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Resident Physician
Job Objective/Purpose
Provide overall clinical leadership and governance in the clinical medicine department while providing professional and compassionate medical treatment, care and services by ensuring patient review and treatment in line with Avenue Healthcare’s policies, procedures and standards, and medical standards and practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct Physician outpatient clinics in line with the hospital schedules, attending to all patients who require physician review within hospital procedures, and national and internationally guidelines.
- Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out, interpretation of the results, and ensuring accurate, and clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
- Ensure patient admissions, necessary consents, updates of progress to the patient and the next of kin, and Conduct timely ward rounds/patient reviews for all internal medicine patients in the hospital
- Carry out procedures and surgical interventions as per authorized/ licensed privileges while ensuring high quality of care/services and safety of patients.
- Champion evidence based practice and continuous skill improvement by Facilitating CMEs to build capacity to provide care.
- Actively participate in clinical quality initiatives including, morbidity and mortality meetings, ensuring patients safety following the IPSGs, IR, RCAs & QIPs.
- Ensure proper and effective drug administration and management as per policy and procedures.
- Ensure the Unit is financially viable, and demonstrate growth by managing costs, ensuring proper pre-authorization, timely and accurate billing, monitoring patient limits and supporting outreach activities
- Ensure that Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies are adhered to, including preventing, detecting, and reporting any fraud or criminal activities, and Implementing audit recommendations.
- Ensure adequate knowledge of and compliance to all Avenue Healthcare policies, procedures, and systems, especially policies pertaining to the provision of medical services i.e. Admission & discharge, reporting, equipment and supplies, etc.
- Adhere to Government and respective professional standards of care and treatment of patients as guided by the KMPDC.
- Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.
Personal Specifications
- MBChB and Masters in Internal Medicine from recognized Institutions
- Specialist recognition in Internal Medicine.
- Fellowship in cardiology/ endocrinology/ Nephrology is highly desirable.
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience.
- Customer focus, results oriented, highly responsive, ethical and responsible
- Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
Unit Manager, Paediatrics
Job Objective/Purpose
Planning, organizing, and coordinating all Paediatrics unit activities, ensuring the provision of patient-centrist nursing care, operational efficiency and positive patient experience, in line with the Hospital protocols and standards.
Key Responsibilities
- People Management:
- Supervise Paediatrics team in delivering individual and team targets by ensuring all nurses accurately perform their tasks, including admission, discharge, drug administration, clinical observations, IPC, and others, and lead performance appraisals.
- Prepare monthly work schedules (ROTA) and ensure efficient use of overtimes and locums.
- Provide leadership, ensuring staff development, engagement, performance, and ensure monthly staff meetings with documented evidence.
- Ensure the unit is financially viable and demonstrate growth through;
- Ensuring quality of Care & Service hence ensuring high patient retention rates by achieving high patient satisfaction rates and NPS scores.
- Managing paediatrics unit costs within budget through appropriate staffing, timely and accurate billing, incidences and consumables management.
- Supporting marketing events as needed
- Ensure proper inventory, standardization, calibration, and maintenance on all paediatrics equipment, and prudent inventory and supplies management.
- Nursing Services
- Review specific patients’ investigations, analyze, interpret, troubleshoot, and initiate immediate intervention.
- Ensure primary nurse engagement with doctors and other providers regarding patients’ plan of care with emphasis on a team-based problem-solving approach.
- Participate in formulation of, and ensure implementation of SOPs and QIPs in the unit, including enforcement of IPC standards, and observe the infection control bundles.
- Ensure all nursing protocols have been administered as per the set-out policies and guidelines, recording and reporting all sentinel incidents/ events within 24 hours using the provided tools.
- Ensuring proper and timely documentation of patient treatment, maintaining proper records, confidentiality, and ensuring handing over between shifts.
- Ensure adequate knowledge of, and compliance to all Avenue Healthcare policies, procedures, systems, especially policies pertaining to the provision of medical services.
- Ensure that Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies are adhered to, including preventing, detecting, and reporting any fraud or criminal activities, and Implementing audit recommendations.
Personal Specifications
- Diploma in Nursing (KRCHN) and/or BsN in Nursing
- Valid certification in BLS, ACLS or ATLS
- 3+ years of nursing experience and atleast 2+ years of management experience
- Customer focus and results oriented
- Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
Method of Application
Send your application to vacancies@avenuehealthcare.com