General Summary

The technical case management officer will work closely with the response teams to provide technical and operational support for the delivery of safe, timely and high-quality case-management services during disease outbreaks and other public-health emergencies.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and secretariat support
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for EVD case management activities within assigned treatment centres, and supported health facilities.
• Participate in regular case management meetings
• Identify focal persons information sharing, capacity building and training and maintain an up-to-date list of contacts at the secretariat.
• Facilitate engagement with isolation units focal persons to ensure that effective and efficient reporting is achieved
• Support pillar/ sub-pillar secretariat on information to support planning and budgeting for planned activities
• Clinical care and IPC support
• Support the implementation of standard operating procedures, clinical protocols, treatment algorithms
• Support clinical assessment, supportive care, monitoring of vital signs, fluid and electrolyte management, nutrition, treatment of common complications, and management of co-existing conditions.
• Participate in simulation exercises and readiness assessments to identify and address gaps.
• Ensure that treatment areas are organized to minimize the risk of healthcare-associated transmission.
• Work closely with IPC teams to ensure strict implementation of IPC measures within treatment units
• Promote appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE), hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, disinfection, safe injection practices, waste management, and other IPC measures.
• Support safe donning and doffing practices and ensure healthcare workers are appropriately trained and mentored.
• Identify and promptly report breaches in IPC practices and support corrective actions.
• Participate in healthcare worker exposure assessments and follow-up in collaboration with the IPC and occupational health teams.
• Ensure that clinical practices are designed to reduce occupational and healthcare-associated transmission.
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  Capacity building 

• Support coordination of capacity development activities to strengthen and
• Support the revision/updating of training materials/tools based on revisions to treatment guidelines activities
• When requested by MoH pillar leadership (and in compliance with all institutional policies) contribute to or draft technical reports, lessons learned, case studies on capacity building
• Organize and conduct regular mentorships of the teams in consultation with the team leads
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• Data Sharing and reporting
• Ensure accurate and regular reporting
• Prepare regular case management reports and technical updates
• Contribute to daily, weekly, and incident management team reporting.
• Support the pillar to prepare and share data on the cases, hospital requirement and bed availability and treatment.

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery (MBChB), nursing from a chartered university
• prior experience in the incident management response structure specifically case management sub pillars and must have skills in organizing and conducting adult learning, use of shared/collaborative workspaces and electronic platforms.

Person Specification

• At least three years of relevant experience in clinical care, public health or humanitarian health programming, including a minimum of two years in outbreak preparedness or response.
• Demonstrated experience in case management for epidemic-prone diseases such as Ebola, Marburg, mpox, cholera or COVID-19.
• Practical experience in screening, triage, isolation, referral, treatment coordination, discharge and patient follow-up.
• Experience working with the Ministry of Health, district health teams, health facilities and other emergency-response partners in Uganda.
• Proven experience in training, mentoring and providing supportive supervision to frontline health workers.
• Experience conducting health-facility readiness assessments and monitoring compliance with case-management and infection-prevention protocols.
• Experience managing and analysing case-management data, including line lists, referral trackers, dashboards and technical reports.
• Experience participating in rapid response teams, emergency coordination structures, case audits and after-action reviews.

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