Brewery Medical Doctor at Nigerian Breweries Plc

⏲ Jun 12, 2024, 10:29 AM
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Nigerian Breweries Plc - As the foremost brewing company in Nigeria, we are proud of our vision to Wow Nigeria with our Great Brands, Passionate People and World Class Performance.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Brewery Medical Doctor

Location: Aba, Abia
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

The Brewery Medical Doctor manages the activities of all medical staff employed by the location brewery and also takes responsibility for employee health and wellbeing, preventive medical activities and the health, safety and environment program at the location.

Key Responsibilities
Implementation of planned medical activities and standardized policies:

Advise location management on the nature quality and performance of the medical services.
Provide medical services in the location
Trend reporting of collated data to the CMA
Implement evidence based treatment guidelines
Implement the Heineken HAART program for AIDS in the location
Routine consultation of patients.
Implement relevant periodic health surveillance
Collation analyses of medical data

Lead the location TPM- Safety Pillar with a vision at Zero Accident in the location:

Ensure that all employees use necessary PPE, by conducting and documenting weekly safety (PPE) audit, and communicate finding to location management committee and CMA
Ensure machine safety by conducting and documenting regular machine safety audits and communicating findings to location management committee and CMA
Introduce and educate employees on the identification of Near Misses in the locations, document location near-misses, and report same to brewery management committee, with the view of relevant departments to eliminate their near-misses.
Lead the location safety pillar in the biannual TPM audit, conducted by Heineken Group Supply Chain.

Maintain A Local Network:

Maintain a local network with relevant medical institutions, government agencies, and medical advisers of other members of the organized private sector
Be informed on socio-medical developments in cooperation with them
Take initiative of projects in co-operation with them.

Participate In Local Initiatives:

Participate in local initiative regarding the corporate social responsibility issues e.g. Alcohol and Work, Health and Safety, and HIV/AIDS.

Supervision and quality monitoring of local selected secondary health care providers:

Advise on selection of Hospitals, consultants and if applicable also primary healthcare providers: General practitioners.
Regular visits with review and audit of selected medical facilities.
Hospital visit of patients
Collation of relevant data from providers and transmission of the same to the CMA.

Surveillance and monitoring of medical policies for expatriates:

Advise on provider hospitals for expatriate families and monitor level of care provided in a regular way (in close co-operation with the CMA and HINS)
Ensure that expatriate vaccinations are kept up to date
Inform and advise location management and expatriates on socio-medical issues

Prevention of work related incidents and accidents as well as occupational illnesses:

Implementation of the registration system for work related accidents (the Web-Based incident and accident data base - ARISO)
Participate in the locations SHE committee
Feedback departments on occupational illnesses and substances hazardous to health.
Advise Technical and HR departments on evaluation of the number of accidents
Establish and maintain a working relation with locations safety coordinator and safety engineer

Update and refresh knowledge attitude and practices of medical staff in co-operation with the CMA:

Continuous training and on the job supervision
Organize regular training sessions
Roll out NBMS and HIMS policies, vision, and opinions as agreed during their respective medical conferences
Supervise and appraise staff performance
Circulate articles about interesting new developments

Food Safety Management System (FSMS) Responsibility:

Drive Awareness, Implementation and Sustainability of aspects of FSMS dealing with personal hygiene and sanitation in Lagos and Ota Brewery
Ensure Periodic Health Assessment dealing with Food Handlers Test, Screening and Treatment in responsible departments are carried out, reported and documented bi-annually.
Lead the brewery’s’ medical department responsibility in planned FSMS audits

Implement preventive medical activities:

Immunization against preventable diseases
Roll back malaria program
NB Healthy Liver program
Know your Numbers program (for Sales Force)
Information, education and counseling (IEC) on HIV/AIDS and other STDs
IEC on non-communicable diseases such as hypertension diabetes and road traffic accidents

Implementation of information systems and procedures:

Implement (when necessary adapt) rules and regulations of reporting
Monitor ways of reporting
Ensure that information is available within and if needed outside the company in support of business objectives
If necessary provide medical advise in case of consumer complaints of medical nature
Use correctly HIMS Information tools, incident/ accident data base, HAART data base. Medical work bench, SHE data base, Health Reporting Tool etc.
Compile monthly health reports to the CMA and observe and report trends

Heineken Africa Foundation (HAF) Projects:

Identify and propose projects in the locality to HAF in relation to Water, Sanitation, Health and Hygiene following laid down criteria.
Implement, Supervise and Report on on-going projects in collaboration with Corporate Affairs Department
Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting of running projects using agreed performance indicators

Relationship Management:

Maintains excellent working relationship with both internal and external stakeholders.

Budget Responsibility:

Prepare Clinic Annual Budget
Ensure proper Clinic book keeping
Give the Company Medical Adviser information on Clinic financial and Health matters.
Maintain adequate budgetary controls-

Requirements
Educational Qualifications: