Simbarashe Gerede
Harare
Summary
A experienced and fully qualified Public Health professional who is efficient, thorough, passionate about delivering the best levels of health care to patients and community at large. Simbarashe possess extensive healthcare experience in a wide range of Health and Nutrition, Medical emergency fields and has the required physical, mental and emotional strength to stand up to the rigors of this demanding profession. He is able to work autonomously and has vast knowledge and experience in community health, HIV/TB and infection control.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Health Officer
Jointed Hands Welfare Organization
03.2024 - Current
- Capacitate communities and staff on public health, reproductive health and other health related issues in order to increase medical uptake and improve the quality of life
- Mobilizing communities and working through government structures to spell out health related issues
- Assisting in conducting baseline surveys and appropriate project research and sharing findings
- Developing and planning activities comprehensively in a participatory manner for respective target groups
- Coordinating activities as per work plan and ensuring that appropriate local facilitators are identified and used
- Assisting in drawing up the project budgets and managing them well
- Working with other officers’ well and sharing program information
- Assisting in monitoring, reviewing and evaluating plans
- Documenting success stories, most significant change stories and best practices
- Developing clear networks and establishing partnerships with line ministries and key stakeholders
- Compiling ALL reports and submitting them to the M & E Coordinator in time (meeting deadlines)
- Assisting in resource mobilization by lifting up the flag upon realizing fundable initiatives
- Attending workshops, reporting and compiling workshop reports
Assistant Study Coordinator
Biomedical Research and Training Institute
04.2019 - 12.2023
- Overseeing research activities related to the project
- Conducting site visits for supervision, training, mentoring and clinical guidance
- Assisting with procurement, stock taking and document management
- Providing logistic and administrative support to the project
- Liaising with other members of the study team, MOHCC and other stakeholders
- Verifying that data collection tools, records, and other study documentation are accurate and up to date, report writing and coordination
ART Nurse Clinician
Population Services International Zimbabwe
10.2018 - 03.2019
- Screening clients for eligibility to get into the PSI ART program according to the MOHCC guidelines and prepare them for ART initiation
- Screening clients for opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis and cryptococcal meningitis and doing baseline investigations before initiating ART
- Initiating and monitoring clients on ART, PEP and PREP according to WHO guidelines
- Doing outreaches for clients for HIV testing and initiation on ART and pre-exposure prophylaxis
- HIV testing according to national guidelines and standard operational procedures
- Monitoring patients for side effects, collections of sample CD4, dried blood spots, viral load, venepuncture
- Offering client pre and post-test counselling sessions according to PSI protocol while ensuring the integration of other services such as family planning, cervical cancer screening, male circumcision and sexually transmitted infections treatment
- Facilitating HIV/AIDS awareness and education in group counselling sessions in both urban and rural areas
OI/ART Nurse Supervisor
Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project
11.2016 - 09.2018
- Offering HIV testing including pre and post-test counselling services to all clients in the community and facility
- Conduct targeted community HIV testing at identified sites in close collaboration with existing community-based health workers
- Identify index cases and offer Provider Initiated Testing and Counselling to family members
- Liaise with health promoters and HCC members to identify high risk groups that need targeted community testing
- Facilitate community Health days and Men’s Health days for joint community HIV testing with in Gweru
- Refer HIV positive clients to the CRF/Sister-in-Charge at the local clinic for ART initiation
- Ensure HIV positive clients referred from the community are initiated on ART at local clinics according to MOHCC guidelines
- Facilitate psychological and sociological support for families and care givers of those on ART
Provincial HIV Mentor of Mentors
University of Zimbabwe and San Francisco Research Programme
10.2015 - 10.2016
- Responsible for the coordination of all HIV/TB clinical mentorship activities in the province ensuring that objectives are met
- Identified training gaps in health care workers i.e
- Nurses counsellors, data encoders in all the eight districts pertaining to HIV care and treatment and providing on the job training and workshops
- Worked closely with the provincial health executive, district health executive in the provision of all clinical mentoring activities in the province
- Monitoring and evaluation of the clinical mentorship program including report writing on weekly and monthly basis
- Data collation, collection, verification on a monthly basis from different sites and report writing
- Ensuring the clinical mentoring program runs smoothly in collaboration with provincial executive, stakeholders and partners
- Attending provincial, district health executive meetings representing the organization at the various levels
- Coordinated and facilitated community, health and HTS facility linkages of health services
- Participated in the development of resource materials in line with health issues in clinical care and treatment of HIV/TB
Isolation Nurse Supervisor
International Rescue Committee, Sierra Leone
09.2014 - 07.2015
- Ensuring provision of appropriate quality medical care to patients suspected or confirmed to have Ebola ensuring strict infection control according to international guidelines
- Supervision of national staff to provide patient care that is rehydration, doing physical round, monitoring intake and output, bed paths, nutritional support and giving of drugs
- Maintaining shifts and work schedules for national and international staff ensuring adequate coverage at all times
- Ensuring that infection control and management procedures are followed at all times in a consistent manner
- Maintaining inventory of supplies and anticipate timing of replenishment
- Evaluation and performance maintenance of national staff including doing interviews for local staff hire
- Training in infection practices to national staff according to the international guidelines making sure they are in good health at all times
- Planned, organised, documented and evaluated the nursing care of patients in the Ebola treatment centre
- Participated in internal or external meetings to ensure continuity and quality of care to patients
- Ensuring proper triage of patients and doing laboratory test for confirmation of diagnosis of Ebola
- Collection of samples i.e
- Blood, swabs urine for investigations of Ebola virus
Nurse Team Leader
Medecins Sans Frontieres – Belgium – Murambinda Project
05.2007 - 09.2013
- Providing quality care to clients HIV/AIDS including TB
- Staging patients according to WHO protocol
- Treatment of opportunistic infections
- Initiating clients on antiretroviral drugs
- HIV testing according to national guidelines and standard operational procedures
- Monitoring patients for side effects, collections of sample CD4, dried blood spots, viral load, venepuncture
- Monitoring clients for treatments for failure, referring patients accordingly
- Overall management of the team to optimize quality care and rational use of resources
- Screening of patients for tuberculosis and referring them accordingly
- Coordinating pharmacy, laboratory, PMTCT, activities
- Collection and analysing medical data and report writing
- Supervising and delegation of duties to nurses, nurse aides and dispensary assistants
- Collection of samples blood including DBS, whole blood, venepuncture
Registered General Nurse
Ministry of Health and Child Care
09.2004 - 04.2007
- Responsible for being the main point of contact for patients, and contribution to the
- Caring for patients who are suffering from acute and long term illness and diseases
- Administration of medicines and injections to patients
- Treating of patients with respect and dignity and giving attention to individual needs and wishes
- Maintaining high clinical standards and high level of quality healthcare delivery
- Teaching and supervising training student nurses
- Working in community outreach programs
- Providing information, emotional support and reassurance to clients, patients and relatives
Education
Advanced Diploma - Public Health
James Lind Institute
01.2017
Diploma - General Nursing
Chinhoyi School Of Nursing
01.2004
Skills
- Nutrition assessment
- Disease prevention strategies
- Workplace safety
- Mental health awareness
Certification
- 2011 - MSF - Drug Resistant TB Management
- 2005 - Ministry of Health and Child Care Zimbabwe - Advanced HIV Management
- 2006 - PSI – Zimbabwe - Provider Initiated Counselling and Testing
- 2010 - MSF – Belgium - Emergency Preparedness
- 2010 - MSF – Belgium - Team Management
- 2012 - Ministry of Health - Rapid HIV Testing
References
- Edson, Chidovi, edchidovi@gmail.com, +263772424822
- Kuitakwashe, Nhongo, kuitanhongo@gmail.com, +263773528691
- Nyasha, Dzawakwa, Nyasha.Dzawakwa@lshtm.ac.uk, +263773659363
Professional attributes and competencies
- Strong team work and networking skills for a common vision.
- High clinical acumen in managing clients of different ages and from different backgrounds.
- Professional approach to all client requirements whilst positively complementing the organisation.
- People management and ensuring participative engagement of subordinates, mentoring, and coaching.
- Consistent, clear, inclusive and fact based communication style.
- Exhibiting adaptability; efficiency; loyalty; honesty; discipline; and dedication.
Timeline
Health Officer
Jointed Hands Welfare Organization
03.2024 - Current
Assistant Study Coordinator
Biomedical Research and Training Institute
04.2019 - 12.2023
ART Nurse Clinician
Population Services International Zimbabwe
10.2018 - 03.2019
OI/ART Nurse Supervisor
Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project
11.2016 - 09.2018
Provincial HIV Mentor of Mentors
University of Zimbabwe and San Francisco Research Programme
10.2015 - 10.2016
Isolation Nurse Supervisor
International Rescue Committee, Sierra Leone
09.2014 - 07.2015
Nurse Team Leader
Medecins Sans Frontieres – Belgium – Murambinda Project
05.2007 - 09.2013
Registered General Nurse
Ministry of Health and Child Care
09.2004 - 04.2007
Advanced Diploma - Public Health
James Lind Institute
Diploma - General Nursing
Chinhoyi School Of Nursing
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