Jobs at Access Afya

About the Role

Access Afya is hiring a full time Clinical Officer in Nairobi Kenya. The Clinical Officer will provide care to patients at both Access Afya clinics, and work with the clinical team to maintain high clinical standards and smooth running of the facilities.

What you will do:

• Provide professional advice and medical treatment for primary health care, general practice, and emergency situations as dictated by prevailing protocols and scope of practice.
• Follow Access Afya and client protocols, procedures and practices.
• Maintain clinic in accordance with Access Afya and prevailing standards.
• Participate in community outreach programs
• Keep clear and accurate documentation using electronic and paper records.
• Participate in decision-making and apply management principles in day-to-day activities.
• Provide regular feedback to entire Access Afya team on treatment, trends, challenges and ideas for improvement in service delivery.

You are:

• Current registration and license to practice with the Clinical Officer’s Council.
• Innovative, dynamic, energetic, and self-motivated
• At least 2 years’ experience working in a quality care delivery setting
• Passion working with underserved communities.
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills.
• Ability to work autonomously or in a team with a high attention to detail.
• Excellent work ethic, proactive, punctual, reliable and flexibility to work long hours when required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, and general computer & technology literacy. Familiarity with computer based health information system and interest in heath technologies preferred.
• Willingness to work in isolated and challenging environment.
• Ability to perform a range of minor surgeries will be an advantage.

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product designer and platform engineers in translating product designs into functional and usable product features.
• Write readable and testable code inline with company-wide coding style configured in linters.
• Write automated tests for all code written with good coverage percentage. Improve coverage over time for code with less coverage
• Ensure new features are continuously shipped. Automate this over time with appropriate CI/ CD tooling.
• Monitor deployed product for errors and act appropriately to make sure all deployed features are not crashing in production. Fix errors in production as soon as they are identified.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to make sure platform services meet product needs.
• Participate in weekly brainstorming sessions focused on improving business services, product and engineering.

Job Specifications/ Qualifications

• B.Sc. Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics, or related experience in Software Engineering
• Experience writing JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience working with GraphQL and RESTful APIs
• Experience building applications in React using custom tooling for SPAs or related SSR frameworks.
• Experience using application state management tools (redux preferred) or alternative but performant approaches.
• Experience building Progressive Web Apps in React and implementation of related caching strategies as needed for various features of the app.
• Experience build API in REST or GraphQL (preferred)
• Growth mindset. See challenges as learning opportunities and have a can-do attitude