Medical Officer - Trauma & Emergency

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the Clinical team to navigate patients through emergency treatment, providing appropriate assessment, stabilization, diagnosis, and management, and undertake clinical procedures per training, in line with the hospital policies
  
• 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.
  
• Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, updates of progress to the patient and the next of kin, and discharges.
  
• Champion evidence based practice and continuous skill improvement by attending and Facilitating CMEs to colleagues to build capacity to provide care.
  
• Actively participate in clinical quality initiatives including, morbidity and mortality meetings, maintaining and enforcing infection control standards, ensuring patients safety following the IPSGs, Incident reporting, RCAs and QIPs.
  
• Ensure proper and effective drug administration and management as per policy and procedures.
  
• 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.
  

Person Specification

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from a recognized Institution·
  
• Postgraduate training in Emergency Medicine is preferred
  
• a Certificate of Registration and a Valid practicing license from the KMPDC
  
• A Valid certification in BLS, ACLS, ATLS and PALS
  
• 2+ years’ post-internship experience in a busy emergency department
  
• Customer focus and results oriented
  
• Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
  
• Highly responsive, ethical and responsible