CURE International Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
About the job
CURE International has an exciting opportunity for an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Training Manager based in Nairobi, Kenya. CURE is a faith-based non-profit organization operating a network of eight children’s hospitals throughout Africa and the Philippines. We provide world-class surgical care and intentional spiritual care to children living with treatable disabilities, all of which is free of charge to the patients and their families.The Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Training Manager will be responsible for the successful implementation, rollout, user training, and ongoing adoption of CURE International’s global EMR systems. This individual will work closely with the teams at each of CURE’s eight hospitals, promoting EMR adoption, consistent data entry, and ensuring the EMR system is running smoothly.If you are tech-savvy, love to travel and work with people from all around the world, and are looking to work for a global organization whose mission to heal the sick and proclaim the kingdom of God guides everything we do, apply today!
Essential Duties
- Work closely with hospital leadership, the medical team and IT staff to implement their EMR system (OpenMRS and Laboratory Management), including configuration, data workflow, training new users, go-live and ongoing support, and best practices optimization.
- Travel to the hospitals for training and implementation including frequent return visits to perform follow-up training, user adoption and to ensure compliance with CURE and EMR best practices.
- Train the EMR users at CURE hospitals, ensuring accurate and comprehensive use of, and data entry into, the EMR system.
- Recommend, implement and maintain EMR policies and procedures.
- Coordinate operational and personnel processes and procedures.
- Monitor EMR usage to ensure compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and suggest enhancements or changes to maximize the EMR’s effectiveness.
- Assist Hospital EMR users in running reports on patient statistics and EMR data.
- Gather, write up, prioritize and track EMR enhancement requests, and work with the CURE EMR Development team to deliver new features that meet these requirements, and then train EMR users in their use.
Education, Experience, And Skills Requirements
- Bachelor’s or associate’s degree in a healthcare field, or information technology.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working in the Healthcare field or as an IT analyst.
- Experience implementing an EMR or similar Healthcare system is strongly preferred; Open MRS experience is a plus.
- Evidence of continuing education, such as certifications, is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of healthcare best practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong knowledge of security best practices in managing electronic medical records.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to establish priorities and proceed to meet objectives with minimal supervision.
- Ability to manage projects across internal teams, and external contractors and vendors.
- Ability to travel extensively throughout Africa and to the Philippines (approximately 75%).
In addition, all candidates should be familiar with CURE’s Statement of Faith and will be required to agree with the declarations of the Statement of Faith to be considered for this position.
