Vacancies at Avenue Healthcare

Vacancies at Avenue Healthcare

Avenue Healthcare is one of the leading private healthcare groups in East Africa running 3 Hospitals, and 16 clinics across Kenya, and a Home-care business.

Jobs at Avenue Healthcare

1. Transport Coordinator
2.  Duty Manager – Nursing
3. Medical Officer
4. Cardiovascular Nurse
5. Homecare Coordinator
6. Regional Business Development Executive
7. Accounts Payable Officer
8. Bio-medical Supervisor
9. Reception In-Charge

Duty Manager

Vacancies at Avenue Healthcare

Operational Oversight:

• Coordinate and supervise all operational activities during night shifts, including nursing, administrative, and support staff.
• Ensure compliance with hospital policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements throughout the night.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Address any issues or concerns promptly and effectively, escalating as necessary to senior management.
• Investigate accidents/untoward incidences at the night and inform the relevant manager.
• Participate in development and implementation of polices for improvement of patient care and safety.
• Ensure equipment uptime of >99% for all clinical and non-clinical equipment.
• Ensure service uptime of >99% for all clinical and non-clinical services.
• Ensure product availability as per service standards.
• Ensure robust enterprise risk management practices

Patient Care:

• Monitor patient care activities to ensure quality standards are met and patient safety is maintained.
• Collaborate with nursing staff to address patient needs and resolve any issues that arise during the night.
• Assist in patient transfers in collaboration with Nursing Services Manager (NSM), Finance and the relevant managers
• Inform the NSM & MSM of high risk and sensitive patients

Emergency Response:

• Act as the primary point of contact for emergencies during coverage, coordinating response efforts and communicating with relevant stakeholders.
• Implement emergency protocols as needed, ensuring a swift and effective response to critical situations.

Staff Management:

• Provide leadership, guidance and managerial support to shift staff, fostering a positive and supportive work environment.
• Conduct regular rounds to assess staff performance, provide feedback, and address any concerns or issues.
• Evaluate workload and staffing levels and where required allocate or re-assign resources to meet demand
• Assist in staff development through bedside teaching, skill checks, mentoring and appraisal

Communication and Collaboration:

• Facilitate communication between night shift staff, other departments, and senior management to ensure seamless coordination of activities.
• Collaborate with senior managers, other duty managers and department heads to address cross-functional challenges and promote organizational objectives.

Person Specification

Medical Officer

Vacancies at Avenue Healthcare

Job Objective/ Purpose:

Provide professional and compassionate medical treatment, care and services by ensuring patient review and treatment in line with Avenue Healthcare’s policies, procedures and standards, and medical standards and practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the Clinical team to navigate patients through the treatment journey, providing appropriate consultation, reviews and referral to specialists, and undertake clinical procedures per training,  in line with the hospital policies.
• Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out, interpretation of the results, and ensuring accurate, and clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
• Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, updates of progress to the patient and the next of kin, and discharges.
• Champion evidence-based practice and continuous skill improvement by attending and Facilitating CMEs to colleagues to build capacity to provide care.
• Actively participate in clinical quality initiatives including, morbidity and mortality meetings, maintaining and enforcing infection control standards, and ensuring patients’ safety following the IPSGs, Incident reporting, RCAs and QIPs.
• Ensure proper and effective drug administration and managements per policy and procedures.
• Ensure the Unit is financially viable, and demonstrates growth by managing costs, ensuring proper pre-authorization, timely, accurate billing of drugs and services, and monitoring patient limits.
• Ensure that Avenue Healthcare corporate governance policies are adhered to, including preventing, detecting, and reporting any fraud or criminal activities, and Implementing audit recommendations.
• Ensure adequate knowledge of and compliance to all Avenue Healthcare policies, procedures, and systems, especially policies pertaining to the provision of medical services i.e. Admission & discharge, reporting, equipment and supplies, etc.
• Adhere to Government and respective professional standards of care and treatment of patients as guided by the KMPDC.
• Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.

Person Specification

• A medical degree(MBChB) from a recognized Institution·
• a Certificate of Registration and a Valid practicing license from the KMPDC
• A Valid certification in BLS, ACLS.
• 2+ years ’post registration work experience. 
• Customer focus and results oriented
• Strong interpersonal skills, team playing abilities, and communication skills.
• Highly responsive, ethical and responsible

Cardiovascular Nurse

Vacancies at Avenue Healthcare

Key Responsibilities

• Patient Assessment: Conduct thorough assessments, including history-taking and physical examinations, to identify cardiovascular issues.
• Monitoring: Regularly monitor patients’ vital signs and cardiac rhythms, utilizing telemetry and other monitoring equipment.
• Care Plans: Develop and implement individualized care plans based on patients’ needs and diagnoses.
• Medication Administration: Administer medications as prescribed, educating patients about their medications and potential side effects.
• Patient Education: Provide education to patients and families about heart health, lifestyle modifications, and disease management.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to coordinate patient care and ensure effective communication.
• Emergency Response: Respond to cardiac emergencies, performing CPR and using advanced life support techniques when necessary.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate and detailed patient records, documenting assessments, interventions, and outcomes.

Person Specification

Homecare Coordinator

Vacancies at Avenue Healthcare

JOB OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE

• Coordination of nursing care and carrying out management & administrative roles

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Nursing care coordination

• Conduct care assessment for all clients at service inception
• Create care plans for the patients and explain the care plans to the patient-assigned caregiver
• Evaluate, review, and rate the care givers based on outcomes and client’s/patient’s experience
• Monitoring of client’s outcomes and service quality audits to ensure desired expectations
• Provide continuous education and CMEs to all care givers and company nurses
• Lead a team of inhouse care-relievers to respond timely on relief to ensure client service continuation.

Review and analysis of all daily care givers/nurses

• Review the daily care givers and Nurses reports
• Regular contacts and visits to clients for continuous assessments
• Conduct continuous assessments on clients from clients’ feedback report
• Recommend and implement care plan changes based on patients’ outcome

In-house deployment of nurse services.

• Provide professional home nursing services to the clients e.g drug management, insertions, catheterizations, wound managements etc
• Management of outcomes of the home nursing services.
• Provide technical support to the in houses nurses
• Make ward rounds and market all the Avenue Home care products

Quality assurance management

• Conduct visits to clients, caregivers, and nurses to review patients’ satisfaction/progress.
• Ensure care-givers services are as per care plans and offer the care givers 24-hour technical support
• Identify and make appropriate recommendations for additional services and products per client requirements from time to time as may be appropriate
• Identify and advise on the possible foreseeable risks’ clients onboarding processes at the Hospital level and at home
• Report any unethical practice within the Avenue home care business that might jeopardize the life of the business

Management and administrative roles

• Ensuring that the company office has valid operational licenses
• Advisory function on employee recruitment
• Act as the head of patient attendant training and homebased care in Kisumu
• Take part in company management process e,g formulation of new policies and SOPs
• Ensuring there is enough equipment both for training and for homebased care
• Managing the students and all the homecare locum employees in Kisumu
• Documenting and keeping records of the company
• Facilitating the payment of the company locum employees in liaison with the Human resource department.
• Playing part in students certificate preparation and issuance
• Collection of all the company payments and raising the due invoices

Training coordinator roles

• Marketing of the course within Kisumu and to all other Avenue Home care training centers.
• Conducting students’ recruitment processes
• Supervising and management of the locum trainers
• Clinical deployment and supervision of students during the internship
• Computation of students’ results
• Conducting student practical assessment and clinical procedures
• Instilling and enforcing the institutional code of conduct and ethics among students

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Diploma in nursing from any recognized institution. A Bachelors degree in nursing (BsN) is an added advantage.
• A valid nursing council of Kenya license
• Minimum of 3 years of working experience in nursing preferably in the healthcare sector
• TVET accredited trainer
• Homecare Business and administrative work experience strongly preferred
• Strong computer and phone skills(Word, Excel, Outlook, Google Workplace etc)
• Excellent communication skills

JOB OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE

• To ensure quality of learning at Avenue Homecare

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coming up with the training syllabus and determining the scope of training
• Revising/updating the training curriculum
• Spearhead content development in liaison with the Head of Operations
• On boarding of new students
• Ensure that the facility has the necessary equipment/training aids and constantly check that they are in good working conditions
• Teaching various subjects as assigned by the lead trainer
• Development of the classroom timetable under the guidance of the lead trainer
• Performing clinical supervisions
• Adherence and coverage  of the training syllabus
• Relevant setting and accurate marking of examinations
• Invigilation of examinations to ensure zero examination malpractice
• Carrying out clinical placements and conducting regular checks to find out how work is being carried out
• Perform student evaluation
• Perform practical assessments for students both in class and clinical areas
• Support marketing activities to ensure growth in numbers and revenue.
• Ensure that students’ tuition fees is paid up before the final qualifying examinations
• Perform students admission/orientation
• Ensure client satisfaction (staff, students & fellow lecturers) through communication, feedback and timely escalation of issues

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Diploma in nursing from any recognized institution. A Bachelors degree is an added advantage.
• A valid nursing council of Kenya license
• Minimum of 3 years of working experience preferably in a similar position
• TVET accredited trainer
• Up-to date BLS & ACLS Certificates
• Homecare Business and administrative work experience strongly preferred
• Strong computer and phone skills(Word, Excel, Outlook, Google Workplace etc)
• Excellent communication skills

• Duty Manager
•  Medical Officer
• Cardiovascular Nurse
•  Homecare Coordinator
• Homecare Lecturer
• Regional Business Development Executive
• Accounts Payable Officer
• Bio-medical Supervisor
• Transport Coordinator
• Reception In-Charge

Apply By > 04, Nov 2024

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