Junior Registrar (Family Medicine) at Lily Hospitals Limited

Location: Warri, Delta.
Type:  Full Time
Job Category: Senior - Level

Job Summary

• This role is responsible for diagnosing, treating and providing preventive health care services to patients in the general population. The job holder may refer patients to sub-specialists when the need further diagnosis or treatment arises.

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

• Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury
• Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention. This can be face to face, group lectures or through the mass media.
• To see patients in the out-patient clinic (OPD) every day irrespective of the training rotation.
• Execute minor surgical procedures on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems.
• Plan, implement, or administer health programs or standards in hospitals, businesses, or communities for prevention or treatment of injury or illness.
• To provide quality medical care to patients under the supervision of the HOD, Family Medicine.
• Adhering to professional and service code of conduct and ethics;
• To spare head postgraduate seminar presentations, grand rounds, morbidity meeting.
• Must participate in clinical audit and quality programs as appropriate.
• To teach interns, nurses and medical officers as appropriate.

Administrative Functions:

• Manage the administrative requirements of the hospital and patient care including planning and draft budgeting for unit and OPCO divisional for activities in the hospital.
• Be aware of and adhere to all Lily Hospital policies and procedure in reference to clinical practice.

The Person

• The job holder must have a license to practice medicine from the Nigerian Medical and Dental Association.
• He or She must have the primaries qualification in Family Medicine.
• Knowledge of Families Medicine and other areas of medical practice such as Pediatrics & Obstetrics & Gynecology, Surgery, Ophthalmology and so on.
• The job holder must have good communication skills, a strong ability to work well under extreme pressure, self discipline and excellent long term concentration.

Remuneration
Salary in line with industry standard