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  • Full Time
  • Kenya

Médecins Sans Frontières

Main purpose

 

Organizing
and ensuring medical consultations to the target population providing treatment
to patients within the scope of his/her medical competencies and referring them
when appropriate, according to MSF protocols, procedures and
the universal hygiene standards in order to guarantee quality and efficiency of
the service provided.

 

Accountabilities

  •  Ensuring the implementation and standardization
    of MSF clinical policies, tools, and hygiene protocols in order to minimize
    clinical risks and to guarantee the quality of patient care management.
    Promoting and maintaining confidentiality regarding all patient cases and
    records
  • Implementing diagnosis, prescription and
    prevention procedures that fall under the scope of his/her competencies
    applying medical knowledge, asking appropriate questions to patients and
    following protocols in force as well as using laboratory services when
    necessary, in order to ensure a correct implementation of the medical
    treatments and to refer patients when appropriate.
  • Participating in the planning and supervision,
    in close coordination with other supervisors, the HR processes (sizing, staff
    shifts, recruitment, training, evaluation, development and communication) of
    the team in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge
    required, improve people triage capabilities, their motivation and commitment
    and their active participation in teaching the targeted population on
    therapeutic and preventive protocols.
  • Ensuring that all staff using medical devices
    are qualified and trained. Ensuring cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are
    performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project
    biomedical service.

    o   In cases of emergency, carrying out first aid care and treatment
    according to protocols in order to reduce mortality rates

    o   Recording in the individual patient’s card and registration books, all
    performed medical activities (drugs prescribed, lab results, vaccination
    status, epidemiological activity, doses, etc.) keeping data traceability in
    order to ensure patients treatment continuity.

    o   Participating in data collection and reporting when required

    o   Knowing and implementing Patient Therapeutic Education (PTE), i.e.
    keeping contact with all patients, providing them information regarding their
    health state and responding to their questions.

    o   Knowing and promoting the proper application of Post Exposure
    Prophylaxis (PEP) Kit and Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV) protocol.

    Requirements

    Requirements

     

     

    Education

    •       Essential Clinical officer diploma

    Experience

    •       Desirable previous clinical supervision experience of at least one
    year.

    Languages

    •       Proficiency in English and Kiswahili. Somali language knowledge would
    be an asset.

    Knowledge

    •       Desirable computer literacy

    Competencies

    •       Results
    and Quality Orientation L2

    •       Teamwork
    and Cooperation L2

    •       Behavioural
    Flexibility L2

    •       Commitment
    to MSF Principles L2

    •       Stress
    Management L3

     

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