Job: Mobile Outreach Clinic

Clinical Officer  (2) 

Specific duties and responsibilities include the following but are not limited to the job specifications contained below: 

• Collect a complete past medical history and ongoing complaint
• Assess and perform a comprehensive clinical examination of the patient using diagnostic tests available in an appropriate way
• Provide ANC and PNC minimum services
• Prescribes appropriate treatment and plans a proper follow-up (if the date of the next mobile clinic is known) 
• Ensure a proper handover is written for the transfer of the patient. Advise patients on how to give the feedback referral (by phone or coming to the next scheduled mobile clinic date)
• Open file for NCDs (chronic diseases) 
• Ensures that all medical protocols are being adhered to
• Makes referrals, 
• Completes and submits patient records, 
• Coordinates with other team members
• Compile progress reports – monthly, quarterly and annual 
• Responsible for preparing monthly schedules and share with the supervisor
• Accountable for missed appointment visits
• Serve as a primary health care provider both at static and outreach clinic services 
• To examine patients, prescribe treatment and provide high quality clinical care in accordance with Malawi national guidelines
• To provide maternal and neonatal health care services
• Maintain a clean work environment as required by the Ministry of Health and Medical Council of Malawi 
• Ensure and maintain an environment where the patient’s needs are prioritized
• Make sure that all what is required is in order
• Make sure that all the necessary tools used in the clinic are available and report where necessary in case of anything missing
• Participate in compilation, analysis, and utilization of data 
• Participate in program evaluation and provide recommendations for improvement 
• Participate in loading and off-loading of all necessary tools used in the outreach clinics 
• Perform any reasonable work-related duties as assigned by the supervisor
• Use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in adding diagnosis, prescriptions, laboratory orders, and complaints e.t.c
• Compile and submit reports to the supervisor on monthly basis 

Nurse (1) – Stabilization, dressing, injections  

• Ensure that first aid treatment, stabilization or resuscitation is done promptly
• Dressings are performed according to patients’ needs, respecting hygiene rules
• Ensures that all medical protocols are being adhered to
• Ensure that infection prevention practices are adhered to 
• Responsible for the administration of parental medications per the doctor’s prescription
• Ensure that patients attendance provides support to patients accordingly
• Participate in program evaluation and provide inputs on a remedial action plan. 

1. Maintaining an environment where the patient’s needs are first.
2. Providing prenatal, deliveries and postnatal care to patients
3. Conducting prenatal clinics including maintaining appropriate logs.
4. Manage postnatal patients to provide appropriate services following a delivery.
5. Triaging patients and conducting initial evaluation for the maternity and outpatient clinics.
6. Ensure patients are receiving medicine as prescribed.
7. Continually provide training to Patient Care Attendants regarding patient care and management.
8. Conducting family planning clinics and providing appropriate training to clients.
9. Working with the Clinical Officer – Maternal and Newborn Health to screen patients for cervical cancer.
10. Working with the Clinical Officer – Public Health to support public health programs as needed.
11. Participate in outreach clinics/programs as required.
12. Maintaining patient records and ensuring accurate data. 
13. Evaluating programs and providing recommendations for improvement.
14. Maintaining records and providing reports as requested.
15. Dispense medicine in pharmacy and give injectable drugs in treatment room
16. Provide ART/PMTCT and initiate patients with HIV on ART
17. Performing duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Nurse (1) – ANC, Cervical Cancer Screening, and FP

• Ensure only eligible clients can utilize VIA services. 
• Ensure that ANC is provided according to protocols
• VIA screening is performed according to protocol and, privacy and confidentiality are adhered to
• Ensure that infection prevention practices are adhered to 
• Responsible for referring clients suspected of lesions to KHC for treatment 
• Ensure that an HIV test is done on all clients before the procedure
• Participate in program evaluation and provide inputs on a remedial action plan. 

1. Maintaining an environment where the patient’s needs are first.
2. Providing prenatal, deliveries and postnatal care to patients
3. Conducting prenatal clinics including maintaining appropriate logs.
4. Manage postnatal patients to provide appropriate services following a delivery.
5. Triaging patients and conducting initial evaluation for the maternity and outpatient clinics.
6. Ensure patients are receiving medicine as prescribed.
7. Continually provide training to Patient Care Attendants regarding patient care and management.
8. Conducting family planning clinics and providing appropriate training to clients.
9. Working with the Clinical Officer – Maternal and Newborn Health to screen patients for cervical cancer.
10. Working with the Clinical Officer – Public Health to support public health programs as needed.
11. Participate in outreach clinics/programs as required.
12. Maintaining patient records and ensuring accurate data. 
13. Evaluating programs and providing recommendations for improvement.
14. Maintaining records and providing reports as requested.
15. Dispense medicine in pharmacy and give injectable drugs in treatment room
16. Provide ART/PMTCT and initiate patients with HIV on ART
17. Performing duties as assigned by   Supervisor.

Lab Technician (1)

• Responsible for sample collection and testing.
• Ensure that the laboratory meets all of the requirements of MoH and MCM.
• Maintaining laboratory records and providing monthly lab reports
• Making recommendations for the acquisition of lab tools and equipment
• Ensure that there is zero stock out of lab supplies.
• Participate in program evaluation and provide inputs on a remedial action plan

Pharmacy Assistant (1)

• Press orders and conduct reconciliation of medical supplies with the pharmacy lead at the hub. 
• Responsible for drug dispensing and giving instructions on how to use and store
• Accountable for the shortage of drugs
• Receiving prescriptions from clinicians and checking dosages before   
• Record data in relevant registers
• Monitor drugs using HIMS tools and guidelines and report to the supervisor as required
• Maintaining pharmacy records and compiling data then reporting to the supervisor on monthly basis.
• Participate in the requisition of medical supplies from shortlisted suppliers
• Ensure that stock cards are up to update 
• Preparing drugs for dispensing by pre-packing medication that is regularly dispensed.
• Reviewing prescriptions to ensure accuracy.
• Issuing medication to patients and instructing on dosage, storage, and disposal, if necessary.
• Maintain records and provide appropriate records on donor or government funded medication.
• Managing the pharmacy inventory to include tracking medication that are nearing expiration.
• Store medication safely according to the required storage recommendations.
• Maintaining and sustaining an environment where the patient’s needs are first.
• Participate in outreach programs as required.
• Maintaining records and ensuring accurate data. 
• Evaluating programs and providing recommendations for improvement.
• Performing duties as assigned by the Clinical Officer – Public Health.

Driver (1)

• Driving the MOC team to the field 
• Driving referred patients to the proposed health facilities 
• Maintains cleanliness of the MOC vehicle
• Ensure that preventive maintenance of the vehicle is on time and according to the schedule 
• Arranges movements to reach the site
• Is responsible for the team and patient security
• Coordinate with the facility coordinator for materials needed to perform medical activities: tents, tables, chairs, water, soap, coolers for drugs, towels, plastic boxes, etc.

Patient attendant (1)

• Ensure that the environment is clean and arrange the flow of the patients
• Welcoming and giving directions to patients
• Checking patients’ vital signs- body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate, oxygenation, and, if adult, blood pressure and record them in the health passport book
• Triaging patients in the severity and infectious of the condition –  If there are any signs or symptoms of an emergency, the patient is sent to the emergency room
• Taking care of the patient’s wounds under the supervision of the nurse
• Being responsible for the chain of medical waste treatment (collection, sorting, destruction, dumping) 

1. Maintaining and sustaining an environment where the patient’s needs are first.
2. Assist the nurses in providing prescribed treatment to patients.
3. Assisting patients with feeding and personal hygiene.
4. Attending to patient needs and/or complaints and ensuring they are addressed in a timely manner including reporting such needs or complaints to the nurses.
5. Supporting triage efforts and regularly monitoring patient vital signs
6. Maintaining a clean and good sanitary environment
7. Maintaining records as assigned by supervisor
8. Assisting patients with mobility as needed.
9. Participate in outreach programs as required.
10. Maintaining patient records and ensuring accurate data.  
11. Providing recommendations for improvement to supervisor.
12. Gathering and removing litter within the clinic immediately upon being noticed.
13. Enforcing rules relative to a clean clinic environment.
14. Educating visitors and patients of the need to maintain a clean environment
15. Conducting health education or talks to patients 
16. Educating visitors and patients on the proper use of the restrooms.
17. Assisting in wound dressing
18. Assist in recording data in laboratory and pharmacy
19. Sanitizing door knobs and other frequently handled areas
20. Performing duties as assigned by the Nurses, Clinicians or Supervisor.

Qualifications  

• MSCE or Its Equivalent
• The candidate should have worked with OCA for at least 1 year. 

Key Competencies

• Passion to care for patients
• Able to work odd hours
• Honesty
• Attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• Good teamwork
• Respect of Organizational values

Cashier/Data Clerk (1)

• Collecting data from patients and recording it in HMIS registers 
• Collect patients’ fees in the field and on daily basis reconcile with the administrative officer.
• Ensure that documentation is done correctly in all M&E tools
• Ensure that all registers are available at each visit. 
• Ensure that data is recorded in the Mizu.

Patient Care Attendant/ Health Promoter (1)

• Welcome and inform patients and their families about the patient flow from triage to consultation
• Orient the patients to the triage per the order of arrival (in general women and children first, then elderlies and men last),
• Control the crowd control when need be.
• Conduct health talks to empower the community to demand and use services responsibly
• In case of emergency case, the patient is sent directly to the stabilization room, according to triage criteria.
• Engage with the community and sensitizes people about the date of the MOC. 
• Assist with language interpretation if applicable.
• Provide assistance and counseling to clients on a variety of issues
• Assess the social needs of clients and helps to make connections to health and social services 
• Assist with building a support network and maintains a cordial relationship with the community.

Application instructions: Applicants should submit the following application materials: CV, copies of certificates, cover letter and three professional references through the following email address: [email protected]

Applications may also be hand delivered to Orant Charities Africa premises situated at Kasese Health Centre or sent to the following address; The Country Director, Orant Charities Africa, P/bag 365,Lilongwe. Only short-listed applicants will be invited for interviews. No telephone inquiries please.

Application deadline: Monday, 5th December, 2023.

Disclaimer

OCA is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, colour, sex, gender or gender identity, religion, language, political or other opinion, age, disability, property, birth, marital or other status or family responsibilities unrelated to job requirements. OCA will take affirmative action to ensure that qualified applicants are employed and that employees are treated without regard to their race, age, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, religion, language, political or other opinion, disability, property, birth, marital or other status or family responsibilities.