Medical Doctor at COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale

Job Description

• Provides outpatient and/or inpatient medical care’s to Stabilization centre beneficiaries according to The Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria medical/international protocols, values and universal hygiene standards.

Main Duties / Responsibilities

• Under the direct supervision of the Assistant Nutrition Project Manager and in collaboration with the Project Managers, Field Coordinators, and other collaborators of the projects and of the Base, She/he will:

Medical Activities
Provides in-patient consultations:

• Carries out the daily departmental rounds
• Examines all the hospitalized patients while carrying out a Triage to ensure that critical and new patients are prioritized at all times.
• Ensures all Patients are regularly monitored depending on their condition.
• Prescribes the care and treatments required, following the Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria protocols and ensuring the rational use of medicines
• Informs patients about their illnesses, explains their treatments, answers questions.
• Keeps the hospitalization forms up to date (details of examinations, entry and exit diagnoses, treatments, Death Reports, etc ) and ensures the application of prescriptions
• Decides on the discharge/transfer to OTP of patients according to the state of their health and following the Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria protocols
• Works in collaboration with the different doctors and supervises transfers towards other departments if necessary
• Checks that transfusion rules are followed in the department (grouping, tests, procedure, monitoring, etc.)
• Ensures ongoing training of the medical/nurses/nutrition assistants team in order to optimize the quality of care
• Manages emergencies and is on call if necessary
• May be assigned to be responsible for Staff health issues.
• Ensures Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria protocols always followed by medical staff members.
• May be involved in scheduling and rotations of medical staff members.
• Ensures universal precautions followed at all times, contributes to reducing bio-hazard risk, and infection control improvements. Participates in Infection Control meetings if needed.
• Flexibility of roster in night and day if needed
• Ensures that professional confidentiality is respected
• Participates in Medical, Mortality, Staff meeting if needed.

Provides out-patient consultations if required:

• Checks that triage is carried out according to emergency criteria and the vulnerability of patients
• Refers emergencies cases based on Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria procedure of referral to the hospital and re-orientates non-emergency patients if necessary.
• Carries out consultations following Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria treatment protocols and noting observations on health care forms
• Provides patients with information on their illnesses, explaining the treatments involved and how to follow them, checking that patients have properly understood
• Ensures the follow up of previously hospitalized patients in the outpatients department (OTP)
• Monitors the rational distribution of medicines at pharmacy level
• Works in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team and participates in ongoing staff training (care techniques, updating protocols etc.)

Reporting:

• Participates in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data (medical statistics), checking its validity if required
• Monitor and inform about type of pathologies, abnormal increases in number of consultations as well as any epidemic potentials.
• Inform line manager about any possible serious problem or complication, ex. worsening of state of patients, problems in medicines, Need of special treatment or Referral, etc.
• Ensure that information is transferred to next duty team regarding patients and their status.
• Inform line manager of any problems that might be linked to work of nurses, nutrition assistants as well as problematic equipment or material (ex. broken, missing).

Equipment:

• Look after all equipment provided.
• Ensure that no material is taken out of doctors area without prior authorisation.
• Keep an updated inventory of all material and equipment used and ask in advance for all renewable material needed.

Emergencies:

• Participates in emergency activity or exploratory visit in or out of the COOPI area of work upon request.
• Report on time any epidemic diseases to line supervisor.

Additional responsibilities:

• This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and the employee will also perform other related tasks as required and assigned by his/her supervisor.
• Profile of the Candidate (Education, Training, Competences, Skills)

Minimum Requirements

• Essential degree of medicine with valid professional license practice.
• Desirable specialisation or training in Pediatrics and/or Nutrition.
• Essential working experience of at least two years in relevant jobs related to Pediatrics and Nutrition.
• Share the humanitarian mission of the organization
• Good communication skills
• Ability to communicate with vulnerable populations
• Proven experience in related field
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Accuracy and promptness in performing duties
• English writing and speaking skill preferred

Desired Competencies / Skills
Essential:

• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive

Preferred:

• Previous experience in similar roles in a humanitarian set up
• Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local context
• Knowledge of the local language (Hausa/Kanuri)