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Senior Technical Advisor – Anaesthesia:Maternity & Newborn Hospital Project

The story
Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) is Tanzania’s largest local provider of disability and rehabilitation services in the country. We’re committed to not only empowering people with disabilities and their families, improving their quality of life, and ensuring access to medical and rehabilitative treatment, but crucially, preventing disabilities wherever possible. This has led us to engage in extensive maternal and newborn healthcare activities with a focus on early detection. The construction of our ambitious CCBRT Maternity & Newborn Hospital (MH) is currently underway, with doors set to open in early 2018.

Are you the candidate we’re looking for to drive forward strategy development and planning for all anaesthesia services at CCBRT’s MH? Do you have the expertise to contribute to the successful delivery of high-quality, respectful and safe medical care to high-risk and emergency mother and newborn at CCBRT’s new 200-bed Maternity & Newborn Hospital? As Senior Technical Advisor, you will be a major player in this project to change the face of maternity and newborn care in Tanzania.
The role
As the authority on anaesthesia services on the MH team, you will use your expertise to define the model of anaesthesia services, detailing policies, processes and SOPs and contribute to the senior leadership team on all anaesthesia-related matters. You will use your leadership and motivational skills to lead the MH anaesthesia department, ensuring high performance and morale throughout, and provide excellence in training: including provision of highly specialised advice, supervision and mentoring to anaesthesia staff pre-MH opening; developing anaesthesia-related components of the mandatory pre-employment induction training, and developing and implementing training programmes for anaesthesia staff and monitoring the quality and impact of training.
At this critical stage in planning for go-live in early 2018, you will play a critical role in preparations, providing input in defining the processes and patient flows through the hospital from all ports of entry and exit; planning numbers and types of anaethesia staff required for phased and efficient growth and full capacity; inputting into the development of patient medical records and templates for all clinical services and support; equipment and supply planning and development a transition plan for anaesthesia services up until opening. You’ll support overall MH operational development, monitor general quality standards across areas of care, implementing corrective action where needed, and prepare monthly progress reports.
The candidate
  • A Medical Doctor with a specialization in Anaesthesiology
  • Minimum 10 years clinical work experience including obstetric anaesthesia, ICU and HDU, and at least 5 years in a management position
  • Work experience in a developing country, preferably Tanzania
  • Has strong analytic skills, excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to mobilize teams and work in diverse settings, with good written and oral communications skills in English and preferably Swahili
If you are interested, please submit your curriculum vitae with 2 references and a maximum 1-page covering letter telling us why you believe you are the right person for the role, and why you want to work for CCBRT in particular. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage people with disabilities to apply. Please send your application via email to:recruitment.ccbrt@ccbrt.org
Please indicate job reference number: 2016-28 | DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 15th July 2016
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4.Clinical Lead: Maternity & Newborn Hospital
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The story
Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) is Tanzania’s largest local provider of disability and rehabilitation services in the country. We’re committed to not only empowering people with disabilities and their families, improving their quality of life, and ensuring access to medical and rehabilitative treatment, but crucially, preventing disabilities wherever possible. This has led us to engage in extensive maternal and newborn healthcare activities with a focus on early detection. The construction of our ambitious CCBRT Maternity & Newborn Hospital (MH) is currently underway, with doors set to open in early 2018.
Are you the person to move the operational planning, development and implementation of all our medical services forward? Will you ensure that CCBRT’s new 200-bed Maternity & Newborn Hospital delivers high-quality, respectful and safe medical care to high-risk and emergency mother and newborn cases in Dar es Salaam? As Clinical Lead, you will be at the forefront of this ambitious project to change the face of maternity and newborn care in Tanzania.

The role
As our Clinical Lead, you will provide overall medical leadership to the CCBRT MH project team, ensuring the future delivery of quality medical services for optimal hospital functioning and performance. You’ll set in motion the formulation of our clinical strategy, as well as the strategic (5-year) and operational plan for CCBRT’s MH – including preparing annual performance targets in line with the plan. Policy development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation pertaining to all areas of the hospital’s management, medical and support services will be overseen by you, while you also lead the development and implementation of a coherent transition plan around go-live.
With a careful eye for detail, you’ll ensure
the delivery of medical services and a safe and healthy working environment according to local legislation, standards and international guidelines. You’ll also ensure the hospital has the right people for phased growth and full capacity, through staff numbers and role planning, and lead on recruitment, training, development, performance and reward management of current and future clinical staff. Understanding the importance of external relationships, you will also foster and maintain partnerships with relevant stakeholders (for example: partners, training facilities, colleges, referring facilities) and promote the MH to local and international stakeholders to contribute to wider maternity care medical knowledge and attract practitioners.
The candidate
  • A medical doctor with a specialist medical qualification, preferably in Obstetrics/Gynecology, and a Master’s degree in (hospital) management/administration
  • Minimum of 5 years senior management experience, ideally including the development of new hospitals/departments
  • Work experience in a developing country
  • A strategic, conceptual and analytic thinker with excellent management and leadership qualities and financial acumen
  • An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and experience of relationship management, able to present complex or sensitive information to large groups
  • A person with plenty of initiative, who is self-motivated and driven
  • Strong skills in resource management, including the optimization of human resources, equipment, facilities and capital
If you are interested, please submit your curriculum vitae with 2 references and a maximum 1-page covering letter telling us why you believe you are the right person for the role, and why you want to work for CCBRT in particular. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage people with disabilities to apply. Please send your application via email to:recruitment.ccbrt@ccbrt.org
Please indicate job reference number: 2016-29 | Deadline for applications: 13th July 2016

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