Director of Clinical Strategy, King’s Global Health Partnerships

Job id: 086315. Salary: £51,974 – £57,815 including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 14 March 2024. Closing date: 19 March 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Department of Population Health Sciences.

Contact details:Piera Freccero. [email protected]

Location: Guy’s Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with the Head of Programmes of King’s Global Health Partnerships (KGHP), to provide strategic and operational clinical leadership for our new programme of work in Sierra Leone.  The post is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone but 2-4 weeks will be spent in the UK office to strengthen NHS clinical engagement, particularly in nursing and emergency care and to support cross-partnership learning.

The post provides strategic leadership into the FCDO-funded Concern Consortium as the Clinical Lead on the Consortium Board. In addition, the post provides clinical leadership for the creation of the KGHP fellowship scheme and for all the KGHP fellows working across 6 district hospitals in Sierra Leone. These volunteers will support training of health staff in the district hospitals and community health centres.

In addition, the post will provide leadership for KGHP volunteers undertaking leadership and management training and mentorship for hospital leadership and district management teams. KGHP’s role in the FCDO programme focuses on workforce development across district hospitals and primary health units with a strong focus on in-service education and training through continuous professional development. The post also provides strategic leadership and clinical coordination of all the other KGHP interventions in Sierra Leone, including strategic clinical oversight of the Emergency Care Systems development project.

Learnings from the clinical work in Sierra Leone will be shared across our health partnerships in Democratic Republic of Congo, The Gambia, Somaliland, and Zambia. This will be facilitated through a close working relationship with two new KGHP posts – the Health Systems Strengthening Lead and the Policy Lead, and taking part of KGHP SMT.

The ideal candidate will be a middle-grade or senior health professional with experience leading emergency department clinical teams and with health service strategic leadership experience.

This post will be offered on an fixed-term contract until 7th April 2026.

This is a full-time post – 100% full time equivalent.

Key responsibilities

• Provide strategic clinical leadership on the Board of the FCDO-funded ‘Saving Lives 3’ Consortium led by Concern
• Co-lead the development of the KGHP Fellowship with KGHP Senior Management Team
• Manage and support the clinical team working across district hospitals in the ‘Saving Lives 3’ programme and support KGHP volunteers
• Represent KGHP in Sierra Leone and act as the lead member for the KSLP team, managing the Director of Operations and Programme manager
• Contribute to relevant KGHP cross-partnerships discussions
• Lead and maintain strong and supportive relationships with clinical leadership at Connaught Hospital and across other health facilities and within the Ministry of Health
• Provide technical advice to partners and key institutions and help identify partners to bring in additional technical advice where required
• Provide technical input to grant development and management
• Support the development and the implementation of monitoring, evaluation and learning in collaboration with the Programme Manager and the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
• Provide strategic and technical support for grant writing
• Support the communications team in their efforts to showcase and communicate our work to a range of audiences

Travel

Note that this role is based in Freetown but will require time in the London Office, approximately 2-4 weeks per year.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential

A nursing, medical or other health professional degree

At least one year of experience working within a public sector health facility in Sub Saharan Africa, ideally in Sierra Leone

Extensive experience of workforce development as well as educational/CPD leadership

Understanding of, and commitment to, King’s Global Health Partnership values and ability to demonstrate the KGHP values such as humility, collaboration, inclusivity, and respectful and reciprocal partnership

Willingness to live in Freetown and also to spend time in London office

A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, actively addressing areas of potential bias

Desirable

Experience of leading emergency care clinical teams and of strategic clinical leadership

Experience contributing to health systems research, including publications

The proven ability to lead, motivate and manage a diverse team of professionals

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of five Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women’s Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.

More information: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.