About Avenue Healthcare

Avenue Healthcare is one of the leading private healthcare groups in East Africa running 3 Hospitals, and 16 Medical Centres across Kenya, and a Home-care business. With over 25 years in the healthcare industry, Avenue Healthcare runs 300 hospital beds with over 1,000 staff members, and more than 400 specialists and serves over 400,000 patients annually, offering primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare services.

Job Objective/ Purpose:

Provide and ensure quality Neurosurgeon Services within the Avenue group in line with the company policies and procedures.

Main Responsibilities

• Conduct Neurosurgeon outpatient clinics in line with the hospital schedules and attend to both walk-in and referred patients.
• Attend to all patients who require Neurosurgeon services in theater within hospital standard operating procedures, national and internationally guidelines.
• Conducting timely ward rounds/patient reviews for all general surgery patients in the hospital, in line with the hospital standard operating procedures, national, and international treatment guidelines.
• Accurate and clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
• Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out and interpretation of the results and ensure update to the patients and the next of kin.
• Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, and discharges.
• Counsel clients on treatment and compliance to treatment (patient and family) while ensuring their participation in decision making in their management.
• Carry out procedures and surgical interventions as per authorized/licensed privileges while ensuring high quality of care/services and safety of patients.
• Conduct family conferences in line with hospital standard operating procedures.
• Participate in morbidity and mortality audits and meetings.
• Participation in incident reporting, root cause analysis and Quality Improvement Plan
• Participate in the continuous review and improvement of departmental standard operating procedures.
• Facilitate Continuous Medical Education, mentorship, and skills training to colleagues.
• Acquiring new skills on best practices and proactively facilitate implementation.
• Maintain a positive work attitude and foster teamwork.
• Always maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.
• Ensure patient satisfaction through quality of care, communication, feedback and escalation and demonstrate follow-up and improvement.
• Ensure sustainability and growth by:
• Increasing the quality and diversity of services offered in the facility.
• supporting outreach activities.
• support revenue cycle management through ensuring pre-authorization, billing, and accurately filling of all necessary claims' documentation.
• maintaining awareness about credit limits.
• Ensure that Avenue corporate governance policies are adhered to.
• Prevent, detect and report any fraud or criminal activity
• timely review and implementation of audit recommendations
• Ensure adequate knowledge of all Avenue policies, procedures and systems as outlined in the HRMIS.
• Any other duty as assigned by your immediate supervisor in line with the job description.

Person Specification

• Specialist recognition in Neurosurgeon
• Masters in Neurosurgeon
• Bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery
• Laparoscopic Surgery Training & Experience is and added advantage
• 3 years' experience

• Conduct Neurosurgeon outpatient clinics in line with the hospital schedules and attend to both walk-in and referred patients.
• Attend to all patients who require Neurosurgeon services in theater within hospital standard operating procedures, national and internationally guidelines.
• Conducting timely ward rounds/patient reviews for all general surgery patients in the hospital, in line with the hospital standard operating procedures, national, and international treatment guidelines.
• Accurate and clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
• Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out and interpretation of the results and ensure update to the patients and the next of kin.
• Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, and discharges.
• Counsel clients on treatment and compliance to treatment (patient and family) while ensuring their participation in decision making in their management.
• Carry out procedures and surgical interventions as per authorized/licensed privileges while ensuring high quality of care/services and safety of patients.
• Conduct family conferences in line with hospital standard operating procedures.
• Participate in morbidity and mortality audits and meetings.
• Participation in incident reporting, root cause analysis and Quality Improvement Plan
• Participate in the continuous review and improvement of departmental standard operating procedures.
• Facilitate Continuous Medical Education, mentorship, and skills training to colleagues.
• Acquiring new skills on best practices and proactively facilitate implementation.
• Maintain a positive work attitude and foster teamwork.
• Always maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.
• Ensure patient satisfaction through quality of care, communication, feedback and escalation and demonstrate follow-up and improvement.
• Ensure sustainability and growth by: Increasing the quality and diversity of services offered in the facility, supporting outreach activities, support revenue cycle management through ensuring pre-authorization, billing, and accurately filling of all necessary claims' documentation, maintaining awareness about credit limits.
• Ensure that Avenue corporate governance policies are adhered to: Prevent, detect and report any fraud or criminal activity, timely review and implementation of audit recommendations.
• Ensure adequate knowledge of all Avenue policies, procedures and systems as outlined in the HRMIS.
• Any other duty as assigned by your immediate supervisor in line with the job description.

• Laparoscopic Surgery Training & Experience

• Specialist recognition in Neurosurgeon
• Masters in Neurosurgeon
• Bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery