Position: Resident Physician
Overview
Avenue Healthcare is one of the leading private healthcare groups
in East Africa running 3 Hospitals, and 13 clinics across Kenya, and a Homecare
business. With over 25 years in the healthcare industry, Avenue Healthcare runs
300 hospital beds with over 1,000 staff members, and more than 400 specialists
and serves over 400,000 patients annually, offeringprimary, secondary, and
tertiary.
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Position |
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Resident
Physician |
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Department |
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Medical
Services |
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Reports to |
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Medical
Services Manager |
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Location |
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Parklands
Hospital |
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No. of Posts |
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1 |
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Application Deadline |
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2023-01-27 |
Job Objective/Purpose
To provide overall
clinical leadership and governance as well as clinical care in the department
of clinical medicine.
Key Responsibilities
1.Conduct Physician outpatient clinics in line with the hospital schedules and attend to both walk-in and referred patients.
2. Attend to all patients
who require physician review within hospital standard operating procedures,
national and internationally guidelines.
3. Conducting timely ward
rounds/patient reviews for all internal medicine patients in the hospital, in line
with the hospital standard operating procedures, national, and international
treatment guidelines.
4. Accurate and clear
documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and
management.
5. Provide clarity of
investigations to be carried out and interpretation of the results and ensure
update to the patients and the next of kin.
6. Facilitate patient
admissions, necessary consents, and discharges.
7. Counsel clients on
treatment and compliance to treatment (patient and family) while ensuring their
participation in decision making in their management.
8. Carry out procedures
and surgical interventions as per authorized/licensed privileges while ensuring
high quality of care/services and safety of patients.
9. Conduct family conferences
in line with hospital standard operating procedures
10. Participate in
morbidity and mortality audits and meetings.
11. Participation in
incident reporting, root cause analysis and Quality Improvement Plan
12. Participate in the
continuous review and improvement of departmental standard operating procedures
13. Facilitate Continuous
Medical Education, mentorship, and skills training to colleagues
14. Acquiring new skills
on best practices and proactively facilitate implementation.
15. Maintain a positive
work attitude and foster teamwork.
16. Always maintain
patient privacy and confidentiality.
17. Ensure patient
satisfaction through quality of care, communication, feedback and escalation
and demonstrate follow-up and improvement.
Personal Specifications
- Be
a holder of a Bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery
- Be
a holder of Masters in internal Medicine
- Specialist
recognition in internal medicine
- Fellowship
in Cardiology/endocrinology/Nephrology
- Minimum
of 3 years of relevant working experience.
- Customer
focused and with excellent communication
- Results
oriented and research skills
- Excellent
interpersonal and a team player
How to Apply
Application documents (CV and Certificates) must
be emailed to vacancies@avenuehealthcare.com with the job position you are applying for as
the subject of the email by 27th January 2023
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Avenue Healthcare
is an Equal Opportunity Employer
