Medical Officer at Nairobi Hospital

REF/MO/08/19

Responsibilities

Reporting to Emergency Medicine Specialist, the successful candidates will be responsible for the following amongst others:

• Initial management, stabilization and treatment of all patients.
• Rotating in various wards and clinics as assigned
• Facilitating patient admission and discharge.
• Ensuring patient referral to appropriate specialist.
• Facilitating customer complaint handling, root cause analysis and problem solving.
• Championing evidence based practice, patient centred care, service excellence and continual improvement.
• Maintaining patient confidentiality and working with professionalism.
• Undertaking clinical procedures.
• Undertaking staff clinic duties and ambulance duties.
• Participating in major disaster response.
• Facilitating Continuous Medical Education sessions and research .
• Any other duty that may be assigned from time to time
• Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
• Valid private practice and annual license
• One-year post-internship experience
• Valid certification in BLS and ACLS. Additional certification in ATLS or EPALS will be an added advantage
• Sound diagnostic skills and judgment
• Excellent problem solving and decision making skills
• Effective communication skills
• Private practice experiences an added advantage