Samasha was contracted by the Ministry of Health through the Uganda Reproductive Maternal Child Health Services Improvement Project to provide consultancy services for clinical skills update and mentorship for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn,Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) in the Busoga/Bukedi region.
The objective of the assignment is to coordinate and supervise the Health Professional Associations (HPAs) and Regional Referral Hospitals (RRHs) in the implementation and provision of clinical mentorship program in the regions (Busoga and Bukedi) and facilitate the programme to achieve its goal and objective.
It’s a 12months project.
The Specific objectives are
- In collaboration and working with Health Professional Associations and respective Regional Referral Hospitals, prepare and submit a detailed and costed proposal for providing the clinical mentorship programme for all the health workers in Health Centres IIIs and IVs and hospitals of the specified region (s) (and the districts therein) of the country
- Conduct a Training/Mentorship Needs Assessment (TNA) for the mentorship of the health workers in all the districts of the specified region.
- Ensure HPAs and RRHS conduct the training/mentorship and follow up of the health workers in collaboration with MoH.
- Establish and maintain a training/mentorship database for trained staff in the region by district. Use of the existing MoH HRIS is advised but take care of tracking improvement in competence levels.
- Coordinate and supervise the Health Professional Associations and the respective Regional Referral Hospitals in the provision of the mentorship of the health workers in the specified regions
- Facilitate Health Professional Associations and Regional Referral Hospitals to provide the mentorship programme (detailed in the submitted proposal) in the region
- Monitor the implementation of the mentorship programme in the specified regions, tracking coverage, skills and competence improvement, clinical quality of care as well as improved leadership and data driven programming in the health facilities
- Provide regular (Monthly and Quarterly) updates on progress of the implementation of the mentorship programme to Ministry of Health
At the end of the project, we expect to have improved the knowledge and skills of health workers hence reduction of maternal/neonatal mortality and morbidity
The project is to run for 12 months and is expected to end in January 2022