Locum Medical Officer

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Locum Medical Officer

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.