Clinical Officer – Marie Stopes International Ethiopia
Health Care
Marie Stopes International Ethiopia
Marie Stopes International (MSI) is one of the largest international Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and Family Planning (FP) organizations in the world. We are a results oriented social enterprise that develop efficient, effective and sustainable SRH/FP programmes around the world.
Marie Stopes International Ethiopia (MSIE), a partner of MSI, is currently undertaking a dramatic scale-up of health service delivery for low income women and couples in Ethiopia. This includes expanding services in clinics and rural outreach programs into new regions of Ethiopia and creating social franchising networks of private quality service providers. MSIE announces information about job vacancies widely and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. MSIE considers all applicants based on their abilities and will ensure no group is disadvantaged on the basis of disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, economic or social class, sex, HIV/AIDs status and political affiliation.
MSIE also implements a Safeguarding Policy to safeguard and protect the rights of staff, children, young people and vulnerable sections of the community and to this end, successful candidates will need to sign MSIE’s ‘code of conduct’ and undergo a background check. The Safeguarding Policy includes an adult Safeguarding, dignity at work place, child safeguarding, human trafficking and anti-slavery, sexual harassment, equality and diversity. MSIE applies zero tolerance approach for the violation such policies.
MSIE is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to hiring and retaining female employees. The organization has flexible policies including: travel policy for pregnant and lactating women, flexible work hour for non-clinic staff without reducing the total working hour. Women employees have access to on-job mentorship which aim to create gender-sensitive and inclusive work environment. As such, qualified women are encouraged to apply
About You:
We want individuals who support our mission of eliminating unsafe abortion by 2030 and who work with us to build an enabling environment to increase access to safe services everywhere. We expect all team members to share our vision and commitment to achieving our mission whilst promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of all clients and colleagues.
1. JOB SUMMARY
Overall Responsibility
Under the supervision center manager and technical direction from the quality department, the clinical officer performs client examinations, diagnoses, identifies health problems, and delivers prescriptions/procedures to clients in accordance with accepted standard medical practices and the professional code of conduct at MSIE Centers
1. DUTIES/TASKS
- Examines in and outpatients /clients in line with standard medical procedures using various types of diagnostic mechanisms.
- Administers and prescribes drugs based on analysis of examination, test reports and findings, and counseling services.
- Provide SRH services (Safe abortion care, comprehensive family planning, ANC and PNC consultation, general health) to visiting clients per after required training and competency assessment.
- Adherence to national medical practice protocols and MSIE clinical protocols while providing clinical service.
- Adherence to the duty of care statement and client-centric care standard set by MSIE.
- Adherence to clinical record keeping and documentation in an electronic health record system
- Puts the interest of clients/patients above all other considerations and ensures the confidentiality of all cases.
- Undertakes any other related duties that may be assigned to him/her.
Other Responsibilities
- Support in center service promotion and demand creation by doing field visits to nearby referral points, organizing community conversation sessions and distributing referral cards to referral points, and motivating the current client to refer other needy clients
- Actively participate in center business development related tasks assigned by supervisor
PERSON SPECIFICATION
A. Qualification Requirements
a. Education
- BSc degree as Health Officer or BSc in nursing
b. Experiences
- Minimum 2 years of experience in the provision of Clinical Services and experience on SRH services Provision is preferred
B. Skills, Attitudes, and Attributes
- Committed to the protection of team members and clients, with a focus on vulnerable groups.
- Able to role-model inclusive and culturally sensitive attitudes and behaviors
- Awareness of MOH and donors’ guidelines
- Conscious of government, MSI, and MSIE regulations
- Awareness of concepts and strategies of quality care
- Attendance of MSIE Pre-service training
- Client-centered care approaches Pro-Choice
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Megenagna BEMONC
As per MSI Ethiopia Reproductive Choice Salary Scale
