IRC recrute un Mentor clinique de district, Kailahun, Sierra Leone

Requête nº: req12312

Intitulé de poste: District Clinical Mentor

Secteur d’activité: Santé

Type de contrat: Régulier

Taux d’occupation: Plein temps

Ouvert aux expatriés: Non

Lieu de travail: Kailahun, Sierra Leone

Descriptif du poste

 

Background Present in Sierra Leone since 1999, IRC supports the Sierra Leonean institutions – government, civil society, community-based organizations and private sector – to provide improved social services, decrease youth unemployment and mitigate gender based violence.  IRC do this through programs and partnerships designed to improve the life of women, youth and children by implementing Health, Education, Youth and Gender Based Violence programming.  IRC has a Country Program office in Freetown, a Regional Field Office in Kenema, Field Offices in Kono, Kailahun and Bo.

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, and Anti-Retaliation.”

Scope Of Work

IRC, along with its Consortium partners has bid for a funding opportunity from DFID – Saving Lives (Phase II) as the lead for the NGO consortium. The Saving Lives programme seeks to support the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) to save women’s and children’s lives by improving the quality, availability and accessibility of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services. This will be achieved by increasing the utilization of quality RMNCAH services through a multifaceted approach that seeks to strengthen quality, expand access, and build the demand for RMNCAH services in Sierra Leone. The programme duration is October 2018 – March 2021.

The IRC is recruiting for District Clinical Mentors (DCMs) for the Saving Lives programme in Sierra Leone based in Kailahun. The DCMs are the most crucial link in the programme, providing direct clinical mentorship to facility and hospital staff in the respective districts. The Saving Lives DCMs will work under the oversight of the District Delivery Senior Manager in the respective districts.

Areas of Responsibilities

  • Provide intensive direct clinical mentorship and on-the-job training to staff at the targeted Community Health Centres (CHCs) through the programme period on (in line with the national policies/guidance):
  1. Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC)
  2. Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI)
  3. Emergency Triage Assessment & Treatment (ETAT)
  4. Values clarification and attitudes transformation (VCAT) for family planning and;
  5. Adolescent Youth Friendly Services (AYFS) 
  • Provide direct clinic mentorship and on-the-job training for hospital staff[1] on (in line with the national policies/guidance):
  1. EmONC
  2. IMNCI
  3. VCAT
  4. AYFS
  • Provide support to troubleshoot for their respective mentees on the mentorship topics
  • Provide feedback loop to the communities about improvement of healthcare workers’ competencies in collaboration with Community Based Mobilisers of the NGO Consortium partner and the Community Health Workers in country
  • Support the DHMT and facility staff on meaningful supportive supervision under the guidance from the District Delivery Senior Manager
  • Carry out regular joint outreach visits (monthly) to Child Health Posts and Maternal Child Health Posts with the CHC-in charge
  • Contribute to the monthly PHU-in charges meetings and feedback perspectives and analysis of health data from facilities
  • Provide inputs/suggestions from field to the District Delivery Senior Manager on potential ideas for use of flexible funding and/or innovation fund available for the district
  • Support and contribute to the baseline assessment for the programme

Key Working Relationships:

External: Ministry of Health and Sanitation, DHMT, District Councils, Community structures

Internal: Senior Health Coordinator, Health Project Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and IRC Field Coordinator/Manager

 

Profil

 

Education (Knowledge):

  • CHOs/Midwifes
  •  Must not be a Government of Sierra Leone Employee

Experience:

  • At least 5 years’ experience of working in a clinical setting
  •  Demonstrated ability to mentor and supervise others
  •  Experience in providing clinical mentorship/trainings in Sierra Leone, including on RMNCAH-related areas is preferred

Skill & Abilities:

Mandatory:

  •  Demonstrated knowledge and/or experience of having worked with district health systems
  •  Excellent English and Krio speaking/writing skills required.

 

 

 

 

 

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