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Kenya/Thika/Medical, health
Avenue Healthcare

Health care + 1 more

INPATIENT DOCTORS TEAM LEADER

Closed for applications
Thika • Kenya

Posted: Sep 22, 2026

Apply by: Sep 25, 2026

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Description

Job Objective / Purpose

Provide clinical and operational leadership for the hospital’s inpatient services and lead the inpatient Medical Officers’ team, ensuring safe, high-quality, efficient and financially sustainable care, effective patient flow and bed utilization, strong specialist and multidisciplinary coordination, and continuous improvement in clinical outcomes and patient experience.

Key Responsibilities

1. People Management

  • Supervision & performance: lead, supervise and appraise permanent and locum Medical Officers, ensuring optimal deployment.
  • Staffing & rosters: ensure adequate roster cover for Medical Officers with the MSM and HR, and coordinate specialist on-call rosters.
  • Engagement & discipline: drive staff engagement and retention; manage recognition and discipline per Avenue Healthcare policies.
  • Training & development: oversee internship; assess competencies and coordinate CPD and CME.

2. Clinical Operations

  • Patient flow: oversee day-to-day inpatient care, ensuring timely assessment, treatment, specialist review, admission, transfer and discharge; monitor length of stay, delayed discharges and unplanned ICU/HDU transfers; manage DAMA cases.
  • Multidisciplinary coordination: lead and conduct daily multidisciplinary ward rounds, coordinate care of complex patients with specialists, Nursing and support departments, and escalate delays in specialist review or interventions.
  • Patient experience: ensure clear, timely communication with patients and families; act on feedback and complaints against agreed KPIs.
  • Clinical duties: undertake clinical and on-call duties as required, and support Medical Officers in complex, deteriorating and high-risk cases.

3. Clinical Quality & Patient Safety

  • Governance & risk: ensure safe, protocol-compliant care (IPC, medication safety, patient identification); ensure timely incident reporting and investigation; participate in clinical governance committees, RCAs, CAPAs and QIPs.
  • Mortality & morbidity: ensure inpatient deaths are documented, reported and escalated, and M&M recommendations are implemented.
  • Standards & documentation: develop and review inpatient protocols and clinical pathways; ensure complete, timely clinical documentation and current privileging and credentials for Medical Officers and specialists.

4. Performance & Financial Management

Monitor inpatient performance against clinical, operational, financial, quality and patient-experience indicators; provide daily and periodic performance reports to the MSM and Senior Management; track inpatient revenue and work with Finance and Insurance on justification of treatment extensions and management of care within approved insurance budgets.

5. Governance & Compliance

Ensure compliance with Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies, applicable laws, and regulatory and professional standards; participate in accreditation and audit activities and implement audit recommendations; prevent, detect and report fraud, misconduct or malpractice.

Person Specification

  • Bachelor’s degree in medical science
  • Valid Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) licence
  • Updated BLS, ACLS/ATLS certificate
  • At least 3 years’ post-internship experience, including clinical leadership and supervision of clinical teams
  • Postgraduate qualification in healthcare management, leadership or a related field
  • Strong communication and multidisciplinary collaboration skills; patient-focused and results-oriented
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Medical, healthHealth care, medicalMid-levelKenya

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