Medical Officer / Medical Doctor (MBBS)

Job Description

Title: Medical Officer / Medical Doctor (MBBS)

Company Name: Young Power in Social Action (YPSA)

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar

Salary: Tk. 110000 - 115000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 1 year
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery(MBBS)

• M.B.B.S degree from recognized medical college with BMDC registration number and minimum 1 years of experience post-internship.

• At least 1 year
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Experience working in a multicultural, low-resource setting. Exposure to working with local partners and providing/attending training in NGOs. Willing to work in a Health Post in a camp setting. Also having experience in District level hospital work experience.

• English: (essential) mission working language. Chittagonian dialect: (desirable) local language.

• Ability to manage critically ill patients. Must be ready at all times to handle any given emergency situation. Excellent knowledge of antibiotic stewardship. Well defined knowledge of Infection prevention & control is desirable. Must be willing to learn from Emergency Medicine experts, hands-on training. Prior emergency experience or experience working in the Emergency Department/ICU/ITU desirable.

• Results and Quality Orientation, Strong Analytical skills, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioral Flexibility, Commitment to YPSA-CPI Principles, Service Orientation, Stress Management. Ability to formalize and synthesize findings in reports.

Department Programs

Employment status Full Time

Location Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Travel 100% Travel to field

Reports to Health Program Coordinator(s), based on placement

Reporting to this position Not Applicable

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

Community Partners International (CPI) is a U.S. based nonprofit organization that is working with a local partner organization: Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), to expand access to quality health services and generate the resources, local capacity and coordination necessary for partners and the people to meet their own health and community needs.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Medical Officer is responsible for the direct delivery of high-quality comprehensive emergency and primary healthcare services at the Health Post, ensuring services are provided according to the minimum service package standard. The MO must be proactive in nature, must be ready at all times to handle any given emergency situation, and must possess the ability to think and act critically.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Clinical Care and Patient Management
• Consultation and Treatment: Take history, perform examination, order investigations, and prescribe treatment. Perform all physical and clinical examinations aligned with proper patient care.
• Emergency Management: Perform emergency resuscitation and stabilization to patients prior to referral or hospitalization. Manage Medical, Paediatrics, Neonates, and Obstetric emergencies, ensuring appropriate referrals as needed.
• Quality Oversight: Oversee the provision of quality care, ensuring consultations and treatments are in line with relevant clinical protocols, guidelines, and standard methodologies.
• Protocols: Ensure that IMCI protocols are implemented and followed by all relevant staff (Medical Assistants, Nurses, Midwives, vaccinators).
• Procedures: Ensure proper triage mechanisms, registration processes, and MUAC screening. Ability to perform USG for pregnant mother reproductive age group females as needed. Willingness to perform implant insertion.
• Patient Communication: Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow, checking they have understood. Provide health and hygiene promotion to patients and caregivers.
• Follow-up: Follow up the evolution of stabilized/observed patients, through follow-up visits, consultations and examinations, prescribing the necessary treatment following standard protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with other doctors.
• Safety, IPC, and Confidentiality
• Infection Control: Knows and ensures all standard medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times, reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control.
• Resource Control: Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care of the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material. Assure general compliance with standing hygiene standards.
• Ethics: Ensure professional confidentiality is respected. Ensure patient confidentiality is respected, and that all consultations are conducted in a dignified and respectful manner.
• Staff Supervision, Development, and Program Support
• Direct Supervision: Directly supervise the following staff: Medical Assistants, Midwives, Nurses, Dispensers, and vaccinators.
• Training & Mentorship: Provide clinical support and mentorship to other clinical staff, providing on-the-job training where needed. Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
• Team Relations: Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance.
• Supply Chain: Work with relevant staff to ensure prompt requesting of medical drugs and supplies as needed.
• Monitoring, Reporting, and Data Management
• Documentation: Ensure proper documentation, including handover procedure, record keeping and reporting compliance according to program implementation strategy. Maintain a handover book with proper handover note.
• Records: Ensure all patient consultations and treatments are appropriately recorded and signed. Ensure all patient consultations are documented and patient records completed.
• Data Collection: Daily collection, compilation, and reporting of data, ensuring accurate and timely recording of information. Maintaining facility registers and other data collection tools.
• Epidemiology: Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity and informing the line manager or program manager about any problem or complication of the patient’s illness, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.
• Safety Monitoring: Consistently and dedicatedly monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to management.