Nairobi Women’s Hospital is trusted with the healthcare of Women in Africa, and with passion, we deliver healthcare.
We are recruiting for the following high calibre individuals to join our team of healthcare professionals.
Medical Officers
3 Positions
Function Department: Medical Services
Location: Adam's, Hurlingham, ORU
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-- Providing superior interventional and preventative medical care based on approved guidelines and hospital policy.
- Fostering inter-professional dialogue and consultation in health care matters.
- Ensure continuous medical training of other health professionals
- Recruiting patients for specialist clinics and theatre e.g., Diabetes, HIV.
- Supervising the work of intern doctors and medical students.
- Maintaining a portfolio of continuing professional development (CPD) activities
- Fostering teamwork in medical management- nurses, technicians etc
- Ensuring superior customer care
- Contributing and participating in development of standards and best practices
- Ensure Superior Customer Experience to all internal and external clients
Qualifications and Skills
- Must have practiced in a hospital for 2 years
- MBChB or equivalent
- Current valid registration license with the KMPDB or any of the other East Africa Medical Boards
ERP Administrator
Function Department: Information Systems
Location: Corporate
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
Function Department: Information Systems
Location: Corporate
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
- Establishing the needs of users and monitoring user access and security
- Mapping out the conceptual design for a planned database in outline
- Develop in house systems as per user specifications
- Considering both back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility for end-users
- Refining the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model; further refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements
- Installing and testing new versions of the database management system (DBMS)
- Maintaining data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Policies and Procedures
- Writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata)
- Developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans; ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly
- Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security
- Commissioning and installing new applications and customizing existing applications in order to make them fit for purpose.
- Preparing monthly departmental reports and KPIs
- Monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast query responses to front-end users
- Developing, training, motivating and evaluating departmental staff to achieve highest levels of performance
- Identifying, implementing and benchmarking best practices in management
- Determining & coordinating departmental reporting and communication requirements
- Ensuring Superior Customer Experience to internal and external clients
Qualifications and Skills
- 3 years relevant experience
- Bachelor Degree in Technology
- Certified Oracle administrator or Microsoft Certified System Developer (MCSD)
- Diploma in Management Information System
Ward Clerk
Function Department: Medical Services
Location: Hurlingham
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
Function Department: Medical Services
Location: Hurlingham
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
- Maintaining and issuing accurate ward stock through the ERP
- Handling clerical work at the nursing station
- Ensuring all billings for hospital’s procedures is done
- Preparing birth notifications and burial permits
- Managing the admission documents in the patient file to ensure they are completed as per policy
- Managing the pre authorization process with the insurance companies and ensuring claim forms are correctly filled
- Ensuring NHIF rebate is supported with the necessary documents
- Maintaining the NHIF claim system and ensuring letters from insurance companies are received and seeking for any extension thereafter
- Ensuring discharge documents in respect to billings and documents for clearance are complete
- Finalizing all the patient invoices in the ERP and forwarding with supporting documents to the account assistant receivables
- Managing transactions for day surgery cases
- Ensure Superior Customer Experience to all internal and external clients
Qualifications and Skills
- 1 year relevant work experience
- ‘O’ level certificate
- Certificate in business studies or equivalent
- KATC/CPA 1
- Patient Attendant certificate is an added advantage
Stores Assistant
Function Department: Finance & Supply Chain
Location: Ongata Rongai Unit
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
Function Department: Finance & Supply Chain
Location: Ongata Rongai Unit
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
- Receiving and verification of goods received or issued.
- Short listing of items due for ordering and confirm expiries.
- Maintaining updated stock movement records.
- Processing of departmental requisitions.
- Pricing and labeling of goods.
- System entry of the invoices.
- Compiling monthly reports.
- Participating in physical inventories by counting stock.
- Managing incoming and outgoing goods.
- Ensure Superior Customer Experience to all internal and external clients
Qualifications and Skills
- Certificate in Purchasing and supplies
- 1 year relevant work experience
Cook
Function Department: Hotel & Support Services
Location: TBC
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
Function Department: Hotel & Support Services
Location: TBC
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
- Preparing meals as per the set policies and procedures
- Ensuring provision of timely meals as per the set time schedules
- Ensuring high hygiene standards in preparation and service for zero infection
- Developing well balanced menus to meet changing clients needs
- Estimating food consumption to avoid under/over production to ensure cost efficiency and sales
- Avoiding wastage by deploying and using resources optimally and apply stock controls
- Ensuring portion control and correct pricing for profitability
- Ensure Superior Customer Experience to all internal and external clients
Qualifications and Skills
- 1 year relevant work experience
- Certificate in Food and Beverage Production
- Food handlers Health certificate from Mbagathi District Hospital
Hotel Services Attendant
2 Positions
Function Department: Hotel & Support Services
Location: Ongata Rongai, Adams
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
2 Positions
Function Department: Hotel & Support Services
Location: Ongata Rongai, Adams
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
- Cleaning and disinfecting all common areas, offices and public areas
- Ensuring cleanliness of the linen by dispatching dirty and receiving clean linen to and from laundry
- Ordering and ensuring adequate availability of materials equipments
- Ensuring control of linen
- Cleaning and disinfecting cleaning equipment(s) as per company policy
- Distributing clean drinking water to designated areas
- Reporting damages and repair work as required to supervisor
- Ensuring sorting, packing and loading & off loading of waste materials to the incinerator
- Ensuring sorting, packing and loading & off loading linen
- Ensure Superior Customer Experience to all internal and external clients
Qualifications and Skills
- 1 years relevant work experience
- Certificate in Housekeeping
- Training on First Aid will be an added advantage
Librarian
Function Department: NWH Medical School
Location: TBC
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
Function Department: NWH Medical School
Location: TBC
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
- Manage the planning, administrative and budgetary functions of library and information services and establish and implement library and information policies and procedures
- Develop and manage convenient, accessible library and information services
- Establish and manage the budget for library and information services, technology and Media, develop and manage cost-effective library and information services, technology and media
- Order materials and maintain records for payment of invoices and analyze and evaluate library and information services, technology and media service requirements
- Prepare reports related to library and information services, technology and media services, resources and activities
- Provide effective access to library collections and resources and develop and maintain collections management policies and procedures
- Perform original cataloguing and classification of print, audio-visual and electronic resources
- Develop and maintain special indexing systems and files for special collections and maintain the organization of library materials
- Ensure an accurate inventory of resources and ensure efficient retrieval by users, as well as search external database programs for the availability of cataloguing copy
- Maintain inventories, compile statistics and generate reports as required
- Develop and maintain cataloguing procedures, distribute materials for cataloguing, determine the type of cataloguing required and Enter cataloguing data into the library's automated system and Complete cataloguing records where only partial copy is available
- Process resources for placement on shelf, file cards in shelf list and Index materials for the pamphlet collection
- Provide library services in response to the information needs of library users
- Respond to daily on-site requests for information and train library users to effectively search the Library catalogue, Internet and other electronic resources
- Provide an interlibrary loan service for both book and audiovisual materials and maintain records
- Maintain records for the interlibrary loan service and maintain circulation files, records and statistics
Qualifications and Skills
- Degree in Library Science, or Library and Information Science
- 2-3 years professional library experience
Dental Assistant
Function Department: Medical Services
Location: TBC
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
Function Department: Medical Services
Location: TBC
The key responsibilities of this role will include but not limited to:-
- Design, fabricate and fit dental restorations, prostheses and appliances including crowns and bridges
- Ensure patients comfort on the dental chair and ensure briefing of the treatment process.
- Preparation of tray setups for dental procedures, and instruct patients on postoperative and general oral health care
- Ensure preparation of materials for making impressions and restorations and expose radiographs.
- Removal sutures, application of anesthetics to gums or cavity-preventive agents to teeth, remove excess cement used in the filling process, and place rubber dams on the teeth to isolate them for individual treatment
- Ensure accurate maintenance of patient’s records through ERP and ensuring availability of the same as required.
- Responsible for the operational readiness of the hygiene bay and operatory rooms
- Provide chair side assistance to the Dentist in providing clinical examinations, treatments, information and follow up to clients in need of emergency and general dental care.
- Assist in ensuring a safe and hygienic clinical environment including cleaning and sterilizing of instruments and equipment.
- Ensure infection control procedures are followed as per set infection control policy.
- Ensure proper management of dental clinic inventory
- Ensuring proper storage, packaging and collection of infectious waste/sharps and used developing/fixing solutions if required.
- Follow up and ensure the return of laboratory work as required
- Ensuring proper stock management by reviewing stock levels in store and support in ordering and receiving new dental supply stock.
- Ensuring administrative support services including but not limited reception duties, organizing appointments, handling telephone queries, patient records, computer work and other office records, supporting in organizing for servicing/repair of dental equipment.
- Preparing monthly reports and KPIs
Qualifications and Skills
- 3 years relevant experience.
- Diploma in Dental Technology
Employment Contract: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 45
Closing Date: Wednesday, 15 February 2012
How to apply
Interested applicants are invited to send their applications detailing current and expected salary and CV with contact details of three referees ONLY (DO NOT attach certificates) to the
General Manager Human Resource
P.O. Box 10552-00100
Nairobi,
clearly marking the application with position applied for.
Applications can also be emailed to vacancies@nwch.co.ke with position applied for as the subject line by 15th February 2012.
