Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
• The Clinical Associate will support clinical aspects of the project, this role will involve engaging with facilities to understand clinical work processes relevant to facility automation, providing clinical guidance and support to KeHMIS informatics team responsible for designing and developing solutions used for collecting HIV patients’ data and managing clinical workflows.

Reporting And Supervision
• Reporting to the office of the Deputy Program Director, the Clinical Associate will support clinical aspects of the project, this role will involve engaging with facilities to understand clinical work processes relevant to facility automation, providing clinical guidance and support to KeHMIS informatics team responsible for designing and developing solutions used for collecting HIV patients’ data and managing clinical workflows.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities
• Provide guidance and interpretation of clinical guidelines, procedures, and legislation relevant to the project.
• Leverage KeHMIS centers of excellence and visit them on a schedule to understand user journeys, document facility work-processes supported by KeHMIS applications and recommend how KeHMIS applications can be optimized to support them
• Support the design, organization, and implementation of solutions touching on clinical aspects of the project
• Collaborate with the technical teams and other partners, supporting the design of suitable strategies, based on sound and current clinical evidence.
• Liaising with external partners within the context of clinical information, evidence, and discussion forums.
• Contribute to the development of expert knowledge on quality improvement in clinical settings within the project.
• Support technical teams in defining clinical project parameters and clinical resource requirements and make these recommendations to the project director and project management team.
• Plan, develop and contribute to the evaluation of the effectiveness of clinical outcomes from the EMR/EHR Implementation.
• Identify complex clinical systems and organizational challenges hindering the accomplishment of project goals and objectives and determining procedures to be followed inn implementing appropriate remedial actions.
• Participate in and advise, when necessary, inductions /orientation programs for new staff and training for existing staff on clinical aspects of the project.
• Provide support to the project leadership director in coordinating project activities, interpreting and communicating clinical and program guidance to project teams.

Required Qualifications
• Clinical Officer with experience in clinical health care especially in HIV service delivery, active licensure preferred.
• Experience providing HIV clinical services in a clinical setting is required.
• Experience working in research/surveillance or study setting preferred.
• Knowledge of and familiarity with international HIV treatment initiatives and Kenya’s HIV treatment guidelines.
• Minimum 1 to 3 years’ experience on infectious diseases and HIV and AIDS management, with at least 3 years’ experience working on health care delivery in a resource challenged setting.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work across-culturally with diverse teams.
• Strong writing skills and attention to detail and quality.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent analytical written and oral communication skills.
• High degree of judgment, maturity, ingenuity, and originality to interpret strategy, to analyze, develop and present work and to monitor and evaluate implementation of programs.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

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