Quality Improvement Coordinator Job at Infectious Diseases Institute

Infectious Diseases Institute

Quality Improvement Coordinator Job Post

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2023 - 2024

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: January 16 2024

Hiring Organization: Infectious Diseases Institute

Job Details:

General Summary
The Quality Improvement Coordinator will lead and provide technical assistance to LPHS-TB Activity and MoH-NTLD in the area of TB and TB/HIV clinical and laboratory quality improvement and assurance. S/he will support activities which evaluate and document quality improvement and compliance with local and international standards of services. The position guides implementation of comprehensive capacity building initiatives to address identified gaps in the overall TB, TB/HIV and DR-TB service care continuum at community and facility levels.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead development and implementation of quality improvement and assurance plans at all levels supported by LPHS-TB Activity
• Work collaboratively with the project team, NTLP and other stakeholders to continuously document and improve implementation of quality improvement and assurance processes for people affected by TB and in line with MOH standards.
• Assist in conducting capacity building and technical assistance initiatives for quality improvement and assurance. S/he will coordinate trainings and onsite mentorships on quality improvement assurance.
• Identify primary service delivery indicators and outcome measures to evaluate effectiveness of applied standards.
• In collaboration with National TB/Leprosy and AIDS Control Divisions, review quality improvement findings, and formulate recommendations to improve the quality of local standards of TB and TB/HIV care including DR-TB.
• Collaborate with the SCAPP department of the Ministry of Health to ensure that TB is institutionalized in the national QI framework and interventions.
• Collaborate with USG above-site mechanisms that lead of institutionalization of QI initiatives at regional level to ensure that TB is fully integrated in the regional QI structures..
• Mentor technical project teams and district health teams to integrate quality improvement and assurance within the health care services for TB affected communities both at community and facility levels within Kampala, Mukono and Wakiso.
• Coordinate identification of performance and service delivery gaps for prioritization in the quality improvement plans
• Lead on documentation of best practices, dissemination and design of change packages for scale up nationally.
• Produce periodic reports as per the organizational, government and donor requirements.
• Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Person Specification
• Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery, Nursing or Public Health with Postgraduate training in Public health.
• Project planning and management will be an added advantage
• A minimum of 7 years’ recent experience in designing, implementing and documenting quality improvement initiatives
• Experience in implementing USG-funded projects will be an added advantage
• Recent experience working with TB and HIV program is an added advantage