Has overall responsibility for delivery of quality primary and secondary health care ensuring clinical practices that guarantee high-quality clinical outcomes; providing supervision and advice on clinical activities, including both outpatient and inpatient services, ward rounds, and surgical interventions; promoting a culture of learning and keeping up up-to-date on diagnostic and treatment practices.
Ensures and/or leads teams to conduct needs assessments and clinical studies and surveys as appropriate and with adherence to national and international clinical ethics.
Ensures that clinical cases that require treatment beyond the hospital’s capacity are referred to a higher service in a timely and professional fashion.
Develops and implements strategies to ensure that staff comply with quality assurance guidelines; monitors service quality and for investigating incidents and complaints in the hospital.
Chairs meetings of the hospital medical management team.
Together with clinical heads of departments, provide leadership in the formulation, implementation, and review of and compliance with all internal standard operating procedures (SOPs) and treatment protocols; ensures adherence at all levels in the facility with regulatory standards and adherence to appropriate medical waste management and infection control practices and protocols.
Together with the pharmacy head of department, holds the final authority for quantifying pharmaceutical needs and ordering all medical drugs and consumables within the approved budget and procedures.
Represents and manages the relationship and communication between the hospital and health authorities and with local and international donors. Ensures that reports tied to donor contracts and/or MOU are completed timely and with a high level of detail and quality to ensure clarity, compliance, and transparency, and professionally presented.
Promote the use and internal consumption of collected data within the facility to inform decisions impacting patient care, financial management, and clinical outcomes.
Managing the day-to-day operations of the clinical aspect of the hospital ensuring that all departments are fully and comprehensive staffed and liaising with and supervising all clinical departments and medical and staff to ensure delivery of medical services of high quality.
Implementing and facilitating channels of communication within medical and nonmedical staff to ensure that the hospital delivers high-quality medical services in a harmonious manner, following a team approach, reflecting compassion and commitment.
Together with other officers, organize and facilitate capacity-building sessions through mentoring, coaching, in-service trainings, and continuing medical education (CME).
With the department heads, conduct periodic appraisals; performance reviews of subordinates. Ensures that all medical staff in contact with patients are licensed by their respective professional body; that the licenses are up to date and that a record of such license is kept in the staff personnel.
Facilitates the sustainability of hospital operations via the development of public/private partnerships, collaboration with development partners, research and health and learning institutions in country and abroad.
Represent the hospital in critical stakeholder meetings with donors other local organizations.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
A minimum of five years post-NYSC work experience.