Medical Officer at Kenya Airways

Brief Description        

Working in close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, the role holder provides and clinical care to ensure desired patient care outcomes, high quality service and best practice standards. Promotes global practices on workplace health promotion. Support various medical functions supported by KQ Health as per allocation by the supervisor.

Detailed Description        

• Undertake day-to-day clinical duties, e.g. walk-in clinic, emergencies, pre-placement and periodic medical examinations.
• Recommend admissions and referral of all patients where specialized services are required.
• Performminor surgical procedures in the facility.
• Followup on all laboratory or radiological investigations to ensure that they aredone in a timely manner.
• Managethe chronic care health program.
• Participate in addressing work environment and occupational health issues.
• Provide and coordinate emergency care at the facility.
• Ensure accurate capture of medical information and provide data analysis for management.
• Ensure optimal implementation of clinic governance standards at Pride Clinic
• Medico-administrative
• Advise organization on fitness to work, sick leave, and medical evacuations as per Kenya Airways protocol.
• Participate and coordinate internal Continuous Medical Education (CME) programs.
• Preparemedical reports for patients as may be required by the payers.
• Keep abreast with developments in diagnostics and therapeutics in the market and adopts accordingly.
• Administration on medical clearances (fitness for work), sick leave, medical evacuations/repatriations; eligibility to a disability benefit, service incurred compensation claims, and medical insurance claims.
• Participate in quality improvement programs and Hospital Committees as appointed from time to time.
• Ensure adherence to claims management process to avoid rejections on clinical grounds.
• Manage the average spend per patient based on the guidelines issued by each of the payers.
• Organization
• Partner with internal stakeholders in medical business support and continuity
• Drives workplace health promotion practices
• Support delivery of Passenger Medical Services and Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response at JKIA and across KQ networks.

Job Requirements        

• Bachelors ’Degree in in Medicine & Surgery (MBChB) from a recognized university.
• A valid registration certificate and annual retention from the Kenya Medical Practitioners & Dentists Council.
• Training in Acute Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Acute Trauma Life Support (ATLS).
• Occupational health certification and aviation health experience will be an added advantage.
• Experience handling the COVID-19 pandemic in an organization setting is required.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Medical Officer Post internship in a level IV facility or above

Additional Details        

• Excellent negotiation, listening and problem-solving skills as well as excellent communication skills with ability to effectively present information to clients, public groups, employees, management.
• Ability to handle pressure and difficult situations with resilience, calmly and effectively.
• Must be a person of unquestionable integrity.
• Business acumen; Flexibility and agility
• Available for medical travel