National Professional Officer (Patient Safety)

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The program aims to support the Ministry of Health and other key national Stakeholders in health care to improve service delivery by focusing on patient safety and quality of care initiatives during health emergencies and pandemics. The pandemic has highlighted the significant risk of preventable injury to patients, health care professionals, and the public and has identified a range of safety gaps across all core components of health systems at all levels.
Impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic did have on patient safety in terms of risks and avoidable harm, specifically in terms of diagnostic, treatment, and care management-related issues as well as highlight the main patterns of these implications within the broader health system context.
Working with the health workforce, in a standardized manner and according to norms, would ensure that what WHO will put in place unifies across the fragmentation and has the support of the whole societal and governmental approach.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

1. Ensure that the standards and systems used to deliver quality and accountable services and monitoring reports include information on levels of compliance achieved against standards and indicators for the WHO-USAID Supporting Urgent Needs of Egypt's COVID-19 Response Activity project.
2. Provide technical support for the development of a national Patient Safety Plan in the context of pandemics
3. Develop assessment measures to gauge project service delivery and take innovative measures to improve service efficiencies and effectiveness.
4. Provide technical expertise and support to national health authorities in the field of patient safety, health care quality, infection control, and injection safety aspects with a focus on healthcare-associated infections and Surgical safety.
5. Support national authorities in conducting research activities related to the areas of work.
6. Collaborate with other colleagues at WCO to conduct events, workshops, training sessions, and meetings, producing and disseminating of educational materials related to patient safety.
7. Ensure proper and timely handling and monitoring of consultants' briefing, agenda, facilitation of the missions, evaluation, and follow-up on recommendations.
8. Proactively participate in resource mobilization activities and in developing project proposals reflecting health priorities in the country, ensuring the needed follow-up in terms of fundsraising, effort, timely implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and donor reporting.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: University degree in Medicine or public health
Desirable: Master's degree in Public Health, epidemiology, infection control, clinical pathology, or health care quality.

Experience

Essential: At least 2 years of relevant experience, at the national level, in one or more of the related domains; patient safety, health care quality, Infection prevention and control, and injection safety.
Desirable: Relevant experience in the UN system or an international organization

Skills

• Demonstrated knowledgeof public health, communicable disease control, analyzing data, concise reporting, and surveillance of communicable diseases.
• Proven skills in the development, implementation, and analysis of national strategies, surveillance projects and activities, including budget programming and control.
• Ability to write reports, oral presentations, and technical and advocacy documents.

WHO Competencies

Teamwork
Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
Communication
Producing results
Moving forward in a changing environment

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Excellent knowledge of English. Excellent knowledge of Local Language.

Other Skills (e.g. IT)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications as well as surveillance databases

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at EGP 809,122 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level.
• Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply on-line through Stellis. For assessment of your application, please ensure that:
  1 -Your profile on Stellis is properly completed and updated.
  2- All required details regarding your qualifications, education, training and experience are provided under relevant sections.
  3- Your experience records are properly entered with elaboration on tasks performed at the time.
• Enhanced WHO Global Competency Model:
  https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/enhanced-who-global-competency-model

• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test may be used as a form of screening.

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• The statutory retirement age for staff appointments is 65 years. For external applicants, only those who are expected to complete the term of appointment will normally be considered.

• This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.

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