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Kiboga, Uganda
Full-time
About the Organisation
Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation-Uganda (Baylor – Uganda) is a child health, not – for – profit NGO committed to delivering high quality, high impact and highly ethical paediatrics and family HIV&AIDS prevention, care and treatment services, health professional training and clinical research in Uganda. It is affiliated to Baylor College of Medicine International Paediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) based at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas, USA. It emerged from a technical capacity building support and partnership between BIPAI, Mulago Hospital Paediatric Infectious Diseases clinic (PIDC) and Makerere University Department of Paediatrics and Child health in August 2003. PIDC existed since 1988 as a Mulago hospital clinic offering Paediatric HIV&AIDS services. In November 2004, PIDC was officially initiated into the BIPAI network at their annual networking meeting in Gaborone, Botswana. In 2005, BIPAI signed memoranda of understanding with Ministry of Health, Mulago Hospital and Makerere University Department of Paediatrics and child health to support the expansion of paediatric and adolescent HIV services in Uganda. It was then that Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Uganda (Baylor – Uganda) was formed and registered as a Non-Government Organization.
Job Title
VMMC/IPC QA officers job at Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation
Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation
Job Description
While working within the confines of the district structures, the VMMC Quality Assurance Officer will be the Technical leader of VMMC teams in the supported districts.
He /She will ensure compliance to VMMC quality; standards; monitor VMMC data recording and reporting; Supervise VMMC service delivery and support VMMC supplies and equipment management and support IPC activities.
Duties and Responsibilities
Ensure documentation of all surgical and follow-up procedure.
Ensure that circumcisions are carried out safely in accordance with agreed policies.
Establish and implement a system to ensure technical quality of VMMC project activities.
Provide technical guidance on management of AEs including documentation and reporting.
Provide mentoring and capacity building to facility and cluster staff in specific areas of expertise in VMMC and quality assurance.
Support the formulation of innovative approaches for scale up of targeted in VMMC services.
Work with health care providers, local authorities, community members and project team members to identify clinical service delivery issues that impede access to care and uptake of VMMC services.
Identify and implement appropriate facility-and community-based strategies to address VMMC service delivery gaps.
Identify training needs for clinical and community healthcare providers and assist in the design and implementation of measures to address those needs.
Work with M&E staff to design, implement a plan to track data/results related to VMMC to inform adjustments in project implementation.
Document lessons learned and challenges in implementation as well as reports of VMMC project activities and results to the project and donor, including routine quarterly and annual reports and other reporting requirements as requested.
Document and maintain an inventory of successful tools and approaches for VMMC including QI projects.
Support cluster IPC activities including timely reporting in MOH tools.
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Qualifications and Competencies
Diploma in Clinical Medicine and Community Health or equivalent.
Must be registered with the Allied Health professionals’ Council with a valid (2024) APL.
At least 3 years’ experience in providing VMMC services.
3 Years Relevant Experience
How to Apply
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