Saturday, 13 April 2013

Marie Stopes Kenya Job Opportunities

Purpose:
Working with the Senior Adviser the Medical Development Team, the Health Markets Team, MSI’s international  partners and related technical colleagues, the post holder will be responsible for leading Quality Assurance within the Social Franchise programme  ensuring that it is closely aligned to the Quality Assurance Framework of the organisation. 

A key part of this role will be working with the Health Markets Team to implement the African
Health Markets for Equity (AHME) project within Social Franchising over the project life of 5 years.

Job Title: Medical Adviser – Social Franchise
Location: East Africa
Accountable to:
    Director within MDT
    Reporting to AHME project management team for  aspects of the project

Probationary Period: 6 months

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a marketing focused, results oriented social enterprise. We develop efficient, effective and sustainable family planning programmes in the UK and overseas.

The UK division provides services to men and women over 130,000 times a year.

The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: THE PREVENTION OF UNWANTED BIRTHS and its mission of ensuring the individuals right to: CHILDREN BY CHOICE NOT CHANCE

It is a role requirement that the job holder must fully comply with, promote and live MSI CORE VALUES:
    mission driven  
    customer focused  
    results orientated  
    pioneering  
    sustainable  
    people centered

Key Responsibilities
Quality Assurance

    Develop and implement a 5 year strategy for quality assurance within social franchise ensuing alignment with the MSI Quality Assurance Framework and adherence to AHME project requirements
    Lead the development, review,  update and implementation of the MSI clinical standards in SRH and integrated disease services for social Franchise, ensuring they are aligned with WHO, MSI and national guidelines
    Lead the development, review,  update and implementation of the MSI process for monitoring quality in SRH and integrated disease services for social Franchise, ensuring alignment with national systems and adherence to AHME project requirements
    Develop a system for monitoring major and minor complications in SF and forming and following up of action plans where required
    Co-ordinate the programme for monitoring of social franchise programmes across the partnership
    Provide ongoing support and up to date information in regards to safe abortion, SRH and integrated services as required to MSI regional and   franchise  offices
    Participate the annual strategy development and business planning for the Medical Development and Social Franchise teams
    Contribute to the annual quality assurance reports for SF and MDT

Measure
    Strategy developed and agreed with head of MDT and project manager AHME and aligned with MSI QAF
    Quality scores for SF participating in AHME
    Strategy developed and agreed with head of MDT and project manager AHME and aligned with MSI QAF
    Strategy developed and agreed with head of MDT and project manager AHME and aligned with MSI QAF
    Procedure for establishing measures of assessments with roll out date agreed with head of MDT and SF
    Quality scores for SF participating in AHME
    As per MDT incident reporting policy
    Regular reporting to MDT and SF teams
    Modify and produce training materials where required
    Contribution to annual report

Training and Capacity Building

    Responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of technical assistance, training and support throughout the Social Franchise Partnership.
    Work closely with third party service providers and partners to ensure alignment with training materials and processes.
    Have oversight of training programme provided by third party service providers ensuring they meet MSI standards

Measure

    By quality scores for participating SF
African Health Markets Equity (AHME)
    Work in partnership with the Health Markets Team to support the scale up of provider networks and scope of services through social franchising in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya while ensuring high levels of quality are implemented and maintained.
    Work in partnership with the Health Markets Team to ensure quality within the AHME project is rolled out according to project specification
    Develop quality standards for entry assessment, performance improvement and maintenance of Social Franchisees
    Ensure alignment of MSI, ‘Safecare’ and National standards for quality
    Implement and monitor quality standards according to MSI methodology and in accordance with AHME project requirements
    Report on defined quality matrix to Donors, MDT and other partners as determined by the AHME project manager
    Review Government standards for reporting within Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya and align AHME standard accordingly

Measure

    Determined by project specification years 1-5
    Determined by project specification years 1-5
    Determined by project specification years 1-5

Disease integration

Ensuring the implementation of existing MSI standards and monitoring for the following:
    Post abortion care
Development of non family planning standards and monitoring systems, adhering to National Guidelines in line with project specification proposal as follows;
    Maternal Health (including antenatal care, attended delivery and post natal care) and perinatal conditions
    Cervical cancer screening
    HIV integration
    Tuberculosis
    Malaria
    Diarrheal disease
    Acute Respiratory Infection
    Nutrition
    Iron folate
    Multivitamins

Conferences and seminars
    Participate in organising and presenting at MSI, MDT and Social Franchise conferences and  seminars
    Participate in Donor and other third party conferences and meetings

Skills and Experience
Qualifications:

    Clinical qualification such as a nurse, midwife, doctor
    Further qualification  e.g. MSc in Health/Management or related discipline (desirable)
    Qualification in quality systems (desirable)

Experience:
    A minimum of 5 years working at management level in a healthcare organisation, with decision making roles.
    Recent experience of applying Quality Assurance systems  at a senior level
    Developing and implementing policies and standards across complex organisations
    Development and implementation of monitoring systems across complex organisations.
    Conducting quality auditing and monitoring
    Data analysis and action planning

Skills:

    Excellent communication and influencing skills to work independently and in teams
    Excellent written and spoken English
    Ability to interface at all levels with a commitment to delivering the highest standards of quality in healthcare.
    Decision making abilities
    Ability to analyse and interpret data
    Ability to produce and present reports at Executive and Board level
    Ability to produce and present reports downstream to providers and in country teams
    Strong IT skills in Word, Excel, Power-point
    Interpretation of national and international guidance
    Presentation and training skills

Attitude / Motivation:

    Pro-choice
    Assertive and diplomatic
    Able to be flexible and adaptable in the working environment
    Team player, enjoys working across teams and collaboration
    Self motivated
    Results and outcomes focused

Applications quoting the position title with detailed CVs with contact details of 3 referees (2 of which should be immediate former supervisors) should be submitted to:

People and Development Dept
pd@mariestopes.or.ke
Marie Stopes Kenya
On or before 19th April, 2013

NB: Please clearly indicate on the subject as ‘Medical Adviser- Social Franchise’

Marie Stopes International is an equal opportunity Employer.

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