Medical Doctor at Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Medical Doctor

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Contract: Daily worker pool

Job Description
Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Apply medical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry out outpatient and inpatient consultations, prescribing the necessary treatment respecting MSF protocols.
• 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.
• Follow up the evolution of the hospitalized/IDP patients, through daily visits , consultations and examinations, prescribing the necessary treatment following MSF protocols, deciding whether they can be discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with other doctors- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.
• Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and equipment under his/her responsibility and take care the quality, disinfection and sterilization of the medical material. Assure general compliance with standing hygiene standards.
• Active participation in the mortality reveiws
• Ensuring knowledge of updated MSF protocols, policies and guidelines
• Active participation in other project activities and meetings.
• Follows the referral procedure, adhering to MSF referral guidelines, and validating all referrals to the medical activity manager
• Participate in the morning medical meeting and ensure handover is done before leaving the service
• Participate to the development of reforms in working strategies.
• Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data, checking its validity and informing the line manager or project coordinator about any problem or complication of the patients illness, medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department, equipment or material.
• Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
• Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures professional confidentiality is respected.
• Manage the team under his/her direct responsibility according to MSF HR policies and procedures, supervising their performance, organizing and scheduling shifts and rotations, directly participating in emergencies and on calls if necessary
• Active participation in the weekly presentations of medical topics for continous medical education

Requirements
Education:    

• Medical Doctor diploma, Desirable diploma in Tropical Medicine (For OCB  OCBA Tropical Medicine Is essential).

Experience:

• Medical Doctor diploma Desirable diploma in Tropical Medicine (For OCB  OCBA Tropical Medicine Is essential).
• 2 years experience minimum as a Medical Doctor/General practitioner in clinical work (consultations, admissions, ward rounds, lab tests request and results interpretation). Desirable in tropical medicine, experience in pediatrics (Triage, Resuscitation, ICU, IPD, SAM, Infectious Diseases).

Language:

• Fluency in English (Read, Speak and Write), Hausa (Speak), Kanuri required.

Knowledge Competencies:

• Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel, Internet).
• Behavioural Flexibility L2
• Commitment to MSF Principles L2
• Stress Management L3.
• Results and Quality Orientation L2
• Team work and Cooperation L2

Remuneration
N2,673 per hour.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

Note

• Only successful applicants will be called for interview.
• No monetary transactions, neither demands of favours in kind, nor other types of favouritism will be tolerated in the recruitment process.
• MSF reserves the right to refuse hiring of a candidate having benefitted from such acts. All illicit demands of these types may be pursued through the judicial system.
• MSF is an equal opportunity employer anddoesn’t discrimination on the basis of Gender, Religion, Race

Application Deadline  5 pm: 24th April, 2021.