Position Title: Infectious Diseases Specialist
Duty station: Botsabelo Hospital, Lesotho
Reports to: Chief Medical Officer, Partners In Health-Lesotho
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Ensure quality of treatment and care to Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients at hospital and community level based on national and international treatment guidelines.
• Provide day-to-day high quality patients’ care for inpatients and out patients.
• Conduct daily ward round to review patients’ management and progress.
• Serve as a clinical consultant to PIH Lesotho supported health facilities including providing on-call night services to patients.
• Support and participate in all trainings organized by PIH-Lesotho for the health care workers within the country and from other countries.
• Lead the development and implementation of clinical trainings for PIHL.
• Lead the formalization of PIHL training curriculum.
• Lead the development of national protocols and guidelines on patient management for infectious diseases.
• Assist in developing a policy and strategy of infectious diseases.
• Participation in the National HIV/TB technical working groups.
Administrative & leadership
• Work with leadership from PIHL on training health care workers including doctors and nurses across PIHL supported health facilities.
• Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in the clinical care technical working group.
• Serve as a liaison between PIHL and Lesotho MoH on matters related to infectious diseases technical working groups under the direction of the Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director.
• Provide additional accompaniment to MoH in support of national clinical care improvement initiatives as need arises.
• Demonstrate leadership skills in problem solving, decision-making, priority setting, and effective delegation and communication.
Qualifications and minimum requirements
• Medicine degree from a fully accredited institution.
• Postgraduate training in infectious diseases specialty.
• Demonstrated expertise in management of infectious diseases.
• Experience in health systems strengthening in rural and/or resource-limited settings.
• Demonstrated ability in teaching and mentorship, including experience in organizing and leading clinical trainings.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to generate documents (e.g. reports, grants, training materials) within given deadlines.
• Ability to review scientific literature and best practices to inform drafting and revising context appropriate clinical guidance.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across diverse cultures with respect and humility.
• Personal and professional commitment to social justice.
Commitment to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment:
At Partners in Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and community members – as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partners in Health’s PSEAH policy. Partners in Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
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