Dialysis Doctor at Ascentech Services Limited Full Time

Job Title: Dialysis Doctor

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Sector: Healthcare

Objectives of the Role

• Medical officer will cultivate a safe, secure, and healthy environment for patients, colleagues, and staff, and provide exceptional quality of care and service to patients, ensuring trust and standard patient care.
• Answer patients’ questions and address their concerns before, during, and after the dialysis session.

Responsibilities

• To be involved in day to day patient management of dialysis patient care
• Improve centre patient flow through consultations and patient outreach
• Be the highest clinical authority in your main location of work
• Assess the patient before starting dialysis : hemodynamic status – indication of dialysis – vascular access – recent surgery – co morbid illness – bleeding manifestations
• Be involved in patient care during dialysis : – creating access – adequacy of flow – follow instruction of the nephrologist – deciding about any modification in dialysis prescription in consultation with the nephrologist monitoring the patient during dialysis – managing complications during dialysis – will coordinate with dialysis technicians and dialysis nurses
• Assess the patient at the time of closure : – access site – hemodynamic status – any complication – any specific instruction to (a) the nurse (b) the relatives
• Follow up with patients after dialysis
• Handle / supervise / guide the supporting staff if emergency situations arise.
• Have working knowledge of the dialysis machine, water treatment plant, ventilator, defibrillator, and other gadgets and equipments of the dialysis unit.
• Be the team leader of the day to day dialysis procedure and on one hand will keep in touch with the nephrologist on the other hand will disseminate the information thus gathered to the subordinate staff in order to implement the guidelines fixed by the hospital authority and the nephrologist.
• Look after the safety and security of the supporting staff.
• Assist in developing clinical SOPs and implementing them in supervised centres
• Assist other centres with clinical issues

Requirements

• MBBS Degree with a valid registration
• At least one year house job in internal medicine / allied specialty
• Experience in central line access
• Experience in critical care management
• Certified in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)
• Experience in pediatric patient management – desirable
• Trained under Nephrologist for not less than 6 months
• Good interpersonal skills and computer literacy.

Application Closing Date
27th November, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.