Description

Job Description

PHCC has a vision to be the leader in transforming the health and wellbeing of people’s lives in Qatar. PHCC’s mission is to deliver comprehensive, integrated and coordinated person-centered health care services in the community through focusing on disease prevention, healthy lifestyles and wellness. In partnership with our stakeholders, we will improve the health and wellbeing of our population.

The incumbent will contribute to the organization by taking responsibility for providing support to clinical audit projects that are aimed to ensure that optimum care is delivered to our patients.

Key Accountabilities & Duties:

• Conduct clinical audits based on the framework and priority areas identified by the Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Assurance.
• Conduct clinical audits based on incidents and client complaints in coordination with the Quality Management.
• Support development of systems to identify sample eligibility for inclusion in a clinical audit.
• Determine standards of patient care and defines the standards very precisely so that the actual quality of care can be measured accurately.
• Continuously evaluate the quality of clinical documentation and monitor the appropriateness of physician queries.
• Extract data from healthcare records and various systems and sources in order to create datasets containing clinical information.
• Assist in developing effective audit tools for a variety of care settings involving patients and caregivers where possible.
• Review and interpret clinical information from a variety of sources including patient records and other souse to ensure clinical guidelines are being followed.
• Review and interpret clinical information from a variety of sources including patient records and other souse to ensure clinical guidelines are being followed.
• Assist in explorative data analysis and interpretation of problems identified and develops action plans for implementation to effect changes in clinical practices.
• Contribute to the development of recommendations to mitigate risks, enhance methods of performing services to improve patient outcomes.
• Assist in developing reports and findings documenting in-depth work to identify the cause, criteria, condition, effect and recommendation on clinical audit activities.
• Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by thinking what might go wrong in all your undertakings and take necessary measures to prevent them from happening.
• Identify and report potential or actual patient safety concerns, errors and/or near misses in timely manner.
• Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols.
• Partner with line manager to understand risks in your area of work, develop a plan on how to mitigate those risks, and develop shared accountability for implementing and evaluating the plan.
• Ensure high standards of confidentiality to safeguard any sensitive information.
• The incumbent will undertake any such appropriate duties or responsibilities as directed.

Minimum Job Requirements:

Education Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in healthcare/clinical related field

Certification, license or training Requirements: Certificate in Clinical Audit or Quality Assurance is preferred

Experience & Knowledge: Minimum of 4 years of experience in Clinical Audit or similar role in Primary or secondary health care setting.