Job Description

SOS Children’s Villages invite applications from suitably qualified and interested candidates who fulfill the eligibility criterion for the below position.

Position title     :           Obs./Gyn   Doctor

Reporting to     :           Doctor-in-Charge (OBS/GYN)

Location          :           Baidoa-SW -Somalia

Job summary:

The Obs & Gynecology Doctor oversees all activities within the SOS Baidoa District Hospital in order to achieve the highest level of medical care possible. The incumbent supervises co-ordinates and oversees the daily work of other medical staff. In addition, s/he maintains a close involvement with patient health-care, and personally attends to more complex cases referred by the nurses.

Job Responsibilities:

Main duties and Responsibilities:

Ø  Take History, examination, investigation, resuscitation, management and care of newborn’s

Ø  Do Triaging, assessment, admission and management of acutely ill children in the emergency ward

Ø  Conduct ward rounds.

Ø  Perform emergency cesarean section(C/Section) and gynecological cases if needed.

Ø  Perform Referral services for complicated cases.

Ø  Do History taking, assessment, investigation and management of children attending outpatient department.

Ø  Triaging, assessment, admission, care and management of under-fives with moderate to severe acute malnutrition

Ø  Do Assessment, investigation, classification and management of mild, moderate and sever forms of different diseases

Ø  Do Management and reporting of common communicable diseases

Ø  Provide Health education to clients and communities.

Ø  Reviewing frequently severe cases who admitted in the wards of  Obs & Gynocology  or in the  pediatric units.

Ø  Attending night shifts in providing patient care.

Ø  Consult with doctor in charge for all complicated cases and the cases required immediate consultation.

Ø  Flexibility, good character is mandatory.

Ø  Acts as the in charge of both the maternity and Operation theatre and oversees all activities including medical treatment and medical administration.

Ø  Perform any other reasonable task as assigned by the immediate supervisor from time to time.

Experiences and Qualifications

Essential

• Candidate must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery with (2-3) two to three years’ experience in managing similar project.
• Team-player and ability to work independently.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively engage with children, families, and community members.
• Experience in providing BEMONC, CEMONC, Child health, communicable diseases and none communicable diseases in a busy hospital or referral health center. 
• Organizational and time management skills to prioritize tasks.
• Demonstrated competency in staff capacity building.
• Collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Able to provide Basic Life Support to women and newborns
• Ability to ensure strong community engagement as well as school-based management team and sustain professional working relationship.
• A good communicator with other midwives, Nurses, doctors, support staff, individuals, families and Para patients.
• People skills such as problem solving & handling conflict
• Report writing skills 

Child Safeguarding Policy:

SOS Children’s Villages Somalia holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates’ value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes. SOS Children’s Villages organization is committed to safeguarding the rights of the children and therefore, is expected that every individual who joins with SOS Children’s Villages Somalia understands his/her responsibility in protecting and keeping children always safe

Skills Required

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