Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 03, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Medical Doctor will be responsible for the delivery of quality health services including consultations, diagnosis, and treatment of clients in accordance to the MoH protocols. He/she will be responsible to provide technical assistance and build the capacity of the health facility staff to improve the quality of health service delivery. .

Job Responsibilities
• Plans and provides primary health care services to beneficiaries, including consultations, diagnosis, writing prescriptions, care plans, and minor surgery;
• Technically supports health activities including curative, preventive, and community health;
• Ensures health facilities adhere to national and international health standards, specifically from the Ministry of Health and WHO, supported by the Health Coordinator;
• Oversee the management of non-communicable diseases;
• Collaborate with Head Nurse, HIV/AIDS Coordinator, and Nutrition Coordinator for planning and implementing primary health services;
• Provides technical support for health education activities in the clinic and during outreach sessions;
• Collaborates with Health Coordinator and other coordinators in developing standards and procedures for the Medical Staff and in monitoring the continuity of Medical activities;
• Maintains standards of confidentiality and patient privacy in maintaining credential files and the electronic medical database;
• Promote environmental sanitation activities within the health facilities to minimize environmental health hazards;
• Provide technical support to Nurses and Lab Technicians through regular meetings, mentorship, and organizing on the job training for technical health facility staff;
• Establish strategies for efficient health activities and its application;
• Participate in reporting and analyzing monthly, quarterly and annual reports, including stock reports on pharmaceuticals and HIS data;
• Maintains appropriate records in collaboration with the Pharmacist on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis. Regularly follows up the clinic requirement of all drugs, medical and non-medical supplies;
• Supervise immunization and other clinic sessions organized at the health center;
• Assist Midwives during antenatal, delivery, postnatal care and family planning services;
• Diagnose, treat and prescribe drugs using MoH treatment guidelines and common childhood illnesses using IMCI protocols;
• Assess children with severe malnutrition with specification and refer accordingly;
• Treatment and early referral of medical, surgical and obstetric emergencies;
• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor, or any other ARC Senior Manager.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Job Qualifications
• Medical Doctor from a recognized university with full registration and current practicing license with a relevant professional body (Rwanda Medical Council);
• A minimum of 2 years) clinical working experience in Rwanda health system;
• Experience in capacity building of health staff with good leadership qualities;
• Demonstrated knowledge of Health Information Systems, Nutrition protocols, HIV protocols, and Primary and Reproductive Health Care concepts, including Rwandan Ministry of Health protocols and guidelines;
• Oral/writing skills in Kinyarwanda, English, and French;
• Must have cross-cultural and strong interpersonal skills to work with refugees and vulnerable persons;
• Experience in rural health center/ hospital setting;
• Ability and willingness to live and work in a remote, low-resource setting;
• Ability to establish rapport with highly placed government officials, as well as with UN, NGOs and other stakeholders;
• Ability to develop implementation plans with logical framework as well as develop monitoring and evaluation tools and processes to ensure that set goals and targets are achieved;
• Experience working in refugee situation is an added advantage.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Please submit 1 page Cover letter, an updated CV (maximum three pages) and names, title and contacts of three professional referees, to include most current employer/supervisor - via email to: RWJobs@arcrelief.org  with the POSITION applied for clearly indicated in the subject line. The deadline for submission of applications is February 12th, 2020 at 16:00hrs. Only applications received through the above stated email address will be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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