Medical Officer (3 positions) NGO Jobs in Uganda at Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP)

Role Title: Medical Officer (3 positions)

Reports to: Medical Officer Team Lead

Duty station: Kampala

Role definition: To offer specialized care and treatment to HIV infected patients according to MOH guidelines and MJAP policies.

Roles and Responsibilities
1. Obtain and document detailed medical history, perform appropriate physical examinations and carry out initial as well as ongoing evaluation of HIV-infected patients.
2. Prescribe medications to patients including emergency care to the very sick patients.
3. Select, recommend and initiate most appropriate antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all eligible patients according to MOH guidelines and MJAP patient care protocols.
4. Monitor toxicities; follow up on adherence and treatment response.
5. Request and interpret the necessary laboratory tests and radiological investigations for diagnosis as well as for monitoring and follow-up of patients on ART.
6. Evaluate and manage patients for opportunistic infections and Non communicable diseases including mental disorders, hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, as per national guidelines.
7. Provide continuous on job mentorship to nurses, counselors and nursing assistants at the clinic.
8. 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
9. 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
10. Ensure timely and accurate documentation of patient information in the various patient care registers and electronic data bases.
11. Provide technical assistance to community teams during the provision of HIV-TB services within the various differentiated service delivery models in the community
12. 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 and job specifications:
 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 2 year’ 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

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: recruitment@mjap.mak.ac.ug addressed to; The Human Resource Manager, Makerere University Joint AIDS Program (MJAP), not later than 21st October 2022 by 5:00pm.

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.