Infectious Disease Institute

Health care + 1 more

Medical Officer

Job details

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Description

Academic Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
  • Additional training in TB care and opportunistic infections will be an added advantage.
Person Specification
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
  • Full and active registration with the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council.
  • Additional training in TB care and opportunistic infections will be an added advantage.
  • A minimum of two years of TB Clinical experience


Responsibilities
  • Lead mentorship and training efforts to build capacity of facility teams to deliver high quality TB care services.
  • Provide leadership to facility based technical team members to ensure timely delivery on key project tasks.
  • Provide clinical care to TB patients attending IDI-Supported health facilities in line with standard care and treatment guidelines.
  • Coordinate appropriate referral and management of complex patients through liaison with senior care specialists and tertiary treatment centres.
  • Lead performance monitoring initiatives and routine data use activities at IDI-supported health facilities to guide implementation of project activities.
  • Support the health workers to identify, implement and document continuous quality improvement activities along client care and treatment cascades.
  • Coordinate and support facility efforts in follow up of clients to improve linkage, retention among clients in TB care.

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