Quality Improvement Advisor - Parktown at The Aurum Institute

Duties and Work Responsibilities

Provide QI capacity building by:

• Supporting the development or adaptations of quality improvement (QI) learning materials
• Providing training, mentoring, coaching and supportive supervision of QI officers, district TB program coordinators, facility TB focal persons and data capturers as applicable
• Develop and implement a QI roadmap for national TB program at the district level including designing TB district and subdistrict QI strategies
• Oversee high-level coordination and manage relationships with stakeholders involved in district TB QI projects

Support learning and collaborative activities that include:

• Facilitating QI mentoring of QI Officers and their subdistrict clusters.
• Provide joint QI on-site or virtual technical support to and with the QI Officers
• Support TB care cascade baseline assessment to determine gaps at facility level i.e., primary health care (PHC) and hospital level
• Support development of QI process measures and analytics of such data for learning
• Conduct spot-checks on QI Officers to monitor QI capability building of subdistrict clusters
• Provide collaborative QI monthly and quarterly reports to support required program reporting
• Support the documentation of best interventions for spread and scale up across the district.
• Support districts, subdistricts, and facilities with the necessary tools to track QI activities including i.e. QI how- to-guide, data guide, QI tools, etc.
• Actively participate in meetings as applicable
• Attend monthly district and subdistrict learning meetings to share learnings.
• Support districts with preparations of TB program performance review meetings
• Attend relevant internal and external technical meetings as required

Requirements

Qualifications

• An appropriate 3-year national diploma/degree in Health Sciences or Social Sciences
• Postgraduate qualifications in QI would be an added advantage

 Experience

• At least 5 years’ experience in training or facilitation
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in health programme management
• Clinical experience in the management of TB and HIV co-infected patients
• Proven experience in QI implementation
• Administrative and management skills
• Experience in stakeholder management
• Valid driver’s license