Job Purpose:

The overall purpose of this job is to manage patients at the hospital requiring obstetrics and gynecology care outpatient and inpatient departments, to ensure delivery of quality and safe services to all disciplines where obstetrics and gynecology care is required.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance- Participates in the development and implementation of quality assessment plans and ensuring continuous improvement of the obstetrics and gynaecology department services. Ensure appropriate documentation is completed and maintained.
• Carry out patient assessment, treatment and stabilization and other specialized procedures in order to provide curative services in line with established protocols and promote patient centricity including providing clinical support during emergencies including resuscitation, admission, discharge or referral to the appropriate consultants and units where obstetrics and gynaecology department services are required.
• Contribute to the departmental clinical quality assurance system, including regular clinical audit, review of patient care (length of patient stay, mortality and morbidity reviews, audit, regular clinical meetings) to ensure quality to services provided to patients.
• Research and Development- Actively involved in a wide range of research and development initiative areas and create awareness of the hospital as having research programs that are at the forefront of science in patient care.
• Oversight of quality and patient safety by assisting in planning and setting priorities for obstetrics and gynaecology department through quality improvement and patient safety activities and reviewing clinical related patient complaints and ensure a satisfactory resolution thereof with proper corrective and preventive action.
• Work with the established consultants to ensure equitable provision of obstetrics and gynaecology department across the whole of the hospital. This will include collaborative working, mutual cover for leave, and ensuring adherence to principles of clinical governance.
• Learning and Development – Support learning and development initiatives by identifying skill gaps and providing learning and development opportunities for the medical and nursing staff. Plan and direct research and development appropriate to the facility.

Qualifications

Education 

• Master of Medicine in obstetrics and gynaecology from a recognized institution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Bachelors in Surgery.
• Must have valid membership and hold a valid practicing license in the relevant field from the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council.

Experience 

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar position.

Key Competencies  – Skills/Knowledge/Aptitude

• Service orientation
• Problem solving
• Critical thinking skills
• Excellent decision making
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment.
• Emotionally resilient
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail