Job Description
POSITION: RESIDENT ANESTHESIOLOGIST
TYPE: CONTRACT (2 YEARS)
LOCATION: THIKA
DEPARTMENT: MEDICAL SERVICES
REPORTS TO: MEDICAL SERVICES MANAGER
Job Objective/ Purpose:
Provide professional and compassionate medical treatment, care and services by providing quality anaesthesiology and critical care
services in line with Avenue Healthcare’s policies, procedures and standards, and medical standards and practices.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Work with the Clinical team to navigate patients through
the treatment journey, providing appropriate consultation
and attending to all patients who require theater services -
pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative, within
hospital SOPs and internationally best practices.
2. Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out,
interpretation of the results, and ensure accurate, and clear
documentation of patient history, physical examination,
investigations, and management.
3. Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, updates
of treatment options and progress to the patient and the
next of kin, and discharges.
4. Champion evidence based practice and continuous skill
improvement by attending and Facilitating CMEs to
colleagues to build capacity to provide care.
5. Actively participate in clinical quality initiatives including,
morbidity and mortality meetings, maintaining and
enforcing infection control standards, ensuring patients
safety following the IPSGs, Incident reporting, RCAs and
QIPs.
6. Ensure proper and effective drug administration and
management as per policy and procedures.
7. Ensure the Unit is financially viable, and demonstrate
growth by managing costs, ensuring proper pre-
authorization, timely and accurate billing of drugs and
services, and monitoring patient limits.
8. Ensure that Avenue Healthcare corporate governance
policies are adhered to, including preventing, detecting,
and reporting any fraud or criminal activities, and
Implementing audit recommendations.
9. Ensure adequate knowledge of and compliance to all
Avenue Healthcare policies, procedures, and systems,
especially policies pertaining to the provision of medical
services i.e. Admission & discharge, reporting, equipment
and supplies, etc.
10. Adhere to Government and respective professional
standards of care and treatment of patients as guided by
the KMPDC.
11. Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.
Person Specification
• Specialist recognition in Anesthesiology
• Masters in Anesthesiology and Bachelors degree in Medicine (MBChB) from recognized Institutions
• Certificate of Registration and valid practicing license from the KMPDC
• 2+ years’ work experience as an Anesthesiologist.
• Customer focus and results oriented
• Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
• Highly responsive, ethical and responsible