Medical Officers
Job Description
The Medical Officers’ job
exists to provide general medical services to patients in the hospital, ensure
provision of quality and timely medical services and quality patient care.
Duties and
Responsibilities
- Participate
in the strategic planning of the division in collaboration with other
medical staff in the unit for significant impact on the performance or
business outcome of the hospital and its sub functions.
- Attend
to patients’ medical needs, diagnose their illnesses, and prescribe
medicines and other therapeutic interventions in consultation rooms at the
hospital.
- Follow-up
on and observe the clinical conditions and progress of patients in the
wards
- Provide
medical advice, counselling, health education and control measures to
patients in the hospital to prevent spread of diseases and injuries.
- Work
with other medical staff to solve single or multiple medical issues and/or
participate in performing extensive surgical operations in the hospital.
- Implement
best practice clinical and patient care related policies and procedures in
the outpatient division of the hospital.
- efer
outpatients to the appropriate specialized clinics and medical consultants
within the hospital for further diagnosis, treatment, and management of
their medical conditions.
- Provide
quality emergency medical services to patients in the emergency unit of
the hospital.
- Implement
the hospital’s culture of team-base, fact-base and patient-base and work
towards achievement of the hospital Vision.
- Perform
any other duties as may be assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
and Experience
- Bachelor
of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from a recognized institution.
- Registration
with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council.
- Valid
Practice License.
- Basic
life support and Advanced Cardiac life support certification.
- Proficiency
in computer applications.
- At
least two years of working experience as a Medical Officer in a busy
hospital.
How to Apply
