Clinical Officer at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Objective of the Position:

Organizing and ensuring medical consultations to the target population providing treatment to patients within the scope of his/her medical competencies and referring them when appropriate, according to MSF protocols, procedures and the universal hygiene standards in order to guarantee quality and efficiency of the service provided.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

She/he will perform the following main tasks, among others:

• Ensuring the implementation and standardization of MSF clinical policies, tools, and hygiene protocols in order to minimize clinical risks and to guarantee the quality of patient care management. Promoting and maintaining confidentiality regarding all patient cases and records.
• Implementing diagnosis, prescription and prevention procedures that fall under the scope of his/her competencies applying medical knowledge, asking appropriate questions to patients and following protocols in force as well as using laboratory services when necessary, in order to ensure a correct implementation of the medical treatments and to refer patients when appropriate.
• Participating in the planning and supervision, in close coordination with other supervisors, the HR processes (sizing, staff shifts, recruitment, training, evaluation, development and communication) of the team in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required, improve people triage capabilities, their motivation and commitment and their active participation in teaching the targeted population on therapeutic and preventive protocols.
• Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.list item
• In cases of emergency, carrying out first aid care and treatment according to protocols in order to reduce mortality rates
• Recording in the individual patient’s card and registration books, all performed medical activities (drugs prescribed, lab results, vaccination status, epidemiological activity, doses, etc.) keeping data traceability in order to ensure patients treatment continuity.
• Participating in data collection and reporting when required
• Knowing and implementing Patient Therapeutic Education (PTE), i.e. keeping contact with all patients, providing them information regarding their health state and responding to their questions.
• Knowing and promoting the proper application of Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Kit and Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV) protocol.
• Induction of clinical team hired locally on MSF medical procedures/ protocols
• In collaboration with the NAM, support all E-prep related activities.
• Lead/perform daily ward rounds/follow-up to monitor patient’s condition in IPD set up and Capacity building of clinical team when called upon. In an Outreach/MC set up, lead/perform/supervise medical consultation and responsible for Capacity building of clinical team.

Qualifications & Requirements:

Education:

• Essential clinical officer diploma / Further specialisation in related topics is desirable (nutrition, Infectious diseases, vaccination)

Experience:

• Desirable previous clinical supervision experience of at least one year,
• 2 years relevant experience working in humanitarian organization in emergency response/intervention
• MSF experience is an added advantage (previous experience in emergency interventions as Clinician and/or in Management role)

Skills/ Competences:

• Results and Quality Orientation L2/ Teamwork and Cooperation L2 / Behavioural Flexibility L2/ Commitment to MSF Principles L2 / Stress Management L3

Knowledge:

• Computer literate

Language:

• Proficiency in written and oral English & Kiswahili.

Applicants MUST be Kenyan nationals and have the necessary statutory documents (ID, NSSF, NHIF and KRA PIN certificate). Candidates meeting the above qualifications are requested to ONLY submit a motivation letter and an updated curriculum vitae as a single file (in pdf-format), mentioning on the subject email line “CLINICAL OFFICER”, to:

The HR Coordinator

Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium (Kenya)