Health -Medicine Jobs at Kakumiro District and other Companies

JOB DETAILS:

Salary Scale: U4 Med-2
Reports to: Senior Anaesthetic Officer
Directly supervise: Assistant Anaesthetic Officer

Job Purpose: To conduct advanced anaesthetic services

Key duties and responsibilities
• Providing safe, quality, emergency, anaesthetic and critical care services to patients
• Providing safe patient care during both intra and inter-hospital transfers
• Evaluating and referring patients for specialized anaesthetic and critical care services
• Assisting the Senior Anaesthetic Officer to establish basic emergency and critical care services to patients.
• Conduction referrals for specialized anaesthesia and critical care services.
• Participating in research activities and health data management.
• Participating in continuing Professional Development Programs.
• Managing performance of staff.
• Participating in disaster management activities.
• Enforcing professional ethics and service codes of conduct.
• Managing information and records I anaesthesia and critical care.

Person Specification
Qualifications
• A Bachelor of Science in Anaesthesia, Anaesthesia and Critical Care or it’s equivalent from a recognized University/Institution.
• Registered and gazetted by AHPC, with a valid practicing license.

Experience
No previous working experience is required.

Competencies
Technical Competences
Planning, Organizing and coordinating
• Adjusts plan appropriately and takes initiative to follow through rather than wait for problems.
• Anticipates problems, takes advantage of opportunities and effectively deals with them.

Coaching and Mentoring
• Provides routine exchange of knowledge with others to help them carryout assignments.
• Gives detailed instructions and/or on the-job demonstration.
• Listens for appropriate responses and provides encouragement and support for action.
• Reinforces behavior that produces positive inputs.

Time Management
• Plans daily, weekly, quarterly, monthly and annually.
• Maintains an organized work environment with easy access to necessary resources and files and with minimal clutter
• Uses an effective personal planning and scheduling tool.
• Maintains an organized filling system.
• Takes specific steps to evaluate how time is used and to eliminate time wastage.

Managing Employee Performance
• Is familiar with present performance management system within the organization and follows guidelines and standards for formal performance planning and review.
• Understands the organization’s goals and objectives.

Behavioral competencies
Concerns for Quality and Standards
• Endeavors to have clear information that relates to roles, performance expectations and tasks and accountability.
• Maintains current and thorough records.
• Acts to improve performance and to ensure success.
• Monitors progress against key criteria.

Results orientation
• Aware of the mission, goals, strategic objectives and key outputs of the organization and own department.
• Able to link the objectives and outputs of the department to his/her own job.
• Able to prioritize work and makes decisions that are aligned with established objectives.
• Strives to improve results.

Ethics and Integrity
• Does not require external monitoring to observe ethical standards but rather monitors own actions for consistency with accepted values and standards
• Openly advocates for observance of ethical values and principles to others.

JOB DETAILS:

SALARY SCALE: U4 Med-1
REPORTS TO: Senior Medical Officer
RESPONSIBLE FOR: Clinical Officer

Job Purpose: To provide curative and preventive health care services.

Key Outputs:
• Patients diagnosed and treated.
• Patients referred.
• Allocated resources accounted for.
• Outreach health service programs implemented.
• Code of Conduct and Ethics adhered to.
• Reports compiled and submitted.

Key Functions:
• Participating in planning and budgeting activities.
• Diagnosing, treating and referring patients.
• Accounting for allocated resources.
• Participating in outreach Health programs
• Participating in research activities.
• Participating in continued professional development.
• Adhering to professional Code of Conduct and Ethics.
• Compiling and submitting reports.

Person Specifications:
Academic and professional requirements
• Must have MBChB or equivalent from a recognized Institution.
• Must be registered and Licensed with Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council.
• Must have a valid Annual Practicing License.

Competences
Technical
• Planning, organizing and coordinating
• Information Communication Technology
• Report writing

Behavioral
• Effective communication
• Accountability
• Ethics and Integrity
• Concern for quality standard
• Public Relations and Customer care
• Team work
• Results oriented
• Time Management

JOB DETAILS:

Full Time
Position Number: MUWRP/01/10/2022
Position title: Research Nurse (01 Position)
Position Location: Fort Portal Referral Hospital
Contract Duration: 1-year with a possibility of extension subject to availability of funding.


Position Summary:
The incumbent will serve as Research nurse for the JMEDDIC program. The Research Nurse will work with the rest of the team to identify and recruit study participants according to the approved protocol and GCP. This position will be based in Fort Portal but with expected travels to other location as may be required. The incumbent will work under MUWRP guidelines and policies.

Roles and Responsibilities
• Recruitment of study volunteers
• Taking Medical History and vitals of study participants
• Administering HIV testing and counseling
• Administering Informed Consent
• Compliance with study procedures and GCP standards
• Ensure participant safety and confidentiality.
• Following Standard Operating Procedures.
• Facilitate timely enrollment to MUWRP ongoing and planned studies
• Participate in actively following up study participants to minimize loss to follow up and missed visits
• Conduct Heath Education sessions
• Knowledgeable of applicable Standard Operating Procedures.
• Complete, timely and accurate documentation of all activities as per SOPs, MOPs and study protocols
• Expected to be part of the clinical teams that will be taking part in the active clinical management or care for patients and or study participants at host health facilities including taking part in the active treatment of severe sepsis, EVD, and similar patients in the research unit or ETU during an active EVD outbreak.
• Keeping of the occupational health records for daily temperature measurements for staff and flag all febrile healthcare workers for follow up.
• Participate in patient/healthcare worker safety activities including environmental hygiene
• Updates patients’ charts/symptom logs, white board and discharge lists.
• Teaching and mentorship of all supporting all staff, ensuring good clinical practice is maintained.
• Understand IPC principles
• Joining external calls where required to help support the clinical team
• Willingness to participate in on-call, out of hours, and weekend work as required.
• Participate in VHF patient triage/screening and admission of suspect cases to the designated isolation area.
• Any other duties as directed by the immediate supervisor.

Required Education, Knowledge and Experience
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Midwifery
• Experience or knowledgeable in the IPC principles and or willingness to participate in regular IPC training drills
• At least 2 years of clinical research experience



Skills and Specifications
• Highly organized, detail oriented and self-motivated.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Ability to multi task.
• Be flexible.
• Strict observance of agreed upon timelines/deadlines.
• Good interpersonal/communication skills
• Fluency in verbal and written English and Rutooro.
• Respects authority and commands respect
• Registration with nursing and midwifery council
• Recent clinical experience working as a clinical care essential
• Recent experience in pediatrics and O&G would be desirable.
• Able to carry out clinical care, assessing patients clinically and carrying out usual clinical procedures to the level of a high dependency unit
• To be able to carry out usual inpatient care while wearing full PPE.


PHYSICAL ABILITY: The ability to live in Fort Portal and travel unexpectedly to research sites.
Supervisory controls: The candidate will report directly to the under the immediate supervision of Program Manager.

Ward/field environment;
The position may require working evenings and weekends. Concurrence with working in an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) setting is required. Training for working in an ETU will be provided including regular training sessions for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) outbreak work.”