• Application Deadline:
• Position: Medical Officer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 2 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Medical / Healthcare 
  

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Provide strategic health direction to the clinic.


• Examine and record information on patients’ conditions by sensitively gathering personal information, such as family medical history.


• Gather and maintain patient information confidentially.


• Plan and prepare appropriate treatment packages for patients


• Recommend admission or referral of patients requiring additional and special care, investigation, and treatment.


• Record and monitor patient conditions during every visit, both as a tracking of past treatments/tests run and for referrals and cross-referrals with other doctors (internally and externally).


• Provide advice to patients on lifestyle and diet changes that may improve their health and prevent any illnesses/diseases.


• Liaise with other medical and non-medical staff in the clinic to ensure quality treatment and effective/efficient service delivery.


• Promote health education in conjunction with other health professionals


• Organise and coordinate preventative medical care programmes for individual patients, and presentations for clients.


• Meet targets set by the government for specific treatments such as child immunisation schedules.


• Manage resources to serve patients as effectively as possible.


• Provide the best medical advice for the patient and refer them to a specialist, such as the consultant family physician or eternal specialists, for specific conditions such as diabetic patients or newborn babies.


• Keep up-to-date with medical developments such as new drugs on the market, new treatment methods, and technological advancements to be discussed with the doctors and the Chief Medical Director.


• Discuss the development of new pharmaceutical products with the clinic’s pharmacist and accredited pharmaceutical sales representatives and give feedback to the Chief Medical Director.


• Maintain a portfolio of continuing professional development programmes by organising clinical meetings and presentations.


• Develop quality assurance procedures for clinical processes.


• Offer health promotion and prevention activities within the clinic, for example, training all medical staff to use devices such as ECG machines and diabetes monitors. 

Job Requirements

• An excellent medical degree from an accredited university


• Minimum of 2 years post medical school experience as a medical Officer


• Experience providing primary care and diagnostic services in a clinical setting.


• Ability to operate medical equipment such as the ECG machine.


• Excellent use of Microsoft Office, specifically PowerPoint, and any reporting medical software.


• Effectively and efficiently analyse data.


• Excellent presentation skills


• Ability to carry out procedures such as wound dressing, checking blood pressure, and other physical exams.


• Possess sound knowledge of the health education industry and its market.