Medical Doctor Job at Outreach Medical Services

Outreach Medical Services is a group of hospitals offering affordable care to women and children across Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Medical Doctor

Job Location: Festac / Okota, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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-
• Any other duty that may assigned.

Education and Licenses

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree qualification
• At least Two (2) years of post NYSC experience in a hospital.
• Be a Medical Doctor who is registered and licensed with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigerian (MDCN).
• 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.
• Appropriate clinical skills.
• Collaborative working style to promote strong partnerships.
• Able to encourage an organisational culture that promotes clinical engagement in decision-making processes.
• Be willing to learn.

Salary
N230,000 - N270,000 / month.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: outreachmedicalservice@gmail.com using the Job Position as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only candidates that live in Lekki and environs should apply.