MEDICAL DOCTOR SPECIALIST (PHYSICIAN)
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Job Description
Institute Overview
- Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a leading research organization in Africa with a strong track record in developing, testing and validating innovations for health. Driven by a core strategic mandate for research, training and services, the Institute's work now spans a wide spectrum, covering biomedical and ecological sciences, intervention studies, health-systems research, service delivery and policy translation.
Position Summary - Ifakara Health Institute is seeking a qualified Medical Doctor Specialist (Physician) who will be stationed at Bagamoyo Office under SINCEP- Africa project reporting to the Project Leader. The position is responsible for implementation of ICH-GCP, local regulatory and ethical requirements on the provision of the clinical safety and emergency-readiness function through which BCTF ensures that appropriate personnel, equipment, medicines, monitoring systems, referral pathways and transfer arrangements are available for safe trial conduct. The unit translates trial-specific risks into operational requirements, verifies readiness before trial activation and dosing, and oversees emergency assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, referral and transfer capability across the facility. This is an internal advert, internal applicants are encouraged to apply this role.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of resuscitation, stabilization, referral and hospital-transfer requirements.
- Competence in clinical-trial risk assessment and participant-safety oversight.
- Ability to assess protocol, investigational-product and population-specific risks.
- Advanced clinical judgement and emergency-response competence.
- Ability to define appropriate monitoring, staffing, medical-cover and emergency arrangements.
- Competence in evaluating emergency equipment, clinical monitoring and facility readiness.
- Ability to lead emergency simulations and corrective-action follow-up.
- Strong knowledge of GCP, delegation and PI oversight requirements.
- Ability to assess personnel qualifications, training and competence.
- Strong leadership, decision-making, escalation and multidisciplinary coordination skills.
- Clear written and verbal communication.
- High attention to detail, accountability and commitment to participant safety. Team worker, able to work in a multi culture environment, punctual and with high integrity.
- Medical Doctor Specialist (Physician) with current professional registration.
- Current GCP and recognised advanced life-support certification or approved equivalent.
- Relevant clinical-trial and recent emergency-management experience.
- Competence in resuscitation, stabilisation, transfer, clinical risk assessment, emergency-cover planning and readiness verification procedures.
- Clear written and verbal communication (English & Swahili).
Disclaimer!
Ifakara Health Institute does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process. Please disregard written or oral request for a job offer or an interview that you believe is or might be fraudulent or suspicious.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensures that approved procedures for emergency assessment, resuscitation, stabilisation and hospital transfer are in place and operational.
- Ensures that referral-hospital, ambulance, out-of-hours medical and escalation arrangements are formally agreed, current and accessible to relevant personnel.
- Verifies that minimum requirements for clinical monitoring, medical cover and emergency readiness are applied across the facility.
- Reviews and approves emergency-trolley configuration, dosing-bed suitability, alarm coverage and emergency-access arrangements.
- Leads the emergency-scenario programme and ensures that attendance, findings, lessons and corrective actions are documented.
- Reviews clinical-readiness deficiencies, assigns corrective actions and escalates unresolved risks to the Head of Facility.
- Reviews each trial risk assessment to determine whether BCTF's standing clinical and emergency capability is sufficient.
- Specifies additional monitoring, rescue treatment, specialist support, staffing, medical presence and trial-specific emergency arrangements required before activation.
- Ensures that referral pathways, transfer information, emergency equipment and clinical cover are appropriate to the protocol and investigational product risks.
- Verifies completion of required mitigations before recommending trial activation and dosing.
- Reassesses readiness where the protocol, safety information, participant population or risk profile changes.
- Ensures that the following activities are assigned by the PI to appropriately qualified, trained and competent personnel and documented in the study-specific delegation log;-
o Medical-history and eligibility review;
o Participant clinical assessment and monitoring;
o Dosing-day and post-dose medical cover;
o Participant-specific safety review;
o Application of protocol stopping or escalation criteria; and
o Protocol-specific emergency, referral and transfer duties.
About Ifakara Health Institute
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) – or simply Ifakara - is a leading health research organization in Africa, with a strong track record of developing, testing and validating innovations for health. We are driven by core strategic mandate for research, training and services. Ifakara encompasses a broad range of scientific disciplines, spanning from basic biomedical and ecological sciences to clinical trials, health systems research, policy translation, and health program implementation.
Ifakara work is organized in three research departments, six research units and seven technical support units. The research departments are: Environmental Health & Ecological Sciences (EHES), Interventions & Clinical Trials (ICT), and Health Systems, Impact Evaluation & Policy (HSIEP).
The research units are: Grants and Contracts, Training & Capacity Building, Laboratories, Data Systems and Platforms, Vector Control Product Testing, and Chronic Diseases Clinics. The technical units, which are supporting research (our primary activity) are: Internal Audit, Knowledge Management and Communications, Finance Management, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Branch Management and Information & Communication Technology. We have three major offices in Tanzania (Ifakara, Bagamoyo & Dar es Salaam).
Vision
A healthy and empowered population with access to evidence-based health services and solutions
Mission
To be a centre of excellence that informs health policies and delivery of quality services collaboratively through research, innovation, capacity strengthening and program implementation