Medical Doctor at Outreach Medical Services

Job Overview

Location
Lagos, Lagos
Job Type
Full Time
Date Posted
2 years ago

Additional Details

Job ID
56390
Job Views
97

Job Description



Responsibilities


Provide Healthcare Services as follows:



  • Urgent medical services (including resuscitation, stabilization and assessment and diagnosis, treatment and referral as necessary);

  • Assess the urgency and severity of presenting problems through history taking, examination and investigation.

  • Recommending and, where appropriate, undertaking treatment options and carrying out/referring for appropriate interventions and procedures, including but not limited to prescribing, minor surgery and other general practice procedures, counselling, psychological interventions, advising and education.

  • Referral for diagnostic, therapeutic and support services as required.


Provide timely clinical and culturally appropriate health services through:



  • Ongoing health and development assessment and advice.

  • Appropriate evidence based screening, risk assessment and early detection of illness, disease and disability.

  • Use of recall and reminder systems and referral, as appropriate, to national screening programs.

  • Interventions to assist people to reduce or change risky and harmful lifestyle behavior.

  • Family planning services, provision of contraceptive advice and sexual health services.

  • Ensure Immunization programs are available to the practice population.

  • Working with public health providers in the prevention and control of communicable diseases for individuals and families/whanau and reporting to relevant public health providers.

  • Ongoing care and support for people with chronic and terminal conditions to reduce deterioration, increase independence and reduce suffering linking, where relevant, with appropriate service providers.


Coordination of care:



  • Coordinating an individual’s rehabilitation process and participating where appropriate in providing recovery orientated services to restore normal functioning;

  • Developing collaborative working relationships with community health services and non-Government public health providers.

  • Establishing links with a range of primary and secondary health care providers and developing initiatives to enable patient centric, coordinated care that meets the needs of individuals and their family.

  • All patient consultations must be accurately recorded in the clinical patient notes within 24 hours of seeing the patient.


Improve patient health and experience through:



  • Health Promotion.

  • Health education, counselling and information provision about how to improve health and prevent disease and interventions or treatments that treat risk factors.

  • Professional liaison with other health professionals is maintained-

  • All staff are informed, as appropriate, about anything that they should be aware of regarding a patient, or regarding the internal workings of the practice.

  • Ongoing CME is maintained at least at the level required to maintain ongoing accreditation through the maintenance of professional standards.

  • Staff and team meetings are attended as requested.

  • Any other duty that may assigned.


Education and Licenses



  • Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree qualification

  • Be a Medical Doctor who is registered and licensed with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigerian (MDCN).

  • At least Two (2) years of post NYSC experience in a hospital.

  • Work schedule is based on a monthly roaster released before the 1st of every month.


Requirements & Qualifications:



  • Ability to think and act strategically and to articulate a clear sense of direction and vision.

  • Strong ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

  • Collaborative working style to promote strong partnerships.

  • Able to encourage an organisational culture that promotes clinical engagement in decision-making processes.

  • Appropriate clinical skills.

  • Be willing to learn.


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