Job Details
The project is currently in its second year of implementation and is seeking to recruit a dynamic and highly qualified personnel to the position Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Specialist.
This position will be responsible for ensuring the provision of quality comprehensive HIV care and treatment services in CHAK supported health facilities.
The position will be based in the CHAK Head office in Nairobi.
Minimum Qualifications
- Degree in Medicine with a Master’s degree in Public Health or related field
- Valid License by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board
- At least 3 years’ clinical and programmatic experience in HIV programming.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure the provision of quality comprehensive HIV prevention care and treatment services according to national priorities and directions
- Establish and ensure functionality of quality improvement systems within supported health facilities and monitor initiatives to sustain gains/best practices for sustainability
- Build capacity of health care workers to operationalize quality improvement
- Develop quality frameworks and tools for various quality programs in CHAP Uzima in line with the Kenya Quality Model for Health and the Kenya HIV Quality Improvement Framework
- Build an evidence base to guide the design of contextually-informed QI implementation strategies and sustainable practices.
- Develop and review continuous quality improvement (CQI) capacity building materials to empower health care professionals for ownership of health care improvement
- Plan and conduct tests of promising innovations and changes that improve care for patients
- Coordinate the documentation of all quality improvement initiatives and outcomes
- Ensure preparation of workplans and technical reports
- Represent CHAP Uzima in stakeholder meetings at national and county level