Clinical Officer Reproductive Health at International Rescue Committee

Program Activities:

• Conduct daily ward rounds in the maternity.
• Ensure patient management is in line with the set MOH, WHO and UNHCR guidelines and protocols.
• Attend to all maternal and newborn health emergencies.
• Ensure proper and accurate documentation of patient management in patient in the EMR.
• Assist in surgical procedures such as elective and emergency obstetric cases.  
• Operate the special high risk pregnancy outpatient clinic.
• Recommend timely referrals for both obstetric/gynecological related Emergency and elective cases to secondary and tertiary care centers
• Organize and facilitate targeted RH related Continuous Medical Education (CME) sessions within the department.
• Take lead in ensuring the work improvement teams (WITs) are institutionalized and are working.
• Perform obstetric ultrasounds.
• Attend and participate in the daily morning hospital handover and bi-weekly hospital meetings.
• Participate in maternal and perinatal mortality and near-miss audits to improve quality of care for patients.
• Participate in the periodic Quality of Care Assessments
• Conduct periodic and scheduled skills gap assessments for maternity nurse/midwives and provide targeted supportive supervision/coaching on maternal, newborn, sexual and reproductive health competencies.

Reporting and Coordination:

• Assist in preparation of periodic progress reports as requested by the HM.
• Monitor closely the maternal and newborn health related morbidity and mortality trends to ensure that prompt actions are taken.
• Work with the maternity team to ensure maternity specific MPDSR action points are tracked and actioned in time.

Others

• Carry out other relevant duties as may be required or assigned by your supervisor.

Key Result Areas

• Quality of care in the maternal and newborn health service
• Ensure quality emergency obstetric and newborn care in maternity ward.
• Prompt referral of patients
• Proper documentation of patient care in the EMR.

Qualifications

• Diploma in clinical medicine from a recognized institution
• Higher diploma in reproductive health from a recognized institution
• Must be registered with clinical officer council of Kenya and have a valid practicing license.