Paediatric Consultant at Lily Homes Limited

Location: Benin, Edo
Type:  Full Time
Job Category: Management Level

Job Summary

• This role is responsible for providing high quality clinical care to patients requiring pediatric services in the hospital.

Key Result Areas (KRA)
The key result areas of this role are:

• To provide quality medical care to patients and supervise the delivery of quality healthcare by all  junior medical personnel
• Provide expert advice to referring clinicians on the most appropriate diagnostic investigations.
• Formulating plans of management
• Contribute to quality patient care by participating in case planning with other members of the patient medial team.
• Coordinating appropriate consultation with other specialty departments and services
• Interacting with other health professionals, including nursing and allied health staff, in provision of ongoing clinical care to patients
• Maintaining the patient clinical record by ensuring appropriate and timely communication to other health care providers and ongoing patient care post hospital stay.

Administrative Functions:

• Manage the administrative requirements of the hospital, patient care summaries and medico-legal correspondence
• Be aware of and adhere to all Lily Hospital policies and procedure in reference to clinical practice.
• Coordinate the departmental activities with those of the hospital
• Ensure accomplishment of quality training in the department.

The Person

• The job holder must have a license to practice medicine from the Nigerian Medical and Dental Association, West African College or any other relevant specialist qualification body.
• The job holder must have good communication skills,  strong ability to work well under pressure, self discipline and excellent long term concentration.
• Job holder must have a working knowledge of global quality assurance, clinical audit principles and processes and must exhibit commitment towards continuous quality improvement.
• Minimum of 3 years cognate experience
• Must show evidence of competence in management of pediatric cases and evidence of active participation in relevant research.

Remuneration
Salary in line with industry standard.