Closing on: Feb 19, 2025
Job Category: Management
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Lilongwe
Job Summary
The Head of the Centre is responsible to and receives direction from the Medical Officer. He/she will work in close collaboration with section heads in planning, organizing, coordinating and implementing activities of the centre while adhering to approved SOPs in order to meet the regional blood needs through meeting the centre’s blood collection targets and ensuring equitable blood distribution to hospital blood banks.
He/she will ensure smooth running of the Blood Transfusion Centre adhering to Terms and Conditions of Employment for the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service.
Qualification, Experience and Competencies:
- A degree in Biomedical Science, or Nursing from an accredited institution
- Registered with the relevant regulatory bodies.
- Having worked in Blood Transfusion Service for at least 3 years or in a similar senior position elsewhere for 5 years.
- Good communication skills
- Ability to build a successful team
Qualification, Experience and Competencies:
- A degree in Biomedical Science, or Nursing from an accredited institution
- Registered with the relevant regulatory bodies.
- Having worked in Blood Transfusion Service for at least 3 years or in a similar senior position elsewhere for 5 years.
- Good communication skills
- Ability to build a successful team
Description of Tasks
- Coordinates day to day operational activities of Laboratory, Blood Donor, Public Relations and Administration departments for the centre to meet its blood collection targets and to attain adequate blood distribution.
- Ensures implementation of quality assurance at the Centre.
- Ensures sustained availability of resources for individual departments to carry out tasks for continuous improved service delivery
- Initiates periodic management meetings to enhance integration, service delivery performance, quality improvement and staff development
- Ensures proper documentation, timely data capture, compilation for statistics and regular submission of reports to the Medical Officer and other relevant Managers.
- Ensures staff management (adherence to MBTS conditions of service, maintenance of discipline, signed job descriptions, timely staff appraisals and in collaboration with sectional heads, identification of staff training needs and participates in development of training plan)
- Ensures proper reconciliation and management of funds such as petty cash, donor refunds, funds for fuel and in liaison with the Medical Officer / FAD take appropriate corrective actions in the event of any misappropriations in a timely manner
- Ensures that vehicles, buildings and equipment are properly maintained and kept clean at all times.
- Helps in the day-to-day operations for the department s/he has professional qualifications and skills in and provides cover for the senior officer in that department.