Clinical Health Officer at International Rescue Committee (IRC)

JOB TITLE: Clinical Health Officer

JOB LOCATION: Yola, Adamawa, Nigeria

JOB DETAILS:

• Ensure quality of clinical and non-clinical service provision in health sites according to MOH, WHO or international standards through communication of standards, assessing and monitoring performance against standards and guiding and motivating staff to meet and maintain standards
• Provide coaching and supportive supervision to MoH staff.
• Organize and oversee training of MoH staff on cholera case management.
• Ensure surveillance tools are put in place and data submitted in a timely manner to inform decision making.
• Monitor quality standards through conducting supervision of clinical services and sites (eg. Clinical practice, client satisfaction, client numbers, provider-client interaction, management of stock, record-keeping, adequate infrastructure, functioning equipment)
• Identify performance gaps and design interventions and develop action plans to manage activities and improve quality of services
• Maintain documentation of relevant information and communicate to decision-makers when necessary
• Maintain infection prevention and control within and around the facilities
• S/he will collect weekly morbidity reports and monitor disease trends in order to preposition adequate supplies as may be required.
• Reviewing clinical incidents including root cause analysis and action plan in collaboration with providers
• Provide timely updates to service providers on clinical guidelines
• Establish and adhere to supervision schedule

Program Development

• Contribute to donors’ reporting whenever necessary.
• Ensuring budgets are used appropriately and efficiently and spending is in line with the IRC financial procedures and donor requirements.
• Ensure data collection, data compilation, timely preparation and submission of all internal reports, weekly reports, work plan including weekly and other associated monthly, quarterly, donor and special reports.

Staff Performance Management, Learning & Development:

• Required for all positions with supervisory responsibility, if special considerations are needed (e.g. remote management), make this additive to the base language here.

Research, Learning and Analysis

• Monitoring health program implementation.
• Monitor diseases outbreak resulting from the impact of flooding and timely actions.
• Monitor closely the morbidity and mortality trends together with all the other health indicators to ensure that prompt actions are taken.
• Provide weekly activity reports.
• Attend meetings concerning overall health program issues in the designated LGA.
• Monitor and promote integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of health program at the community level.

Coordination & Representation

• Attend all relevant meetings in relation to the health program as may be required and feed in the IRC priorities during meetings.
• Ensure IRC represented at the Public Health Emergency Operation Centre and provide update as required.
• Facilitate field visits for internal and external stakeholders, when required.

HOW TO APPLY
To apply for the ongoing International Rescue Committee (IRC) job opening, visit the Application Portal to submit your application!