Continuous Quality Improvement Associate at Caritas Nigeria

Caritas Nigeria was established in September 2010 by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), as a specialized national development agency with a mandate for overall coordination of development programs for the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Although independently registered, Caritas Nigeria is an arm of the Church and Society Department of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN). Caritas Nigeria also provided care, treatment and support to over 39,921 patients in ten service delivery health facilities under the CHARIS program which was supported by the United States of America through the Centre for Disease Control and prevention (CDC).

CN invites applications for her "SUSTAIN Project" in the position below:

Job Title: Continuous Quality Improvement Associate

Job Code: 00042015
Location: Makurdi
Job Type: Full Time
Department: Sustain Project
Category: Health Care

Job Descriptions

• Provide capacity building and mentoring to supported health facilities to form continuous quality improvement teams and initiatives, through routine technical assistance.
• Assist supported facilities in developing continuous quality improvement projects and implementing the small test of change (STOC) through performance measures of quality of care indicators.
• Support an ongoing documentation systems that demonstrates progress towards quality improvement in ART delivery by target sites.
• Implement and support the ongoing quality of care process targeted at data collected from GON registers by sites and improvement initiatives.
• Provide sites with training on site level Continuous Quality Improvement and how to use patient and program data to inform and improve care and treatment services and develop Regional Quality Committees to foster site to site sharing of findings and successful improvement strategies
• Conduct annual patient level outcome activities (blood collection for viral load, adherence survey and Chart reviews).
• Provide trainings to CCFN Clinical staff on all continuous quality improvement initiatives, program and patient level evaluation.
• Coordinate all evaluation activities across facilities: Biannual comprehensive clinical assessment of sites, program area reviews and evaluation of specific issues such as mortality and lost to follow up.
• Coordinate Patient Level Outcomes activities across selected facilities

Other Duties

• Develop and routinely update all quality improvement processes, standard operating procedures and documents.
• Review and validation of the quality improvement segments and other aspects of protocols for other units within the organization.

Preferred Skills

• Degree in Medicine, Nursing, or other related field with over four years’ experience in HIV care and treatment in similar positions or as CQI Focal Officer.
• Knowledge of operations research is an added advantage
• Strong organizational, time management, computer and communicative skills
• Team building skills to strengthen and cultivate relationships.
• Possess strategic and analytical skills with an ability to solve problems and make decisions.
• Capable of managing multiple tasks and priorities and can work effectively under pressure.

Application Closing Date
Friday, 17th July 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their application and updated Curriculum Vitae, to: [email protected]

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