The Resident Surgeon plays a crucial role in providing professional and compassionate medical treatment, care, and quality General Surgery Services, ensuring alignment with Avenue Healthcare’s policies, procedures, standards, and established medical practices.
Job Objective/Purpose
Provide professional and compassionate medical treatment, care and services by providing quality General Surgery Services in line with Avenue Healthcare’s policies, procedures and standards, and medical standards and practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with the Clinical team to navigate patients through the treatment journey, providing appropriate consultation. Conduct General Surgery outpatient clinics by attending to both walk-in and referred patients within hospital Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and best practices.
- Attend to all patients who require General Surgery services in the theater within hospital SOPs, national and internationally guidelines.
- Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out, interpretation of the results, and ensure accurate, and clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
- Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, updates of treatment options and progress to the patient and the next of kin, and discharges.
- Actively participate in clinical quality initiatives including, morbidity and mortality meetings, maintaining and enforcing infection control standards, ensuring patient safety following the International Patient Safety Goals (IPSGs), Incident reporting, Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) and Quality Improvement Projects (QIPs).
- Ensure proper and effective drug administration and management as per policy and procedures.
- Ensure the Unit is financially viable, and demonstrate growth by managing costs, ensuring proper preauthorization, timely and accurate billing of drugs and services, and monitoring patient limits.
- Champion evidence-based practice and continuous development by attending and Facilitating Continuing Medical Education (CMEs) sessions to colleagues to build capacity to provide care.
- Ensure that Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies are adhered to, including preventing, detecting, and reporting any fraud or criminal activities, and Implementing audit recommendations.
- Ensure adequate knowledge of and compliance to all Avenue Healthcare policies, procedures, and systems, especially policies pertaining to the provision of medical services i.e. Admission & discharge, reporting, equipment and supplies, etc.
- Adhere to Government and respective professional standards of care and treatment of patients as guided by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC).
Person Specification and Qualifications
- Specialist recognition in General Surgery.
- Masters in General Surgery and Bachelors degree in Medicine (MBChB) from recognized Institutions.
- Certificate of Registration and Valid practicing license from the KMPDC.
- 2+ years’ work experience as a General Surgeon.
- Customer focus and results oriented.
- Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
- Highly responsive, ethical and responsible.
