Medical Officer - Trauma & Emergency

Job Title: Emergency Medicine Physician

Job 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 hospital policies.
• Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out, interpret results, and ensure accurate, clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
• Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, updates of progress to the patient and 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 patient safety following the IPSGs, incident reporting, RCAs, and QIPs.
• Ensure proper and effective drug administration and management as per policy and procedures.
• Ensure adherence to Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies, 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 those pertaining to medical services (e.g., admission & discharge, reporting, equipment and supplies).
• Adhere to Government and respective professional standards of care and treatment of patients as guided by the KMPDC.
• Perform any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from a recognized institution.
• Postgraduate training in Emergency Medicine is preferred.
• Certificate of Registration and a valid practicing license from the KMPDC.
• Valid certification in BLS, ACLS, ATLS, and PALS.

Experience

• 2+ years of post-internship experience in a busy emergency department.

Skills & Competencies

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