ICU Coordinator
Responsibilities
- Co-ordinates
and directs the daily patient care operations of the Critical Care Unit
- Analyses
workloads and skill requirements to meet patient care needs
- Assesses
staff competencies and makes patient care assignments
- Delegates
appropriate tasks to appropriate personnel, consistent with legal and
professional guidelines and departmental standards
- Maintains
clear communications with the Clinical Nurse Manager regarding unit needs
and/or incidents
- Serves
as a resource person on the unit
- Assists
with patient care as needed
- Identifies
appropriate internal controls for department; provides mechanisms to
monitor and enforce compliance
- Providing
second on call coverage, running of general surgery clinics with both
preoperative and post-op care plans
- Running
outpatient surgical clinics in the satellite clinics
- He
will be expected to run routine theatre lists with view to teaching as
well as increasing technical expertise at a surgical Fellow level and
engage with departmental academic activities at Tutorial fellow level
- Follow
up of residents in their external rotations
- Co-ordination
of morbidity and mortality meetings and MDT
- Ensures
the unit is well equipped with well-functioning equipment
- Prepares
the budget and ensures procurement of capital items to specifications and
adequate supplies for the unit at all times
- Carries
out performance appraisal for department staff
- Ensures the competence and
efficiency of staff in terms of knowledge, skills and attitude
- In liaison with HR
department, manage staff welfare, training and development
- Creates a work environment
that fosters high degree of personal integrity, team spirit and
outstanding performance standards
- Reports on clinical issues
to the Hospital intensivist and the DDMS inpatient as required
- Participate in quality
improvement initiatives within the department and provide reports as
required
Qualifications
- Bachelor
of Medicine and Surgery (MB ChB)
- Minimum 3 years as a Senior
Medical Officer
- Post graduate training in
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
- Minimum two years ICU
/Critical Care Experience
- Ability to train &
develop staff
- Supervisory experience
- Health Management Systems
training is desirable
- Registered with KMPDC with
a valid practicing license
How to Apply
If you are interested in
the above position and you meet the requirements listed, please send your
application together with a detailed CV, Copies of Academic Certificates, three
[3] referees and include their telephone contacts and email address to hrrecruit@materkenya.com so
as to reach us not later than 31stMarch 2023
Only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted
Please note Mater
Misericordiae Hospital does not charge any fee at any stage of our recruitment
process
