About Avenue Healthcare

Avenue Healthcare is one of the leading private healthcare groups in East Africa running 3 Hospitals, and 15 clinics across Kenya, and a Homecare 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.

POSITION: MEDICAL OFFICER (TRAUMA & EMERGENCY)

TYPE: PERMANENT

LOCATION: THIKA

DEPARTMENT: MEDICAL SERVICES

REPORTS TO: UNIT MANAGER

Job Objective/ Purpose:

Provide professional and compassionate emergency medical treatment and care to patients presenting with acute illness or injuries by ensuring patient review and treatment in line with Avenue Healthcare’s policies, procedures and standards, and medical standards and practices.

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

• 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.

• Customer focus and results oriented
• Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
• Highly responsive, ethical and responsible

• 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