Stanley Korir
Dagenham,BDG
Summary
A top-notch health systems specialist exhibiting over 6 years’ experience, implementing essential public health measures, and strengthening health systems. Offering strong background in project coordination, monitoring and evaluation, and health financing. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organisations strategic objectives.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Maternity care assistant
Bakering, Havering, Redbridge Hospitals Trust-NHS
Romford, Havering
05.2023 - Current
- Supported midwives in providing compassionate clinical care to women in labour, during delivery and postnatally.
- Performed and documented clinical observations such as temperature, pulse, respiration rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation levels.
- Performed venepuncture and glucose tolerance tests under midwife's direction.
- Guided new mothers in practical infant care related to nappy changing, top andtailing and cord care.
- Advised on potential feeding methods and baby-friendly standards.
- Supported safekeeping of patient property in accordance with trust policy.
- Tended to treatment rooms, cleaning equipment, restocking supplies and safely transferring soiled linens.
- Proactively supported breastfeeding and bottle-feeding mothers, providing helpful guidance and advice to optimise those choices.
- Kept personal development and mandatory training up-to-date, requesting additional training as required for enhanced care provisions.
- Undertook circulatory role in obstetric procedures and processed cord blood samples.
- Verified patient identification, double-checking patient chart details and wrist labels.
- Promoted positive parenting through health education and SIDS prevention inline with public health agenda.
- Closely monitored changes in mother or baby's condition, reporting to registered nurses as appropriate.
- Delivered outstanding individualised antenatal, maternity and postnatal care, promoting equality and dignity at all times.
- Prepared equipment, set up instruments and assisted during procedures.
- Maintained a consistently safe environment, ensuring all clinical areas were kept spotlessly clean and tidy.
- Assisted midwife with discharge process for smooth patient transfers.
- Demonstrated principles of sterilisation and safe preparation of artificial milk feeds.
Youth Support Worker
Oasis Home Services
Barking and Dagenham
01.2023 - Current
- Completed necessary reports and documentation to maintain thorough, accurate case records.
- Encouraged participation and engagement in planned activities.
- Safeguarded young people in line with national guidelines.
- Helped with coordination and supervision of youth activities and delivered positive interventions.
- Provided support during regular youth sessions and planned activities.
- Role modelled positive behaviour and interpersonal skills.
- Approached youth challenges with empathy and mentored individuals in critical thinking and problem-solving.
- Built trusting rapport, mentoring specific young people in diverse subjects and interests.
- Supported integration of service users back into community life to maximise successful transition rate.
- Built positive, productive client relationships for enhanced social support.
- Kept detailed, accurate records for well-maintained care continuity between support staff.
- Maintained confidential case documentation in line with data protection regulations.
- Attended regular training and supervision workshops for improved service user support.
- Monitored service user progress, escalating concerns for swift resolution.
Kenya Health Information System Consultant
Free Lance
Kenya
04.2022 - 08.2022
- Trained healthcare staff from various counties on Kenya Health Management Information Systems including District Health Information System (DHIS2), Kenya Master Health Facility Checklist (KMHFL), Kenya Health Information e-Learning Platform.
- Worked with the Ministry of Education through School-based Deworming Program in the integration of DHIS2 with National Education Management System (NEMIS)
- Trained County and Subcounty officers from Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education on Data entry, Report Generation and Data analysis using DHIS2
- Worked with other Non Governmental Organisations to train healthcare staff including Nurses and Health Records Officers on DHIS2.
- Provided technical assistance to County Health Records Officers on solving Kenya Health Management Information Systems queries
Health Systems Strengthening Officer
Options Consultancy Limited
07.2020 - 03.2022
- Maintained excellent working relationship with the counties and other implementing partners which elevated the organizational reputation and image. This enhanced smooth implementation of project's activities.
- Advocated for and supported the counties in the legislation of Facility Improvement Funds (FIF) Bill which ensured 100% plough back rate of the revenue generated at the health facilities.
- Upheld the value for money principle through collaboration with the government and implementing partners to co-fund activities which saved the project's activity budgets by 30% and this upheld the budget allocable and allowable limits.
- Strengthened sensitization and utilization of National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) services in the county which enabled the facilities to achieve financial autonomy and improved maternity services. Through sensitization, 90% of government facilities were able to enroll and access NHIF services.
- Provided technical support to the counties in the development and implementation of planning and budgeting activities such as Annual Work Plans (AWP), Annual Performance Reviews (APR).
- Advocated for the inclusion and prioritization of maternal and newborn health interventions in the counties' APR and AWPs.
- Trained 90 healthcare staff (Health Records Officers, Program managers and Nurses) from the counties on Kenya Health Information System (KHIS) which translated to improved data quality. This led to improved facility reporting rates from 81% to 98%.
- Strengthened Health Management and Information systems in the counties through financial and technical support. Data quality issues reduced greatly.
- Strengthened the uploads of maternal and perinatal death reviews to Kenya Health Information Systems (KHIS )Tracker from 12% to 85%. This enhanced Data Demand Information use for decision making in improving maternal and newborn health services.
- Enabled two of the project supported counties to be the top 2 leading counties country wide in the review and uploading of perinatal deaths to KHIS with 99% and 85% respectively.
- Enhanced implementation of actions plans through use of Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Action tracker tool. Through action tracking, the actions implemented rose from 0% to 78% in the counties.
- Strengthened hemovigilance activities such as blood collection, hemovigilance training, hemovigilance action tracking to reduce maternal deaths due to blood loss during delivery.
- Collected more than 20,000 pints of blood through frequent blood drives in the counties. This reduced maternal deaths caused by excessive bleeding to 0%.
- Supported 90 staff to undergo hemovigilance training which led to improved knowledge and skills on blood issues. This led to increased utilization of blood components across the transfusing health facilities.
- Appointed member of Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Technical Working Group. Chaired one of the meetings on assessing the quality of MPDSR recommended actions.
- Drafted and submitted project's monthly and quarterly activity reports in timely manner.
Acting Maternal and Newborn Health Coordinator
Options Consultancy Limited
07.2020 - 12.2020
- Provided technical leadership to support county, sub-county and facility Ministry of Health (MOH) counterparts improve service quality and maternal and new-born health outcomes, through implementation of project's priority interventions
- Strengthened the quality of maternal and newborn care through frequent assessment of maternity readiness to offer essential services. This enabled facilities to stock maternity essential drugs, non pharmaceuticals, maternity equipment and supplies, recruitment of maternity staff and improved data management.
- Provided facilitation and technical support in the reviews and uploads of maternal and perinatal deaths in the counties. As a result, maternal death reviews increased from 70% to 100% whereas perinatal death reviews rose from 20% to 60%.
- Coordinated the implementation of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmoNC) mentorship program at the counties that enhanced the knowledge and skills of maternity staff . This reduced referrals from the low-level facilities to the county referral hospital by 50%, reduced perinatal and maternal deaths, improved management of obstetric complications.
- Developed mentorship database that was used to monitor EmONC mentorship programs in the counties
- Strengthened the implementation of MPDSR action plans using MPDSR Action Tracker. This led to increase in the number of health facilities implementing MPDSR action plans from 30% to 68%.
Acting Project Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Transforming Health Systems Project -WorldBank
01.2020 - 06.2020
- Compiled the project's financial reports
- Developed and shared the reporting templates amongst the project staff for report compilation on monthly and quarterly basis
- Documented lessons learned and developed project learning briefs for analysis and utilization of data for decision-making
- Ensured timely monitoring and submission of project's reports from the respective staff within the project for dissemination with the relevant stakeholders such as donor, government and other partners.
- Generated charts and graphs to visualize the performance of the key project indicators for decision making
- Coordinated and facilitated quarterly county data verification
- Frequently generated and analyzed reports on the project interventions from KHIS which enabled the project management team to make evidence-based decisions.
- Supported the review of Annual Workplans and Annual Performance Reviews which led to reduction in turn around time of feedback to the counties
- Frequently updated the project's monthly and quarterly activity report which covered the project's performance of interventions for the counties.
Health Information Systems Officer
Ministry of Health
06.2017 - 12.2019
- Supported the development of policies and guidelines on health information for implementation at counties such as Health Information Policy, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and guidelines for Kenya health information systems, data management and data quality assurance.
- Partook in the development of Kenya Health Management Information System (KHMIS) Customization and training curriculum including District Health Information System (DHIS2), Kenya Master Health Facility Checklist (KMHFL), and Data Service Layer (DSL)
- Master trainer on Kenya Health Information Systems (KHIS) system (DHIS2, KHMFL and DSL)
- Participated in the development of Health sector indicator manual and revision KHMIS data collection tools
- Provided technical support in maintenance of Kenya Health Information System (KHIS) through solving of data queries from the sub national users, creation of District Health Information System (DHIS2) accounts
- Provided technical support in the development of Ministry of Health DHIS2 virtual learning. This reduced the cost of physical conference meetings and increased the coverage of DHIS2 training to inaccessible and hard to reach areas.
- Supported the development and review of county annual workplans and annual performance reviews
- Worked with the software development partners (HealthIT-USAID) in the development and maintenance of Kenya Health Information Systems such as DHIS2, Data Service Layer (DSL), MOH KHIS Virtual Learning Platform.
- Participated in Kenya Harmonized Health Facility Assessment Surveys which involved assessment of service areas within the health facility for example Maternal and Child Health Department to enhance preparedness.
- Trained healthcare staff (HRIOs and Program managers) from the 47 counties on DHIS2 to enhance improved reporting and data quality improvement
- Provided Support supervision to the counties on Maternal and Perinatal deaths reporting to DHIS2
- Facilitated the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Review (MPDSR) trainings at the counties
- Provided capacity building to counties on the implementation of scorecard to track their priority reproductive health indicators and actions
- Generated Quarterly Departmental Bulletins
- Generated Annual departmental reports
Education
Master of Science - Public Health and Community Wellbeing
Anglia Ruskin University
United Kingdom 09.2022 - 08.2023
Ceritificate of Project Management -Global Health - Professional Development
University of Washington
United States.09.2021
Bachelor of Science - Health Systems Management
Kenyatta University
Nairobi-Kenya 09.2013 - 04.2017
Skills
- Experience in supporting development projects in the field,
- Experience in proposals development and donor reporting
- Experience in effectively dealing with international and headquarters staff, and the ability to deal with a broad spectrum of people
- Knowledge and experience of Project cycle management
- Knowledge and experience of Logical Framework project planning and design
- Proposal development and donor report skills
- Knowledge of major donors rules and regulations
- Report writing
- Good research skills
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret and apply donor regulations and requirements
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to use creativity, reasoning, past experience, information and available resources to resolve issues
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from management and field programs
- Excellent writing skills, excellent cross-cultural communication
- Extensive travel maybe required
- Fluent in written and spoken English
Websites
Languages
Swahili
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
Timeline
Maternity care assistant
Bakering, Havering, Redbridge Hospitals Trust-NHS
05.2023 - Current
Youth Support Worker
Oasis Home Services
01.2023 - Current
Master of Science - Public Health and Community Wellbeing
Anglia Ruskin University
09.2022 - 08.2023
Kenya Health Information System Consultant
Free Lance
04.2022 - 08.2022
Health Systems Strengthening Officer
Options Consultancy Limited
07.2020 - 03.2022
Acting Maternal and Newborn Health Coordinator
Options Consultancy Limited
07.2020 - 12.2020
Acting Project Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Transforming Health Systems Project -WorldBank
01.2020 - 06.2020
Health Information Systems Officer
Ministry of Health
06.2017 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Science - Health Systems Management
Kenyatta University
09.2013 - 04.2017
Ceritificate of Project Management -Global Health - Professional Development
University of Washington
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