Hospital Medical Superintendent Jobs description

JOB DESCRITION OF 

MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT

 Date & Time:

Job Title: M.S

Qualification & Experience: MBBS & MPH / MHM or equivalent Recognized by PMDC/PMC

BPS:19/20

• Job Summary

Medical Superintendent is the overall administrative and co-coordinative in charge of hospital functioning. He exercises administrative and Partial Financial powers allocated to him under delegation of administrative and financial Powers / Rules.He achieves his goals by planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, delegating, monitoring, controlling, regulating various functions.Ensures best possible medical services within the available resources. Evolves strategies to develop/improve financial resources of the hospital and optimizes patient satisfaction.

Duties / Responsibilities

Administrative

• Acts as member of BOD, [Hospital Name]and participates in its quarterly meetings.
• Ensures the implementation of decision of BOD, [Hospital Name].
• Ensures medical cover in emergency arising due to floods, heavy rains, epidemics or disaster situation like major accidents or earthquakes.
• Overall responsible for delivery of preventive, curative, rehabilitative and promotive health care.
• Sanctions leave of the officers/officials of SITH as per delegation/ rules.
• Constitutes a Planning Committee to make and execute Facility Health Plan to improve health care system and its delivery.
• Ensures regular maintenance / prompt repair of all the equipment of the hospital for keeping it in working order at all times by Co-ordinating with responsible.
• Delegates administrative powers to his subordinate administrative staff for smooth functioning of the hospital.
• Prepares Disaster Plan and ensure its implementation through regular drills and revisions.
• Responsible for developing and smooth functioning of the health management systems through proper and timely collection of statistics from all source points.
• Reviews the hospital services quarterly to know about defects and lapses and takes measures to improve these.
• Holds regular meetings with clinical staff in order to keep in touch with their problems if any, and to have an appraisal of the services provided by them.
• Assigns duties to his subordinate administrative staff.
• Leads the Waste Disposal Committee to take care of the disposal of human tissues, other wastes etc according to SOP’s.
• Leads the Infection Control Committee to ensure actions according to SOP’s.
• Adapts broader Policies/Protocols/SOP’s to meet local requirements/ conditions to make those specific and ensures that every employee is conversant with these for ease of functionality and conformance.
• Recruitment, promotion and transfer of staff within the hospital as authorized by SIMC Administration.
• Submits the disciplinary cases & takes Action Accordingly.
• Conducts at least one round of hospital weekly in order to meet the patients to ensure their satisfaction, find out their problems, see history sheets at random to check the standard of written clinical notes of doctors & compliance of nurses, provision of medical facilities, treatment accordingly and general cleanliness of hospital to ensure conformance to Minimum Service Delivery Standards.
• Checks that expense book / Empty Vial register / Stock Registers, etc. are being maintained.
• Conducts at least one surprised round of hospital departments and support services in a week in order to ensure that they are doing their JOBs as prescribed and are helping/supporting the clinical services to be delivered in conformance to Minimum Service Delivery Standards.
• Identifies the deficiencies in performance of the staff during visits and suggest corrective measures in consultation with relevant staff.
• Reviews the hospital MIS reports and provide feedback to the concerned as appropriate.
• Issues Job Descriptions to each employee under their signatures a=l;
• Maintains that record.
• Initiates the Objective Performance Evaluation Reports of the officers/officials of SITH.
• Countersigns the Objective Performance Evaluation Reports of officers/ officials initiated by the officers under his direct control.
• Ensures submission of MIS reports of hospital as per laid down format & details
• Ensures that procedures & protocols as amended from time to time and as given in MSDS, SOPs and SMPs are complied with.
• Heads Condemnation Committee.

Training

• Ensures appropriate training of concerned personnel to enable them to perform duties effectively as laid down in the objectives of the health care deliverance.
• Receives trainings as and when organized by the Concerned quarter.