Paediatric Consultant at Lily Hospitals Limited

Lily Hospitals Limited, established since 1986 remains one of the foremost hospitals in Nigeria and within the South-South region of the country. It is the first private hospital in Nigeria to achieve ISO 9001:2000 quality management system certification from the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) and was also recently accredited with COHSASA (Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa) Certificate.

We are also consistently committed to high standards; continuous improvement, service excellence, organizational citizenship, and outstanding work ethics. Currently running residency training programs in family medicine and radiology.  Lily Hospitals is also involved in housemanship training, internship training in Pharmacy and Radiology.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Paediatric Consultant

Location: Benin, Edo
Type:  Full Time
Job Category: Management Level

Job Summary

• This role is responsible for providing high quality clinical care to patients requiring pediatric services in the hospital.

Key Result Areas (KRA)
The key result areas of this role are:

• To provide quality medical care to patients and supervise the delivery of quality healthcare by all  junior medical personnel
• Provide expert advice to referring clinicians on the most appropriate diagnostic investigations.
• Formulating plans of management
• Contribute to quality patient care by participating in case planning with other members of the patient medial team.
• Coordinating appropriate consultation with other specialty departments and services
• Interacting with other health professionals, including nursing and allied health staff, in provision of ongoing clinical care to patients
• Maintaining the patient clinical record by ensuring appropriate and timely communication to other health care providers and ongoing patient care post hospital stay.

Administrative Functions:

• Manage the administrative requirements of the hospital, patient care summaries and medico-legal correspondence
• Be aware of and adhere to all Lily Hospital policies and procedure in reference to clinical practice.
• Coordinate the departmental activities with those of the hospital
• Ensure accomplishment of quality training in the department.

The Person

• The job holder must have a license to practice medicine from the Nigerian Medical and Dental Association, West African College or any other relevant specialist qualification body.
• The job holder must have good communication skills,  strong ability to work well under pressure, self discipline and excellent long term concentration.
• Job holder must have a working knowledge of global quality assurance, clinical audit principles and processes and must exhibit commitment towards continuous quality improvement.
• Minimum of 3 years cognate experience
• Must show evidence of competence in management of pediatric cases and evidence of active participation in relevant research.

Remuneration
Salary in line with industry standard.

Application closing date
21st September, 2018.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their word doc CV's only to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.