Senior Medical Officer

We are looking for a Senior Medical Officer (SMO).
The Senior Medical Officer (SMO) will collaborate with closely the Senior Management Team to drive the overall Hospital Group Business performance by ensuring smooth and efficient Hospital operations that lead to High quality compassionate care service delivery. The primary goal is to ensure timely provision of quality medical services, quality patient care and medical counselling services by providing overall leadership to internal teams. The Senior Medical Officer (SMO) will oversee the smooth running and provision of the Clinical and other related Medical Services across the three (3) branches.
Responsibilities :
The Role will be responsible for driving the overall business performance across the Hospital branches by providing proactive Clinical leadership, ensuring customer centric cultural alignment among the staff members, ensuring timely and efficient High quality of care outcomes, compliance with the Hospital clinical standards and guidelines and developing appropriate patient solutions for the business. Specifically, the Role will:
Be responsible for providing overall proactive clinical leadership to the medical officers and other staff across the Hospital branches to ensure timely provision and delivery quality patient care.
Be Responsible for Hospital Quality Assurance and Standards Management by developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the Care outcome impact of key Clinical and service delivery Processes.
Be responsible for Hospital operations efficiency by providing senior clinical oversight of the locality management of critical incidents, safe prescribing and quality improvement activities, and overseeing the hospital wide clinical/care governance activities as required.
Drive overall Business Performance Management by championing Business Development Initiatives to ensure overall growth of the clinical services and uptake.
Provide effective liaison with Government Agencies, NGOs, Donors and Sponsors.

Required qualifications

Minimum 4 years’ experience working as a Medical Officer in a busy level 4 hospital facility.
An undergraduate degree in Clinical Medicine
Postgraduate training or advanced experience in any of the following; Internal Medicine, Health Systems Management, Critical Care or Business Leadership & Management will be an added advantage.
Must have a Certificate in basic life support and Advanced Cardiac life support
Knowledge of relevant legislations as well as professional standards;
Evidence of leadership or supervisory experience will be an added advantage
Good computer skills and Report preparation.

Desired Key Competencies & Skills
Leadership and team Management, Clinical Expertise, Collaborative Patient Care, Empathy and Compassion, Effective Communication, Resilience and Adaptability