Medical Officer
- Thika Hospital
- Permanent
- 28, Oct 2024
- Healthcare
Purpose Statement
Our purpose is to enable and maintain health.
Mission
To provide high quality care that exceeds our clients’ expectations.
Job Description
POSITION: MEDICAL OFFICER
TYPE: PERMANENT
DEPARTMENT: MEDICAL SERVICES
REPORTS TO: UNIT MANAGER
Job Objective/ Purpose:
Provide professional and compassionate medical treatment, care and services by ensuring patient review and treatment in line with Avenue Healthcare’s policies, procedures and standards, and medical standards and practices.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Work with the Clinical team to navigate patients through the treatment journey, providing appropriate consultation, reviews and referral to specialists, and undertake clinical procedures per training, in line with the hospital policies.
2. Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out, interpretation of the results, and ensuring accurate, and clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
3. Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, updates of progress to the patient and the next of kin, and discharges.
4. Champion evidence-based practice and continuous skill improvement by attending and Facilitating CMEs to colleagues to build capacity to provide care.
5. Actively participate in clinical quality initiatives including, morbidity and mortality meetings, maintaining and enforcing infection control standards, and ensuring patients’ safety following the IPSGs, Incident reporting, RCAs and QIPs.
6. Ensure proper and effective drug administration and management as per policy and procedures.
7. Ensure the Unit is financially viable, and demonstrates growth by managing costs, ensuring proper pre-authorization, timely, accurate billing of drugs and services, and monitoring patient limits.
8. Ensure that Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies are adhered to, including preventing, detecting, and reporting any fraud or criminal activities, and Implementing audit recommendations.
9. Ensure adequate knowledge of and compliance to all Avenue Healthcare policies, procedures, and systems, especially policies pertaining to the provision of medical services i.e. Admission & discharge, reporting, equipment and supplies, etc.
10. Adhere to Government and respective professional standards of care and treatment of patients as guided by the KMPDC.
11. Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.Person Specification
· A medical degree (MBChB) from a recognized Institution·
· a Certificate of Registration and a Valid practicing license from the KMPDC
· A Valid certification in BLS, ACLS.
· 2+ years’ post registration work experience.
· Customer focus and results oriented
· Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
· Highly responsive, ethical and responsible