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Job Title:       Quality Improvement Advisor

Organization:
Baylor-Uganda

Duty Station:
Uganda

About US:

Baylor-Uganda is a
private not for profit child health and development organization providing
family-centered pediatric HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services,
health professional training, and clinical research in Uganda. Baylor College
of Medicine Children’s Foundation -Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is an indigenous
not-for-profit child health and development organisation affiliated to the
Baylor College of Medicine International Paediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI), a
Network of paediatric HIV/AIDS care and treatment Children’s Clinical Centres
of Excellence and international program offices in 11 countries across Africa
and Eastern Europe.

Job Summary:  The Quality Improvement Advisor will work with
the national, regional and district QI coordination structures to ensure skills
development for the application of QI tools among health facility teams.  Supports health facility teams to achieve and
sustain MoH quality of care standards through the adoption of standard
operating procedures (SOPs), and maintains an updated Baylor-Uganda SOP Manual.
Working with the Baylor-Uganda M&E team supports district and health
facility teams to routinely review their data, understand their performance,
identify gaps in performance and quality of care, analyse the gaps for root
causes, and bridge them through implementation of QI projects. Supports HFs to
initiate and monitor the projects to completion, document and share lessons
learnt for scale up.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

·       
Maintain
an updated Baylor-Uganda Quality Management Plan (QMP) aligned to the National
Health Sector QI Framework and Strategic Plan.

·       
Develop
and implement periodic QI work plans to address priority quality gaps and
provide a strategy for regional level scale up.

·       
Evaluate
and modify QI strategies in line with the Baylor-Uganda activity work plan.

·       
Build
the capacity of the regional and district QI teams to use the QI approach to
improve the quality of care.

·       
Coordinate
and liaise with the QI structures to implement QI interventions for the MoH
priority areas.

·       
Develop
and test tools and guidelines for QI activities and support their roll out
through the health structures.

·       
Facilitate
peer learning sessions and exchange visits, synthesize and document emerging
changes.

·       
Document
best practices in form of case studies, success stories, abstracts, video clips
in addition to the routine monthly updates, quarterly and annual reports.

·       
Guide
and facilitate quality data collection to capture process and outcome
indicators.

·       
Collect,
review and manage QI data from health facility and community teams, and
maintain updated QI databases including the national QI database.

·       
Perform
any other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       
The
applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree or it’s equivalent in Medicine,
Nursing, Public health, or related field.

·       
Master’s
degree in Public Health.

·       
Registered
with the requisite professional council(s).

·       
A
minimum of four years of related quality improvement experience

·       
You must
have at least a credit 6 in MATHEMATICS and ENGLISH at Ordinary Level (UCE).

How to Apply:

Applications should
include a cover letter, CV, daytime telephone contact, three traceable
professional references and certified UNEB certificates as well as certified
University Transcripts. To Apply, click the link below.

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Deadline: 31^st July 2020

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