The district clinical specialist develops and supports the implementation of RMNCAH programme and interventions towards the quality health care and ultimately eliminating preventable maternal and newborn deaths. The specialist must be a nurse or midwife with a strong clinical and public health background and experience mentoring other service providers. The successful candidate will oversee clinical mentorship activities and provide supportive supervision, technical guidance and ensure high quality service delivery within the Ghana Health Service Networks of Practice (NOP).

 Key responsibilities

Clinical Leadership

Provide technical and operations oversight to clinical mentors within the NOP

Provide facilitative and supportive supervision

Ensure adherence to protocols, guidelines and international best practices

Team management of mentors and mentees

Supervision and support for clinical mentors

Foster teamwork and promote collaboration

Work closely with the regional training coordinators within the Ghana Health Services

Program Implementation

Establish guidelines for succession planning

Conduct clinical capacity gap assessment

Oversee RMNCAH, Nutrition and malaria implementation interventions

Develop plans, monitor progress, identify good practices for scale-up

Oversee data collection, reporting and analysis

Capacity building 

Develop and implement training plans for mentors and other providers

Facilitate workshops, training sessions and coaching

Conduct regular site visits and provide technical assistance

Monitor and report on service quality

Conduct periodic client satisfaction surveys

Collaboration and partnership

• Liaise with regional and district stakeholders, NGOs, religious and traditional authorities etc.
• Foster partnership to enhance community ownership and service delivery.

Qualification and experience

• Professional Nurse or midwife with at least 10 years of continuous clinical practice
• Additional education in Public Health preferred
• Proven experience in clinical capacity building and leadership role
• Strong Knowledge of RMNCAH, Nutrition and malaria interventions and national guidelines.
• Familiarity with quality improvement methods
• Experience working with international organizations

Physical demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be mobile in the healthcare facility environment and able to use standard office equipment.
• Must be able to communicate in verbal and written form.

 Work environment:

• Typical office environment with exposure to a minimal noise level.
• Project HOPE employees work in the global health field and may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship”.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.