Quality Improvement Officer at Nyagatare District: (Deadline 7 March 2024)

I. Summary of Overall Role and Responsibilities The Quality Improvement Officer is responsible of the formulation, review, and dissemination of hospital standards. II. Key Duties and Tasks  Assist and follow departments in the development and Monitoring the Implementation of Quality Improvement plans  Assure that Departmental have ongoing quality assurance projects  Assure that improvement activities are documented and reported within the organization and externally as appropriate  Coordinate the development and implementation of quality healthcare guidelines  Design schedules to conduct internal audits to identify discrepancies and areas of improvement  Distributes copies of policies and procedures to all clinical and administrative units  Ensure compliance to quality healthcare standards  Ensure overall coordination of quality assurance quality committee members  Ensure that all quality improvement documents are well filed and accessible only to authorized staff  Lead the development of quality improvements projects  Maintain records of proceedings and actions  Monitor and measure results from quality improvement projects  Monitor support Quality Improvement activities  Monitor the documentation and implementation of policies and procedures Provide monitoring and evaluation support to units.  Monitor the Implementation of performance based monitoring system  Monitoring and evaluation of quality healthcare services  Prepares a list of discrepancies to be presented during management review meetings  Review and evaluate patients’ medical records, applying quality assurance criteria  Supervise and lead the development and implementation of policies and procedures III. Traits  Respecting & individual & cult  Encourages colleagues and team members to meet challenges and achieve objectives,  Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French; knowledge of all is an advantage IV. Key Performance Indicators  Annual accreditation evaluation score (more than 80%)  Health safety committees are full functional 37  All policies and procedures are updated, valid and implemented  Number of departments’ quality assurance projects submitted