Global Health Fellow – NURSE/DOCTOR/MIDWIFE/PARAMEDIC [INTERNATIONAL POSITION] 56 views2 applications

Kings Global Health Partnerships (KGHP) are excited to recruit for the new KGHP Fellowship to support systems strengthening across our partner countries. We are looking for senior Medics, Nurses, Midwives, Paramedics or Allied Health Professionals with relevant experience to support the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)-funded, Saving Lives Phase III programme in Sierra Leone. The programme aims to support the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) to deliver on improving maternal, child and reproductive health outcomes in the country, whilst strengthening health systems for a sustainable solution.

KGHP is leading a Clinical Mentorship programme across six districts in Sierra Leone to support Nurses and Midwives with vital lifesaving skills. The Fellows will support the development of a hospital education team underpinned by a continued professional development framework. Each member of the new education team will undergo a Leadership in Education programme delivered by the Fellow which will be co-created with the hospital management team.

Job Tasks Include:

• Set up the role of Education Lead in the hospital
• Identify and mentor a team of nurses/midwives of educators – Support with clinical mentorship on the wards
• Set up training sessions and skills labs on such areas as (but not restricted to):
  • Sierra Leone Early Warning Scores (SLEWS) vital signs training
  • Triage systems for adult, child and pregnant women
  • Assessment of deteriorating patients o Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) Improvement
• Work with hospital senior teams to embed continued professional development frameworks supporting multidisciplinary team collaboration
• Regular reporting on the activities of the project, including contributing project reports – Plan visits to community health care units to support cascade mentorship
• Develop partnership and engagement events to showcase lessons learnt and co-create training materials to support the hospital’s specific needs
• Represent KGHP at District Hospital Management Team meetings and work with Ministry of Health representatives
• Support strategy development through utilising data collection tools to guide decision making and policy development at hospital and national level
• Create guidelines, SOPs and workforce development tools to ensure robust governance framework which supports the Sierra Leonian health system strengthening

Timeline:

This is a 12-month Fellowship opportunity for each recruit starting in either May 2025 OR August 2025. . A second and third round of Fellows will take over for each year of the programme running.

Academic Experience Required:

Essential

• Doctors with minimum 3 years’ experience – post foundation programme.
• Band 7/8 Nurses, Midwives or AHPs with professional registration in home country (applicants from senior band 6 roles will be considered who have relevant management experience).

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in specialism/ education & mentorship training or membership exams.
• Diploma of hygiene and tropical medicine/nursing or country equivalent.
• Paediatric emergency care experience.
• Obs and gynae experience.

Professional Experience Required:

Essential

• Current, active professional healthcare license (medical license or medical registration for medical doctors) issued by one of the following countries: any EU/EEA country, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Singapore, or Malaysia.
• Experience mentoring and training others in both theoretical and practical sessions, including OSCE, simulation, scenarios, and lectures.
• Proven ability to lead teams in busy, fast-paced healthcare environments.
• Understanding of service delivery and operational leadership within a healthcare setting.
• Applicants from non-English speaking countries must demonstrate English proficiency at a minimum of C1 level as defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

Desirable

• Clinical experience in a low resource setting.
• Implementing a quality improvement project in a low resource setting and showing impact.
• Working in an infectious diseases’ speciality

Our Offer To You:

You will have the opportunity to work as part of a dynamic team and contribute to improving health outcomes for a population in need. In addition, there is strong evidence that health partnerships like ours do not only benefit people in low-resource settings. They also bring real benefit to NHS staff and services as well as citizens in our partner countries. Among others, these benefits include the opportunity to develop:

• Enrolment in the new KGHP Fellowship supporting global health systems strengthening
• Skills in interdisciplinary team working
• Knowledge and skills in innovation and quality improvement
• Clinical and teaching experience
• Cross-cultural experience
• Personal resilience and efficiency

Support for fellows:

• Pre-departure and in-country induction
• Cost of return flights to and from initial post is covered by KGHP
• £500 monthly stipend
• Cost of visa, residency permits, and professional registration covered by KGHP
• Cost of vaccinations and antimalarials covered by KGHP
• Enrolment onto King’s College London Travel Insurance policy
• Medical indemnity cover
• Cost of accommodation covered by KGHP