Locum Medical Officer
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is hiring a Locum Medical Officer to deliver quality healthcare in a hospital setting in Kenya. The role involves managing patient care, supervising ward staff, conducting daily ward rounds, handling medical and surgical emergencies, and ensuring proper documentation. The position requires a medical degree, registration with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board, and at least two years of experience in a busy hospital.
- Locum medical role with IRC in Kenya
- Requires MBChB and Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board registration
- Minimum 2 years hospital experience needed
- Involves ward rounds, emergency care, and staff supervision
- Mid-level position within an international humanitarian organization
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Locum Medical Officer
IRC - International Rescue Committee
Kenya
International
Mid level
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Summary by Impactpool
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Locum Medical Officer to provide quality health care in a hospital setting. The role involves managing patient care, supervising staff, and ensuring effective hospital operations. Responsibilities include conducting ward rounds, handling emergencies, and maintaining proper documentation. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, be registered with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board, and possess at least two years of experience in a busy hospital environment.
Candidate Requirements:
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, MBChB
Registered with Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board
Minimum 2 years of working experience in a busy hospital
Able to work with minimal supervision
Flexible and a team player
Computer literacy in MS Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
The Locum Medical Officer will offer quality health care to all patients in the hospital and work closely, as the team leader with nurses, staff in lab, pharmacy and health post to ensure all services are offered.
Key Responsibilities
- Program Management:
- Ensure all patients are attended to daily in the hospital.
- Ensure the hospital is running effectively in all the wards
- Attend to all emergencies, both medical and surgical.
- Manage and supervise all the staff in respective wards.
- Ensure proper documentation of patient care in patient files.
- Conduct daily ward rounds in respective wards, i.e. maternity, adult, pediatrics, stabilization center and isolation wards.
- Quality control by verifying case management is as per protocol/guidelines.
- Ensuring that department needs are documented and submitted to the MOIC for budgeting
- Providing weekly updates of the ward status, trends and needs including mitigation measures where surges are forecasted.
- Performance management of the department by setting department level targets, implementing activities to meet targets.
- Managing and escalating any issues that arise from the departments
- Carry out all elective and emergency obstetric/Gynecological cases in theatre.
- Conduct all elective and emergency surgical cases in theatre.
- Carry out special clinics in the hospital on weekly basis i.e., SOPC, GOPC, HRC, MOPC and POPC.
- Attend to all medical legal cases, i.e. Filling of P3 forms and attend court sessions as deem fit.
- Ensure survivors with sexual assault cases are promptly attended in GBV centre.
- Ensure all referrals both Emergency and Elective, to secondary and tertiary care centers are done promptly.
- Human Resource:
- Be a team leader in the hospital and in the care of patients.
- Supervision of the nursing in charge of the department
- Developing and managing leave plans and duty rotas for the department
- Managing disciplinary cases that arise from the departments with support from the NOIC, HR and management.
- Attend the Clinical staff meetings and give program updates as required.
- Manage the Clinical Services Program in acting capacity when the Health Manager is not in office
- Co-ordinate and Participate the Continuous Medical Education (CME) for staff and give updates on care of patients.
- Program Activities:
- Conduct daily ward rounds in respective wards.
- Be the doctor on call on weekly basis, 24hrs/7 days.
- Carry out all emergency surgical/obstetric cases in theatre.
- Conduct all special clinics on weekly basis, SOPC, GOPC, HRC, POPC, MOPC.
- Properly document patient diagnosis, plans of treatment and care on patient files.
- Attend morning handover meetings and give feedback on patient care.
- Carry out all elective surgical and gynecological cases.
- Attend to all medical legal issues, fill P3 forms and attend court sessions.
- Lead in death audits of the department in a timely manner, action points documented and followed up
- Heading the quality improvement team for the department and ensuring action plans are completed.
- Fill the referral forms for both emergency and elective referrals.
- Reporting and Coordination:
- Information sharing: Regularly share and discuss timely, accurate and relevant information with communities about; access and eligibility to services, expected staff behavior, and community feedback, safeguarding mechanisms and how to use them.
- Feedback Collection and reporting: Promote the formal feedback mechanisms to capture, monitor, respond to, and act on feedback and complaints from communities by documenting feedback received from the community through informal interactions, observations, and focus group discussions. Reporting community needs, preferences, and feedback to managers and client responsiveness focal persons.
- Others:
- Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor
- Key Result Areas
- Improved quality of care in the wards/hospital
- Quality emergency obstetric care in maternity.
- Prompt referral of patients.
- Proper documentation of patient care.
- Prompt management of outbreaks
- Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, MBChB.
- Registered with Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board.
- Minimum 2 yrs of working experience in a busy hospital.
- Able to work with minimal supervision.
- Required Experience & Competencies:
- Be flexible, a team player and result oriented.
- Be ready to work in challenging and multitasking environment.
- Computer literacy in MS Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, is desired.
- Professional Standards:
- All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in
- IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct
- . Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on
- Safeguarding
- , Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.
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- Summary by Impactpool
- The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Locum Medical Officer to provide quality health care in a hospital setting. The role involves managing patient care, supervising staff, and ensuring effective hospital operations. Responsibilities include conducting ward rounds, handling emergencies, and maintaining proper documentation. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, be registered with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board, and possess at least two years of experience in a busy hospital environment.
- Candidate Requirements:
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, MBChB
- Registered with Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board
- Minimum 2 years of working experience in a busy hospital
- Able to work with minimal supervision
- Flexible and a team player
- Computer literacy in MS Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
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