Medical Field Officer
City-wide TB Elimination Campaign in Cebu City
Project Overview and Role:
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Project Overview
USAID’s ProtectHealth,
based in Manila, the Philippines, in collaboration with other USAID projects,
supports the Government of the Philippines (GPH) to enhance access and
financing to meet key HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and family planning (FP) outcomes
while realizing its goal of achieving universal health care (UHC). USAID’s
ProtectHealth will specifically support GPH’s implementation of the UHC Law by
addressing policy and institutional bottlenecks within the health financing
system.
USAID’s ProtectHealth
provides technical assistance (TA) to the GPH to rapidly and effectively enact
reforms envisioned in new legislation on UHC (Republic Act 11223) and TB
(Republic Act 10767). Specifically, USAID’s ProtectHealth builds GPH capacity
by testing the implementation of different health financing reforms in selected
Local Government Units (LGUs) to generate evidence and influence policy
development at the national and local level. In this context, USAID’s
ProtectHealth is supporting the implementation of the City-wide TB Elimination
Campaign (CiTEC) in Cebu City in collaboration with USAID’s TB Innovations and
Health Systems Strengthening (IHSS). CiTEC aims to generate evidence and
develop approaches, tools, and systems to support the Department of Health
(DOH) and PhilHealth to implement UHC, using TB as the tracer program. In terms
of financing, USAID’s ProtectHealth provides support to Cebu City in securing
grants from the DOH Central and Regional units, enhance the current TB DOTS Outpatient
Benefit Package of PhilHealth, to include TB network accreditation, and ensure
efficient consolidation of funds through the establishment of the Special
Health Fund (SHF) or a similar fund pooling mechanism (e.g., TB trust fund),
among others.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
This is a Cebu City-based consultancy,
reporting directly to the Field Implementation Specialist responsible for
implementing, coordinating, and supervising clinical aspects of various
activities under CiTEC, in support of USAID’s ProtectHealth project. The duties
of a Medical Field Officer will include, but are not limited to:
●Ensure screening, sputum collection, sputum transport (via STRiders), treatment initiation, TB treatment, and management is timely and in accordance with TB protocol / clinical practice guidelines (CPGs);
●Ensure treatment adherence monitoring of TB patients is regularly performed, including referral of diagnosed TB patients for PHIC registration as needed and filing of claims after the end of treatment phases;
●Review weekly CiTEC progress and CiTEC TB data to ensure appropriate diagnosis, timely treatment, and regular monitoring of identified TB cases;
●Effectively communicate the relevance and importance of TB elimination and CiTEC to external partners in the field, such as barangay officials, City Health Workers (CHWs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and Mambaling residents in the community;
●Discuss and coordinate with Health Care Institutions (HCIs), public and private, on TB/Primary Care Provider Network (TCPN/PCPN) discussions;
●Coordinate with the CiTEC field team in the implementation of TB service delivery activities;
●Report updates on the TB service delivery to the CHO on a regular basis;
●Ensure confidentiality of CiTEC data collected and compliance with Data Privacy Act; and
●Perform any other tasks related to CiTEC as may be directed by the Field Implementation Specialist and RMELFA Adviser.
Required Qualifications:
●Degree in Medicine and has passed the Philippine Physician Licensure Examination;
●Licensed medical doctor;
●Knowledge and experience in the treatment and management of TB cases and program management, an advantage;
●Willingness to be trained on the TB Manual of Procedures (MOP), training on the TB MOP an advantage;
●Sound written and verbal communication skills in Cebuano and English;
●Familiarity and strong ability to connect with the CiTEC community, Brgy. Mambaling, an advantage;
●Strong organizational skills to ensure activities, schedules and progress of work are on schedule;
●Ability to work as a part of a team when required.
Company Overview:
About Palladium - Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people's lives.
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