Recruiter: King's Sierra Leone Partnership
Location: Sierra Leone
Closing date: 24 May 2016
The King’s Sierra Leone Partnership (KSLP) is a long-term capacity building partnership between King’s Heath Partners in London and key partner institutions in Sierra Leone. KSLP aims to help strengthen Sierra Leone’s health system by improving training, clinical services, policy and research. Key partners include the College of Medicine & Allied Health Sciences, Connaught Government Hospital (the main adult teaching and referral hospital) and the Ministry of Health & Sanitation.
Since January 2013, King’s has had a small in-country team of volunteers, who are supported by senior experts from the UK. The in-country team includes a Country Director and a group of key leads from a range of disciplines such as education, infectious diseases, pharmacy and nursing.
The King’s Sierra Leone Partnership programme of King’s Health Partners is at an exciting time in its existence, emerging from its work responding to the Ebola outbreak. Following the Ebola response, the international community is taking significant steps to strengthen infection control and patient safety across the region. King’s is part of this effort and will be supporting 3 hospitals in western Freetown to achieve this goal. The project support will manifest in four primary ways:
Closing date: 24 May 2016
The King’s Sierra Leone Partnership (KSLP) is a long-term capacity building partnership between King’s Heath Partners in London and key partner institutions in Sierra Leone. KSLP aims to help strengthen Sierra Leone’s health system by improving training, clinical services, policy and research. Key partners include the College of Medicine & Allied Health Sciences, Connaught Government Hospital (the main adult teaching and referral hospital) and the Ministry of Health & Sanitation.
Since January 2013, King’s has had a small in-country team of volunteers, who are supported by senior experts from the UK. The in-country team includes a Country Director and a group of key leads from a range of disciplines such as education, infectious diseases, pharmacy and nursing.
The King’s Sierra Leone Partnership programme of King’s Health Partners is at an exciting time in its existence, emerging from its work responding to the Ebola outbreak. Following the Ebola response, the international community is taking significant steps to strengthen infection control and patient safety across the region. King’s is part of this effort and will be supporting 3 hospitals in western Freetown to achieve this goal. The project support will manifest in four primary ways:
