Job Title: Laboratory Services Improvement Specialist
Employer: Health Strat
Location: Nairobi
JOB PURPOSE: The Laboratory Services Improvement Specialist will work with the Nairobi County Health Management Team to ensure that high quality laboratory services are reliably accessible throughout Nairobi County. This is to be achieved through identifying and problem-solving around barriers to quality laboratory services (including laboratory networking, commodity management, and laboratory information management systems), leading progressive laboratory improvements to meet accreditation standards, and supporting a capacity-building agenda for laboratory services.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops and implements a capacity-building and systems-strengthening plan for laboratory services in close collaboration with key partners
- Institutionalizes continuous quality improvement systems for laboratory services
- Examines laboratory operations and systems and leads the development of strategies to address findings
- Ensures implementation of recommended quality control and quality assurance systems
- Supports healthcare facilities to effectively manage their commodities, with optimal utilization of the national supply chain mechanism
- Ensures appropriate laboratory investigations are available through onsite capacity or an effective networking system, including (but not limited to) CD4, viral load testing, and GeneXpert
- Leads stepwise accreditation for laboratories appropriate to their service level
- Leads the implementation of training and continuous professional development systems for lab staff and CHMT members
- Supports laboratory staff through mentorship and troubleshooting
- Evaluates outcomes of capacity-building activities and shares recommendations
- Represents the organization with the KMLTTB and in a laboratory technical capacity at various meetings
- Writes laboratory services activity reports
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS:
Academic Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Medical Laboratory Technology/Science Or Higher National Diploma in Medical Laboratory Science and 5 years’ experience in a busy clinical laboratory
- Professional Qualifications:
- Registration with the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board
- Experience:
- 3years’ experience of bench work in a laboratory providing HIV-related monitoring and investigations , 1 years’ experience at supervisory level
- Experience developing laboratory networking systems (added advantage)
- Experience with laboratory accreditation processes (added advantage)
Skills:
- Demonstrable expertize in HIV- and TB-related investigations
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Innovative with a high degree of initiative
- Organizational skills
Please forward a cover letter detailing your suitability, current Curriculum Vitae, contact information for three referees (name, email address, and telephone number), present as well as expected remuneration, benefits. State the job title that you are applying for on the subject of the cover email, to info@healthstrat.co.ke by (Monday July 21, 2014) 5.00pm. Incomplete applications and applications received after 5.00pm on the closing date shall not be considered. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 7 days from the closing date.