Latest Recruitment at Avenue Healthcare

Job Objective/Purpose

To evaluate and assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and nutrition health plans in accordance with established protocols and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• To conduct daily review of inpatients ‘to evaluate and assess their nutrition status.
• Screen patients for nutritional risk and initiate appropriate intervention.
• Plan and initiate medical nutrition therapy for patients if indicated by patient requirements and clinical protocol.
• Consult with physicians and other caregivers to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.
• Communicate individual nutritional care plans to other health care providers as a member of a care team.
• Coordinate recipe development and standardization and develop new menus for different vulnerable groups in the hospital. 7. Monitor food service to ensure conformance to prescribed diets and patient’s nutritional needs.
• Educate and counsel patients and families on nutritional issues and maintain updated and necessary patient education materials and nutrition references.
• Advise food service managers and organizations on sanitation, safety procedures, menu development.
• Interpret physician diet orders and modify diet according to diet patterns and patient preferences.
• Instruct patients in diet principles and restrictions per physician diet orders and document pertinent clinical information.
• Advise on substitutions if the patient is unable to eat the meal provided, per diet restrictions.
• Advise and with the support of the food service, plan between-meal nourishments for patients as necessary.
• Complete nutritional assessments on patients receiving tube feeding or parenteral nutrition and compute nutritional value of constituents when necessary.
• Complete diet histories for nutritional assessment of patients
• Evaluate appropriateness of diet order for diagnosis and recommend diet order changes as indicated.
• Prepare departmental reports.
• Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor in line with the job description.

Personal Specifications

•  BSc Food, Nutrition & Dietetics
•  Higher Diploma in Food, Nutrition & Dietetics
•  Licensed by the Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute
•  2 years’ experience.
•  Customer Focus.
•  Result Oriented.

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Job Objective/Purpose

Provide quality and comprehensive Oral Health Care and Dental Services using the most up to date techniques and equipment within the Avenue group in line with the company policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out emergency dental procedures as well as attend to nonemergency procedures. 
• Counsel patients on oral hygiene instruction and demonstrate techniques to achieve this. 
• Examine, diagnose, and treat general oral diseases.
• Educate patients and the public on preventive dental care and oral health care. 
• Record care provided in electronic health record system accurately and completely, reflecting the nature of the contact, the condition of the patient and the care or treatment provided. Complete referrals, data collections instruments and other records or documents as required. 
• Dental Implant case diagnosis, treatment and long term follow up. 
• Create treatment plans for patients with complex dental conditions, including surgery and other specialized treatments. 
• Liaise with Consultants on handling specialized cases, adequate referral, and their follow. 
• Use dental equipment and tools safely and efficiently, ensuring that all equipment is properly maintained and sterilized. 
• Supervise dental auxiliary staff to ensure application of proper technique and methods, update staff on new practices and procedure. 
• Review and develop appropriate policies and procedures for patient care to formulate best practice guidelines. 
• Ensure adequate knowledge of all Avenue policies, procedures and systems. 
• Any other duty as may be assigned from time to time by immediate supervisor in line with the job description.

Personal Specifications

•  Bachelor of Dental Surgery 
•  Registration by the Kenya Medical Practitioners & Dentists Council 
•  2 years post internship experience in general dentistry and dental implants 
•  Clinical experience in Orofacial Pain and Oral Medicine: 
•  Advanced training in ACLS/ATLS 
•  Attention to detail 
•  Result Oriented
•  Empathetic

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Job Objective/Purpose

Provide and ensure quality Kitchen/catering services within the Avenue group in line with the company policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily menu planning for the entire Hospital clientele (i.e patients, staff etc.). Establish portion sizes, test new recipes and file recipes for all new menu items in the recipe books.
• Estimate food consumption within the Hospital consumption and ensure timely requisitions of food purchases with the requisite LPOs and goods delivery notes.
• Ensure that each department/section place orders for the next day consumption based on their par stock levels.
• Ensure proper receiving, storage, and rotation of products to comply with the required HACCP standards.
• Minimize waste and maximize thorough usage of food through careful ordering, proper ordering and well-organized storage, use of required hospital recipes.
• Manages the kitchen and ensures compliance with all standards of best practices.
• Oversee catering events and may also offer culinary instruction and/or demonstrate culinary techniques.
• Review daily food consumption and be actively involved in food and Labor cost controlling.
• Review “Sensitive patients Inventory Items” sheet daily and take proper action for variance.
• Ensure proper equipment operation/maintenance.
• Attend daily departmental briefs to ensure all functions are executed accurately.
• Review and plan employees’ working schedule/rota based on operational needs, to ensure that manning levels are correct, and they are not exceeded without permission.
• Review invoices from suppliers for accuracy and ensure that ordering practices remain within budget.
• To hold monthly meetings with Sous-Chef and kitchen team to ensure smooth running of the kitchen department.
• Review “Current Inventory Report” with Sous-Chef and make a plan to use any excessive inventory items, ensure the end of the inventory is accurate and completed.
• Attend Management Meetings as required.
• Review “Financial Statement” of the month and be aware of current financial status of the kitchen operations for all factors.
• Review “Cost of Goods Sold Percentage” for the month and develop a plan to manage the food cost if COGS percentage exceeds the budget.
• To develop and monitor performance standards for kitchen staff, hold regular performance appraisals with the team, to identifying areas for development and training needs to ensure that requisite training is implemented.
• Analyze “hospital clients kitchen complaints report and develop an action plan to ensure maximum “Client Satisfaction” as well as financial result of the operation.
• Reviewing “Par Stock Level” for each item based on existing operational situation.
• To prepare and submit the required annual budgetary information and updates as required.
• To be fully aware of trends in the industry and make suggestions for improvement of the hospital catering operations.
• Menu re-engineering as and when may be required through review of existing data and trends in relation to existing food pricing.
• Participation in incident reporting, root cause analyses, clinical audit and Quality Improvement  plans as required
• Maintain a positive work attitude and foster team work.
• Ensure patient satisfaction through quality care, confidentiality, communication, feedback, escalation and demonstrated follow-up of patient’s concerns.
• Ensure that Avenue corporate governance policies are adhered to.
  • Prevent, detect and report any fraud or criminal activity
  • Timely review and implementation of audit recommendations
• Ensure adequate knowledge of all Avenue policies, procedures and systems.
• Any other duty as may be assigned from time to time by your immediate supervisor in line with the job description.

Personal Specifications

• 3+ years higher diploma in food production
• Familiar with HACCP kitchen safety procedures
• 5+ years’ experience as an Executive Chef
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Result Oriented

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Job Objective/Purpose

To ensure that high quality standards are maintained at all times in the provision of medication and medical consumables per Avenue Healthcare’s defined policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that the Pharmacy has the necessary equipment and ensure that they are in good working condition.
• All processed drug orders should be checked and counter signed by the nurse and the Pharm-Tech.
• Ensure that all insurances exclusion lists are adhered to.
• Inform the doctor on equivalent of the out-of-stock medications, document on the T-sheet/prescription and inform the nurse to follow up on counter signing by the respective doctor.
• Ensure that the Pharmacy is well stocked as per the set re-order levels. Do daily counts, spot counts, monthly stock takes and give a timely, accurate report with valid explanation on variances and expiries to the Pharmacy Manager.
• Prevention of medication errors by counter checking and verifying the prescription/ treatment sheets on doses, allergies, patient identification, right drug, legibility and give clear usage instructions.
• DDA to be dispensed as per the laid down policy, checked weekly and any discrepancies reported to the Pharmacy Manager.
• Ensure that the fridge temperatures are charted twice daily and any error reported to relevant department.
• Ensure that any issue pertaining quality is escalated to the Pharmacy Manager.
• Drugs/surgical items expiry management;
  • Check expiries of the allocated shelf and emergency trolley monthly (ensure short expiry items are replaced) and inform the Pharmacy Manager.
  • Enhance FIFO/FEFO by the use of green stickers on short expiry drugs and share the short expiry list with the doctors to assist in prescribing.
  • Document all expired drugs, quarantine and report to Pharmacy Manager for disposal as per the PPB regulations.
  • Allocate emergency trolley to ensure its well-stocked at all times and expiry managed.
• Adhere to Avenue corporate governance policies and procedures;
  • Prevent, detect and report any fraud or criminal activity.
  • Fully implement audit recommendations and attain satisfactory ratings in subsequent audits.
• Record and report all incidents/events within 24 hours using the provided tools.
• Maintain and enforce infection control standards when doing extemporaneous preparations.
• Client satisfaction;
  • Ensure client satisfaction through high quality of service, effective communication, prompt feedback and escalation of any unresolved issues to the relevant person for follow up.
  • Ensure that the standardized tool for patient satisfaction feedback is filed for measurement, follow-up and improvement.
• Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality at all times.
• Ensure adequate knowledge of all Avenue policies, procedures and systems as outlined in the HRMIS.
• Any other duty as assigned by your immediate supervisor in line with the job description.

Personal Specifications

•  A diploma in Pharmacy.
•  A valid pharmaceutical technologist license tied to Avenue Healthcare.
•  2 years’ experience.
•  Attention to detail.
•  Customer focus.