Healthcare Programme Coordinator at The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Under the guidance of the Community Programme Manager, coordinate the management and oversight of all activities of the healthcare programme.
2. Oversee the growth of partnership programmes within the healthcare programme initiatives
3. Maintain nursing guidelines by implementing policies in the clinics
4. Coordinate and enforce the healthcare programmes’ operational and personnel policies and procedures
5. Supervise the staff in all the clinics, provide leadership, guidance and review performance of staff reporting to the title
6. Review existing healthcare standard operating procedures (SOPs) from time to time to align with emerging changes in healthcare management
7. Support the nurses-in-charge in the management of drugs and non-pharmaceutical products, from their requisition, procurement, receiving, storage, dispensing
8. Making presentations to healthcare programme donors, writing proposals where necessary and taking responsibility for preparation of all healthcare related reports
9. Ensuring that the healthcare programme complies with all statutory requirements.

Job Specifications

The ideal candidate must possess:

• A diploma in clinical medicine, nursing or their equivalent and a diploma in healthcare management or its equivalent;
• Certification and registration as a Clinical Officer/Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse
• 5 years’ practical experience with a two-year preference healthcare facility leadership/management role
• Clear understanding of healthcare economics, labour relations, human resources with proven management skills
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Strong organisational and coordination skills
• Proficiency in the use of computers and technology
• High level of integrity and independence
• Ready to start working immediately