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:
Implementing a training programme for all health workers in IPC across the hospital at each site with the support of two Nurse Mentors
Nurse Mentors supporting a local nurse to act as the focal person for training and patient safety committee planning at each site
Focusing on improved nursing practice incorporating IPC through in-service training and support for senior nursing leadership
Supporting nursing leadership nationally in developing standards for nursing practice. KSLP is looking to recruit a new Nursing Coordinator for its in-country team to start as soon as possible.
The initial Infection Prevention and Control project will initially last until end of December 2016 but is planned to become an evolving, long-term programme.
Key responsibilities and objectives of the job include:
Overseeing project implementation, including responsibility for the project budget, record keeping, and creation of project plans and timelines working with the Operations Manager, Grants Manager and UK based finance team
Maintaining project related communications, including by maintaining flow of information from project staff to the Clinical Manager, serving as key point of contact for management/external bodies about the project
Liaising with the Nursing Technical Advisory Committee at King’s Health Partners, donors, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, and other NGOs participating in the national IPC programme and nursing projects more widely
Reporting - undertaking monitoring and evaluation of this project; ensuring that appropriate data is collated and submitted to demonstrate achievement of the project aims
Working with senior nursing staff and the MOHS to develop, implement, and monitor nursing policies and protocols to improve delivery of care
Providing in-service training based on policies and other priority areas identified by our partners
Monitoring the implementation process and addressing issues as they arise in the clinical setting
Providing support to senior nursing management in Connaught
Working with the rest of the KSLP team to contribute to service wide quality improvement initiatives
Contributing to developing in country research capacity and supporting evaluation of our approach
Maintaining effective communication with other project coordinators on the KSLP team to ensure sharing of mutual resources and identifying possibilities for engagement and synergy when possible.
We are looking for candidates with the following background:
A Bachelor’s nursing degree or equivalent; applications from those with a graduate degree in public health or other relevant subject would be particularly welcomed
Understanding of Infection Prevention and Control and/or WASH principles
Knowledge of project management principles, including planning and budgeting
Experience working on clinical or hospital based projects in sub-Saharan Africa
Experience leading a team on dedicated projects
Specific experience with IPC or WASH programmes
Experience mentoring national staff in sub-Saharan Africa
Experience with supply systems, overseeing workshops and training programmes.
Extensive general nursing experience with management, policy development and education experience an advantage
Excellent interpersonal and intercultural skills and sensitivity
Skill liaising with local staff with a variety of expertise and experience
Approach to improvement that incorporates sustainable systems improvement, synergy and capacity building
Skilled at leading and designing autonomous projects; multitasking and prioritising to complete those projects.
Organized and logical, excellent record keeping, problem solving skills
Managing difficult scenarios and navigating complex interpersonal situations, identifying potential problems, confidence and experience to anticipate issues and strategize to address them.
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:
Implementing a training programme for all health workers in IPC across the hospital at each site with the support of two Nurse Mentors
Nurse Mentors supporting a local nurse to act as the focal person for training and patient safety committee planning at each site
Focusing on improved nursing practice incorporating IPC through in-service training and support for senior nursing leadership
Supporting nursing leadership nationally in developing standards for nursing practice. KSLP is looking to recruit a new Nursing Coordinator for its in-country team to start as soon as possible.
The initial Infection Prevention and Control project will initially last until end of December 2016 but is planned to become an evolving, long-term programme.
Key responsibilities and objectives of the job include:
Overseeing project implementation, including responsibility for the project budget, record keeping, and creation of project plans and timelines working with the Operations Manager, Grants Manager and UK based finance team
Maintaining project related communications, including by maintaining flow of information from project staff to the Clinical Manager, serving as key point of contact for management/external bodies about the project
Liaising with the Nursing Technical Advisory Committee at King’s Health Partners, donors, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, and other NGOs participating in the national IPC programme and nursing projects more widely
Reporting - undertaking monitoring and evaluation of this project; ensuring that appropriate data is collated and submitted to demonstrate achievement of the project aims
Working with senior nursing staff and the MOHS to develop, implement, and monitor nursing policies and protocols to improve delivery of care
Providing in-service training based on policies and other priority areas identified by our partners
Monitoring the implementation process and addressing issues as they arise in the clinical setting
Providing support to senior nursing management in Connaught
Working with the rest of the KSLP team to contribute to service wide quality improvement initiatives
Contributing to developing in country research capacity and supporting evaluation of our approach
Maintaining effective communication with other project coordinators on the KSLP team to ensure sharing of mutual resources and identifying possibilities for engagement and synergy when possible.
We are looking for candidates with the following background:
A Bachelor’s nursing degree or equivalent; applications from those with a graduate degree in public health or other relevant subject would be particularly welcomed
Understanding of Infection Prevention and Control and/or WASH principles
Knowledge of project management principles, including planning and budgeting
Experience working on clinical or hospital based projects in sub-Saharan Africa
Experience leading a team on dedicated projects
Specific experience with IPC or WASH programmes
Experience mentoring national staff in sub-Saharan Africa
Experience with supply systems, overseeing workshops and training programmes.
Extensive general nursing experience with management, policy development and education experience an advantage
Excellent interpersonal and intercultural skills and sensitivity
Skill liaising with local staff with a variety of expertise and experience
Approach to improvement that incorporates sustainable systems improvement, synergy and capacity building
Skilled at leading and designing autonomous projects; multitasking and prioritising to complete those projects.
Organized and logical, excellent record keeping, problem solving skills
Managing difficult scenarios and navigating complex interpersonal situations, identifying potential problems, confidence and experience to anticipate issues and strategize to address them.
HOW TO APPLY:
Submit a professional CV (4 pages maximum) and cover letter (2 pages maximum) to Ms. Molly Hrudka atrecruitment@kslp.org.uk by 24 May 2016
