Job Title: Medical Officer (3 Fresher Job Opportunities)
Organisation: Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Medical Officer Team Lead
About US:
Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP) is a private-not-for profit Company under Makerere University. MJAP works to build partnerships and strengthen health systems to optimally respond to HIV/AIDS, TB, Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and other diseases of public health importance in Africa.
About the Program:
MJAP is implementing a sub-award grant from Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), for accelerating HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Kampala region; with funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Job Summary: To offer specialized care and treatment to HIV infected patients according to MOH guidelines and MJAP policies.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Obtain and document detailed medical history, perform appropriate physical examinations and carry out initial as well as ongoing evaluation of HIV-infected patients.
- Prescribe medications to patients including emergency care to the very sick patients.
- Select, recommend and initiate most appropriate antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all eligible patients according to MOH guidelines and MJAP patient care protocols.
- Monitor toxicities; follow up on adherence and treatment response.
- Request and interpret the necessary laboratory tests and radiological investigations for diagnosis as well as for monitoring and follow-up of patients on ART.
- Evaluate and manage patients for opportunistic infections and Non communicable diseases including mental disorders, hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, as per national guidelines.
- Provide continuous on job mentorship to nurses, counselors and nursing assistants at the clinic.
- Prepare and present challenging cases at the CME sessions as well as reviewing of different medical journals at the journal club according to the scheduled timetable
- Participate in the identification performance gaps; and participate in designing continuous improvement projects to provide quality comprehensive HIV/AIDS services to enhance prevention, care and treatment services
- Ensure timely and accurate documentation of patient information in the various patient care registers and electronic data bases.
- Provide technical assistance to community teams during the provision of HIV-TB services within the various differentiated service delivery models in the community
- Participate in capacity building activities at the MJAP including offering mentorships to pre service and frontline health workers at MJAP supported regions.
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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant must hold a Bachelors of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery or its equivalent from a recognized institution. Must be registered with the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council.
- At least two years’ experience in clinic or hospital-based services.
- Experience in HIV/AIDS and ART is added advantage.
Key personal competences
- Team and communication skills (both oral and written) and with strong management and analytical skills.
- Must be dynamic, Persuasive and convincing, self- motivated and able to demonstrate high initiative.
- Report writing skills in desirable reporting formats, Research and networking skills
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified candidates should apply via the email below clearly indicating position applied for in the subject line and submit their cover letters, a detailed curriculum vita and copies of relevant academic documents to: [email protected] addressed to;
The Human Resource Manager,
Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP).
Please ensure that your attachments do not exceed 5 MB.
We do appreciate your interest to work with MJAP. However, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 4 weeks after the submission deadline.
Deadline: 21st October 2022 by 5:00pm
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