI screening and clinical ART monitoring
- Work with retention teams, including Trackers and CBHSP to support community/home based tracking and returning to care of patients who have dropped out of care and ensure timely feedback
- Work with community-based Health Service Providers (CBHSP) to sensitize the community to HIV/AIDS and TB prevention activities
- Organizing WIT/QI meetings within the facility to discuss progress towards the target and the quality of services offered within the community
- Ensure adequate supplies of care and treatment working tools, guidelines, training manuals and relevant SOPs on community ART services
- Working with MDH under AFYA KWANZA project in HIV testing services, counseling, linking to care and treatment centers to clients identified to be HIV positive
- Participating in analysis and documentation of MDH prevention and retention work through writing posters, policy briefs and conference presentation
- Supporting Monitoring and evaluation of prevention services including data collection, analysis, quality assurance, reporting and utilization
- Supporting efforts in identifying gaps in ART retention services
- Performing other duties as assigned by facility in charge
- Afya Kwanza
INTERN NURSE
Muhimbili National Hospital
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: Mloganzila
- Applying and demonstrating principle of teaching and learning to improve quality of health services
- Educating patients in all aspects of HIV disease, treatment management, prevention as well as basic health lifestyles
- Ensuring that patients receive appropriate clinical care during a clinic visit, including scheduled or unscheduled physician examination and laboratory test
- Providing care to terminal ill patients with HIV/AIDS and other medical condition
- Providing Health Education to clients
- Supervision of general nursing and midwifery hospital services
- Providing bed side nursing care
- Providing care to pregnant women
- Counseling patients with regard to HIV diagnosis, management of medications, medication and clinic visits adherence, psychosocial issues, and basic health self-care
- Accurate and complete documentation of patient information and patient encounters in the patient medical record
- Mloganzila
Education
Bachelors of Science - Nursing
ST. John’s University Of Tanzania
01.2021
Advance Secondary education -
Bukoba Secondary School
01.2017
Secondary education -
Boniconsili Mabamba Secondary School
01.2014
Skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Ability to learn new working environment and adapt new changes
- Good team building
- Enhancement of good work relationship
- Collaborative communicator
- Good facilitator
- Problem Solving
- Adaptability
- Handling Pressure
- Leadership
Certification
Mashaka Obed,
Project Manager ACHIEVE – SHDEPHA+ (Shinyanga)
+255 769386856 – obedmashaka@yahoo.com
supervisor
Alindwa Kato Bandio,
District Community Service Manager – MDH (Kagera)
+255 764215181– bandiojunior@gmail.com -
Mentor & Former Supervisor
Iphegenia Sandra Tilubuza,
Youth Intervention Officer ACHIEVE – SHDEPHA+ (Shinyanga)
+255 654521963 - redempthamatindi@yahoo.com - Mentor
Certification
I, the undersigned certify to the best of my knowledge and belief that this biodata is correctly described by my educational background, qualification and myself.
Date; 14/2/2024
Signature; ........................
Timeline
HEALTH AND HIV OFFICER
SHDEPHA
02.2024 - Current
ART NURSE
Management and Development for Health (MDH)
01.2023 - 02.2024
INTERN NURSE
Muhimbili National Hospital
11.2021 - 11.2022
Advance Secondary education -
Bukoba Secondary School
Secondary education -
Boniconsili Mabamba Secondary School
Bachelors of Science - Nursing
ST. John’s University Of Tanzania
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