Medical Officer, COE

Medical Officer

Entity: Aga Khan University

Location: Rawalpindi

Introduction to the Aga Khan University:

Chartered in 1983 Aga Khan University (AKU) is a private autonomous and self-governing international university with 13 teaching sites in 6 countries distributed across three continents. As an integral part of the Aga Khan Development Network AKU provides higher education in several disciplines carries out research pertinent to the countries in which it exists and has campuses programs and/or teaching hospitals in Afghanistan Kenya Pakistan Tanzania Uganda and the UK. As an international institution AKU operates on the core principles of quality relevance impact and access; and AKU is a model of academic excellence and an agent of social change.

As an equal opportunity employer AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty staff trainees volunteers beneficiaries wider communities and other stakeholders with whom it works including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

This is a grant-funded contractual position.

Job Roles/Responsibilities:

Provide quality patient care and diagnostics to pregnant women at the field offices in the districts of Matiari Tando Muhammad Khn and Mithi including enrolment of patients serial evaluations including examinations and diagnostics data collection maintaining records and provide counselling.

• Identification of the patient for the ongoing study and also enrolled patient for the Research study;
• to follow up the research study patient and update schedule of visit;
• collect and maintain records of identified cases;
• ensure participation of community in Research project to increase case reporting;
• design and plan social mobilization strategies for community people to co-operate/collaborate with Research projects;
• to provide appropriate guidance to children screen positive with disability or malnourished;
• training of CHWs & Centre staff maintaining a working environment in the health centre;
• monitoring the data collection processes in the field;
• evaluating and Validating the data collected;
• development of data collection forms;
• provide training to field workers research assistants and other Junior Research Medical Officers;
• submit weekly and monthly progress report;
• any other task assigned by the Supervisor.
  

Requirements:

• MBBS;
• additional qualification at clinical side would be preferred;
• at least two years of experience;
• ability to work in a team;
• ability to establish harmonious working relations at the place of work;
• flexibility in taking over additional/new responsibilities when required by project;
• mature reliable and responsible;
• able to understand and follow instruction;
• ability to speak and understand job-related English and Urdu.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.