Description

Position Title: Infectious Diseases Specialist

Duty station: Botsabelo Hospital, Lesotho

Reports to: Chief Medical Officer, Partners In Health-Lesotho

Position Overview

Partners In Health Lesotho (PIHL) seeks an experienced infectious diseases physician to support the PIHL-supported health facilities. PIHL has been consciously working to provide high quality and dignified health services in 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.