Medical Officer at Blue Advisory Full Time

Job Title: Medical Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description / Responsibilities

• Provide strategic health direction to the clinic.
• Examine and record information on patients’ conditions by sensitively gathering personal information, such as family medical history.
• Gather and maintain patient information confidentially.
• Plan and prepare appropriate treatment packages for patients
• Recommend admission or referral of patients requiring additional and special care, investigation, and treatment.
• Record and monitor patient conditions during every visit, both as a tracking of past treatments/tests run and for referrals and cross-referrals with other doctors (internally and externally).
• Provide advice to patients on lifestyle and diet changes that may improve their health and prevent any illnesses/diseases.
• Liaise with other medical and non-medical staff in the clinic to ensure quality treatment and effective/efficient service delivery.
• Promote health education in conjunction with other health professionals
• Organise and coordinate preventative medical care programmes for individual patients, and presentations for clients.
• Meet targets set by the government for specific treatments such as child immunisation schedules.
• Manage resources to serve patients as effectively as possible.
• Provide the best medical advice for the patient and refer them to a specialist, such as the consultant family physician or eternal specialists, for specific conditions such as diabetic patients or newborn babies.
• Keep up-to-date with medical developments such as new drugs on the market, new treatment methods, and technological advancements to be discussed with the doctors and the Chief Medical Director.
• Discuss the development of new pharmaceutical products with the clinic’s pharmacist and accredited pharmaceutical sales representatives and give feedback to the Chief Medical Director.
• Maintain a portfolio of continuing professional development programmes by organising clinical meetings and presentations.
• Develop quality assurance procedures for clinical processes.
• Offer health promotion and prevention activities within the clinic, for example, training all medical staff to use devices such as ECG machines and diabetes monitors.

Job Requirements

• An excellent Medical Degree from an accredited university
• Minimum of 2 years post medical school experience as a medical Officer
• Experience providing primary care and diagnostic services in a clinical setting.
• Ability to operate medical equipment such as the ECG machine.
• Excellent use of Microsoft Office, specifically PowerPoint, and any reporting medical software.
• Effectively and efficiently analyse data.
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to carry out procedures such as wound dressing, checking blood pressure, and other physical exams.
• Possess sound knowledge of the health education industry and its market.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.