Clinical Officer at AIC Health Ministries

Position: Vacant Position (3) – Clinical Officer

Duty Station: AICHM Kalobeyei /Kakuma health center

Report to: Medical Supervisor /Coordinator.

Job description

AIC Health Ministries invites applications from experienced persons to fill the position clinical officers and candidate should ready to respond to COVID-19 pandemic. Under the guidance of an experienced clinical Officer. The job holder is expected to do consultation/diagnoses, examine patients and offer minor operations at outpatient department in AICHM Kakuma health center in Turkana West Sub-County. Her/his job is also to strengthen provision of primary Health Care activities.

Responsibilities:

• Provision of promotive, preventive, curative services to refugees and survivors of human conflict, gender based
• Perform minor surgical procedures.
• Diagnose and treat patients’ ailments at an outpatient or inpatient department in a hospital or health
• Patient stabilization and
• Providing appropriate health care services including Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI).
• Participate in carrying out needs assessment, disease surveillance, monitoring and evaluation to the set objectives in projects area of
• Provision of promotive, preventive, curative services to refugees and survivors of human
• Ensure that systems for keeping patient/client and other relevant records are well maintained
• Compiling of weekly reports and monthly reports and submitting the same to relevant bodies (AICHM & MoH).
• Planning and conduct primary health care
• Supervise and counsel staff engaged on routine patients’
• Health education to
• Conduct continuous Medical education (CME) for other staff
• Supervise the health center staff and provide staff development opportunity according to individual needs and stationary
• Provide, promote, prevent and curative health care service to the community at the static and mobile out reaches.
• Maintaining health center supplies according to standing
• Ensure working schedule (duty rota), on call, C.M.E leave and staff establishment are in place.
• Perform any other duties and responsibilities that may be assigned to you by the supervisor as deemed

Qualifications:

• Diploma in clinical medicine & surgery
• Registered by the Clinical Officers Council of Kenya
• Have a valid practicing license from Clinical Officers Council of Kenya
• Computer literate

• Knowledge of clinical medicine theory and practice
• Ability to make administrative and procedural decisions and judgments on sensitive, confidential
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible, emotional maturity and physical stamina
• Ability to lead a team, to initiate activities, delegate, manage and contribute to a team building environment
• Ability to maintain performance expectation in diverse clinical and non clinical teams, psychologically stressful environments and physically hardship conditions with limited resources.
• Commitment to the Health Sector. Vision and mission, core values statement and code of conduct
• Knowledge and Practice of universal infection prevention standards