PHILISIWE LUTHULI
Health And Social Services
Durban
Summary
Effective in community programme development and successful implementation towards outcomes achievement. Skilled in supporting teams navigating healthcare community programs. Positive, upbeat and friendly with good relationship-building and conflict resolution skills. A professional health worker who is results oriented. Experienced in community health program management which has supported delivering successful programs outcomes, impacting program staff and program beneficiaries. I am motivated by success and challenges as I learn, grow and support teams towards progressive project outcomes.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Lead OVC
MatCH Institute (ASHTEC EC)
12.2023
- Lead program inception in the 5 districts of Eastern Cape by providing technical expertise, program direction, resource mobilization and capacity building for implementation
- Contribute to program planning, resource mobilization, implementation, program management with effective monitoring towards prescribed outcomes by funder
- Crafted program orientation program package for staff onboarding and capacity strengthening towards program goals delivery
- Provide field technical support to over 200 program staff assigned for implementation in the 5 districts whilst ensuring integration of OVC implementation with health facilities, community stakeholders, government departments and DREAMS partners
- Guide advocacy for service delivery for beneficiary and household benefit with high impact services as the lead of implementation of OVC CCM and OVC DREAMS activities
- Lead progress report of program implementation through weekly program monitoring and reporting on challenges and successes
- Report on quarterly, SAPR and APR for program milestones against annual targets.
Snr PREVENTION PROGRAMS OVC and IES COORDINATOR
AIDS Foundation of South Africa (AFSA)
10.2020 - 10.2023
- Leads overall program implementation of OVC and IES projects in KZN 2 district UGU and KCD and Mpumalanga 3 districts (Nkangala, Gert Sibande and Ehlanzeni), funded by USAID through FHI360
- Participate on prevention management strategic planning sessions for annual project outcomes
- Ensure program teams are well oriented and capacitated towards program goals (Case management and continuum of care) through planned monthly and quarterly training sessions
- Manages and supports key program implementation leads 2x OVC District Coordinators, 5x IES Coordinators, 1x Clinical Coordinator, 1x EBI Coordinator and 1x MERQ Coordinator
- Supports operations of 160+ implementing team with a total of R26 million plus budget expenditure for both IES and OVC projects
- Deliver presentations compiled for NDOH and partners reporting, provide on-site support coaching, guide and mentorship of program implementation towards funder’s assigned annual targets
- Lead implementation of HIV Prevention community program, OVCY Family Strengthening Program with special focus on young people who are orphaned, ensuring structured interventions aimed at HIV and TB eradication and management
- Work guided by DOH guidelines towards realization of 95 95 95 coverage in HIV and TB cases
- Ensure strategic direction and management of OVCY and IES projects, providing technical support working with District partners and WBPHCOT teams in the community for high impact services with successful contact tracing outcomes
- Account to funder on program progress, challenges and innovations made through weekly reporting, quarterly reports (statistical and narratives) and Best Practice meeting engagements
- Responsible for SIMS preparation, Data Quality Assurance and Validation
- Stakeholder management - liaise with different community structures, government/ departmental officials to ensure program implementation is community focused and adheres with guidelines and quality standards
- Support capacity development of staff through identified program and staff needs assessment to ensure high quality service provision
- Support Grant Accountant on program financial accounting, expenditures and audit preparation
- Support in managing, allocation of program equipment with resource procurement and management
- Support HR activities: Ensure program is well resourced with experienced staff based
- Support district teams in hosting wellness campaigns aimed at holistic health of OVC beneficiaries especially adolescent health matters and GBV issues in the households
- Support Economic strengthening of Young Women (YW) aged 20 to 24 years who are out of school and not working
- Ensure support towards employment and start-up of small businesses that leads to independence so that YW do not rely on transactional relationships which exposes them to high risk of attaining HIV and other communicable diseases.
MASTER TRAINER
MatCH
04.2019 - 09.2020
- Deliver presentations compiled by NDOH, provide on-site mentorship and supervision to Outreach Team Leaders (OTL's)
- Staff support, coaching and mentorship including the Community Health Workers (CHW's)
- Support CHW's conducting household visits, facilitating health promotion to household members on different health issues especially HIV, TB, Sexual and reproductive health, maternal health and psychosocial services available within the community
- Evaluate training/ instructional materials, teaching aids and other educational devices
- Review and monitor trainees progress, implement assessment strategies to determine the trainee’s competence with areas of growth
- Assist the WBPHCOT with data collecting, reporting to the facility on cases done in the community, referred for health and other support services
- Report compilation, submission on programme progress (statistical and comprehensive)
- Train the clinic committees on governance and administration
- Mentor clinic committees on implementing, supporting the clinics and the community, ensuring its functionality
- Support to 3 implementing districts (Alfred Nzo, uMgungundlovu and Harry Gwala) for WBPHCOT and Clinic committee governance
- Facility support on file clean up, pt tracing, update on Tier, active linkage to treatment, ensuring all registers, files and the system is up to date
- Coordinating community education on Covid 19, screening and testing (assign EThekwini South Region).
DEMAND CREATION OFFICER
INSIMU MEDICAL GROUP, IMG
08.2018 - 03.2019
- Work with KZN health department in different districts through local facilities, to create demand for VMMC within prevention packages
- Plan and execute VMMC camps (campaigns) in different districts throughout KZN
- Camps are done within health facilities and at times within community, depending on area and resources available
- Represent IMG in key VMMC DOH strategic meetings
- Ensure patients information is gathered according to reporting guidelines, analyze and report through relevant line of communications within department and other NGO partners
- Support and assist clinical teams with quality improvement in their daily clinical work (especially in big camps)
- Monitor annual targets against performance and work with team to make plans that ensure realization of target assigned
- Work with community stakeholders, gate keepers and other structures within community to ensure services are offered are of good standard that also respect human dignity to all men accessing services
- Assist with fleet management and logistics for outreach teams as well as other logistics related to hosting VMMC camp
- Work with Linkage navigators and mobilizers to disseminate information and ensure VMMC camps are hosted according to plan and convenience for client and or patient whilst ensuring maximum outputs all year round.
PSYCHOSOCIAL TECHNICAL ADVISOR
Zoe-life ZL, MST
07.2017 - 07.2018
- Capacity development and support of DOH staff on pediatric and adolescent counselling and care
- Orientate and support implementation of adherence and disclosure guidelines
- Work with facility and community-based organizations to upscale case identification, link them up to appropriate child and adolescent friendly services and ensure retention into care working with community health workers
- Support quality improvement plans and implementation at facility and community level for improvement of health activities
- Mentorship and support of 7 government facilities within uMgungundlovu district
- Ensure program progress is monitored towards fulfilling funder’s objective (ELMA - UB) in line with DOH targets
- Preparation and presentation of reports (statistical as well as narrative reports) and organizational representation in key meetings
- Ensure continuum of care, linkages between health facilities and community-based programs
- Work with PAC and LAC to ensure programs are prioritizing child health activities and interventions
- Support and implement electronic integrated management of childhood illnesses research pilot project at Department of Health facility
- Support CBO’s on community Integrated management of childhood illnesses (CIMCI) program.
PREVENTION PROGRAMS COORDINATOR
AIDS Foundation of SA (AFSA)
01.2017 - 06.2017
- Implementing HIV Prevention community programs in Harry Gwala, uMgungundlovu and eThekwini districts
- Liaise with different community and department's structures to ensure program implementation is community focused and adheres with quality standards
- Sub granting community-based organizations for health and behavior change intervention programs
- Supervising and supporting 3 districts to reach program targets
- Provide capacity to all staff working under prevention program
- Preparation and presentation of reports regarding performance and progress of program to senior management and funders (statistical as well as narrative reports)
- Program petty cash requests and reconciliation (Proper use according to finance guidelines)
- Ensure program equipment and resource procurement is done timely
- Represent organization in key meetings
- Basic HR experience: Participate in staff and community organizations recruitment for program implementation
- Coordinate Capacity building for testing team on HIV Policies, procedures and quality assurance
- Continuous HR strengthening of prevention program team and Community Based Organizations.
PREVENTION PROGRAMS MANAGER
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AHF SA
08.2008 - 12.2016
- Strategic Project planning, budgeting (including budget modification) and program implementation
- Initiation of new community projects relating to HIV prevention, including HIV education and testing and mass condom distribution
- Logistics of condom distribution, delivery to sites, outlets, clinics, community organization sites, ward offices, taverns and spaza shops within community
- Condoms distributed = +_4 500 000 per annum
- Leading HIV awareness campaigns and testing activities for AHF SA - IThembalabantu Clinic
- Community mobilization on key advocacy issues, leading KEEP THE PROMISE event with up to 12 500 people attending
- Work with PR company to ensure publicity of events and company key activities
- Work with advertising companies, i.e
- Outdoor, PRIMEDIA, to advertise our health messages and campaigns on their strategic billboards in Durban and Eastern Cape
- Supervised and implemented a linkage to care programme research study lead by Professor I.V
- Basset, which was published in PubMed
- Work with local high schools and tertiary institutions to ensure that their learners receive prevention packages including HTS services, education campaigns and referral to VMMC
- Facilitating community-oriented programs whilst supporting Eastern Cape Middle drift testing team
- Liaise and worked closely with relevant stakeholders within community of eThekwini to strengthen capacity in fighting HIV AIDS scourge in communities, e.g
- Local leaderships/ ward-based programmes - OSS (WBOTS), churches, schools and youth programmes
- Preparation and presentation of reports regarding performance and progress, statistical as well as narrative reports
- Work with Finance team in procurement process, bid analysis and processing of invoices/ payments
- Liaise with contracted suppliers on customs related issues, especially when organization is receiving stock from abroad as well as from organization's head office (US) - Exports and imports of condoms and HIV testing kits
- Represent organization as delegate, attend Seminars, Conferences (local and international), DOH meetings and other Stakeholder meetings
- Basic HR experience: Assist in Staff recruitment (Counsellors, Staff nurses and Admin staff)
- Supervision of prevention team in clinics and community outreach, A total of 60 staff members supervised
- Conducted ongoing mentorship for testing team, supporting their Individual Development Plan (Quarterly appraisals and performance management)
- Support psychosocial counsellors ensuring linkage to care, pt viral suppression, retention into care and referral to other services
- Initiation of volunteer program to support program implementation whilst assisting individuals with workplace skills readiness
- Strengthening of prevention program team and community-based organizations staff implementing community outreach activities
- Assisted in baseline assessments of community organization's using assessment tools, identified gaps, planned capacity building program and monitored growth and progress
- Developed and implemented mentorship plan for CBOs to support them during their implementation phase
- Program monitoring of monthly performance and progress to ensure deliverables are met
- Capacitated CBOs on financial management especially in areas of drafting of policies and procedures, budgeting, petty cash handling, staff stipend payments, reconciliations, requisition processes and funding proposals
- Assisting CBOs with community mapping to identify high transmission areas (hotspots) for programme implementation
- Supported planning and implementation of health campaigns, in line with DOH health calendar
- Home testing management and mobilization of necessary resources
- CBOs condom distribution plan, schedule of delivery
- Developed stock control registers to manage and monitor utilization of program resources i.e
- Testing consumables, condoms, etc
- Trained CBOs on report writing, capturing of minutes of meetings and filing systems
- Participated in community meetings to strengthen holistic service delivery at community level e.g
- Operation Sukuma Sakhe - OSS, District AIDS Council – DAC, etc
- Supported daily operations of program including child disclosure on HIV status, partner disclosure, client counselling and couple counselling intervention
- Formulated networks with other organizations for programme development, training and sensitization of staff on key elements of key populations.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Child and Youth Development
Durban University of Technology
Durban, KZNHigh School Diploma - undefined
Roseville Secondary
Skills
Assignment management
Supervisory and program management experience
Report preparation (narrative and statistical)
Quality assurance and improvement
Participate in health research
Performance management
Public outreach and publicity of health programs
Reasoning ability and Creative problem solving
Stakeholder engagement and creative problem solving
Management of medium to large program staffing
Accomplishments
- Computer skills
- Demand creation for key campaigns
- Mentorship and youth development
- Train the trainer on HIV and AIDS
- HIV and AIDS counselling
- Behavior Management
- Pediatric and adolescent counselling and care including support group facilitation
- Master trainer for WBPHCOT’s
- Master trainer on clinic committee governance and administration
- Best implementer for COP21 OVC FS Program
References
- Ms. Surina Enslin, OVC Area Manager CDS FHI360, 082 213 2320/ 012 762 4000, surina.barnardt@gmail.com
- Mr. Moeti Lesuthu, Prevention Programs Manager, 072 789 1604/ 031 277 2700, Moeti@aids.org.za
- Dr S.B. Mhlongo, Medical Director (AHF), 082 542 8855, Sigwili@msn.com
Timeline
Technical Lead OVC
MatCH Institute (ASHTEC EC)
12.2023
Snr PREVENTION PROGRAMS OVC and IES COORDINATOR
AIDS Foundation of South Africa (AFSA)
10.2020 - 10.2023
MASTER TRAINER
MatCH
04.2019 - 09.2020
DEMAND CREATION OFFICER
INSIMU MEDICAL GROUP, IMG
08.2018 - 03.2019
PSYCHOSOCIAL TECHNICAL ADVISOR
Zoe-life ZL, MST
07.2017 - 07.2018
PREVENTION PROGRAMS COORDINATOR
AIDS Foundation of SA (AFSA)
01.2017 - 06.2017
PREVENTION PROGRAMS MANAGER
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AHF SA
08.2008 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Child and Youth Development
Durban University of Technology
High School Diploma - undefined
Roseville Secondary
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