Job Openings at Kenya Red Cross Society

Key Responsibilities.

• Implement community health strategy approach and ensure creation of health demand at the community.
• Carry out disease surveillance and response activities at the hospital and community level.
• Conduct public health sanitary and hygiene inspections at the hospital and community and develop reports for timely response.
• Capacity build, mentor and supervise community health workforce.
• Develop, maintain and monitor infection prevention measures and guidelines for the hospital.
• Conduct and supervise weekly and monthly community engagement activities like community dialogue and action days.
• Take a lead role in the event of disease outbreaks and ensure adherence to public health prevention measures.
• Supervise and conduct mass immunization campaigns for vaccine preventable diseases.
• Plan, supervise and conduct community health outreaches and create awareness on emerging public health issues at the community level.
• Represent the society in attending public health coordination meetings, both internal and interagency meetings.
• Contribute to effective program reporting.
• Conduct any other relevant duties assigned by the supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience   

• Bachelor’s Degree in Community Development, Environmental Health, Human Ecology or equivalent qualifications with certificate in project management
• Over three (3)  years’ experience in planning, implementing and evaluating community-based programs in emergency/relief context
• Voluntary working experience
• Technical and other Competences
• Strong communication skills: oral, written and presentation skills.
• Have insight into various public health issues
• Should be a team player and culturally sensitive.
• Demonstrated proficiency in computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and utilization of the internet.
• Demonstrate ability of proposal/budget making and grant management.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Strong leadership, team building, conflict resolution and ability to deliver the Society’s strategic objectives.
• Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations.

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Overall Purpose

• The medical officer is a general practitioner, appropriately qualified and registered medical professional with knowledge and skills to provide personal, family and community orientated comprehensive primary and secondary health care services to individuals. MO is responsible for providing patient-centred, culturally appropriate, and individual holistic care to a defined population.

Duties and Responsibilities

SCOPE OF THE ROLE:

• Responsible for provide medical officer services to all patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILIITES

• Review program activities and priorities on a regular basis updating the HSC on gaps and/or provide recommendations on how to improve quality of services
• Attend to urgent medical services including resuscitation, stabilization and assessment and diagnosis, treatment and referral as necessary
• Assess the urgency and severity of presenting problems through history taking, examination and investigation.
• Recommending and, where appropriate, undertaking treatment options and carrying out/referring for appropriate interventions and procedures, including but not limited to prescribing, minor surgery and other general practice procedures, counselling, psychological interventions, advising and education.
• Provide timely clinical and culturally appropriate health services through appropriate evidence-based screening, risk assessment and early detection of illness, disease and disability.
• Working with public health providers in the prevention and control of communicable diseases for individuals and families.
• Provide ongoing care and support for people with chronic and terminal conditions to reduce deterioration, increase independence and reduce suffering linking, where relevant, with appropriate service providers.
• Comply with established health and safety policies with regard to handling of instruments, storage of drugs and disposal of sharps and other potentially dangerous equipment and substances.
• Liaise with nursing staff regularly to check on patient progress, or more frequently if their condition necessitates.
• To see patients at the request of nurses in charge and carry out examinations of patients.
• Supervise the daily clinical management of all patients in conjunction with the nurse team leaders and attend all post-operative patients on day of operation and every day following.
• Conduct daily ward rounds in the hospital, and regular reviews of in-patients where necessary.
• Ensure patient management is in line with the set MOH, WHO and NACADA guidelines and protocols.
• Conduct special outpatient clinics in the hospital on the allocated days every week i.e. SOPC, GOPC, HRC, POPC, and MOPC.
• Attend to all medical legal cases, including filling of P3 forms and attend court sessions as required.
• Attend to sexual assault survivors on a timely basis in the GBV Support Centre.
• Monitor closely the morbidity and mortality trends together with all the other health indicators in the HMIS to ensure that prompt actions are taken.

Desired competencies

• Demonstrate high levels of integrity.
• Technical skills.
• Ability to communicate.
• Report writing skills.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Professional ethics with high sense of confidentiality.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and support team success while seeking continuous learning.

Education and experience

• Over two (2) years’ experience working in refugee operations or relevant field.
• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from a recognized University
• At least two (2) years experience of working in a busy hospital
• Valid practicing license with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board