Graduate Job Opportunities at Imo International Health Systems

Locations: Ikeduru, Ideto South and Okigwe Imo Health Systems
Report to: Medical Director

Job Summary

• The Physiotherapist helps accident victims, medical patients, and chronically disabled people maintain and improve their physical wellbeing by designing, implementing, and supervising custom treatment plans.
• They supervise patients’ progress and make adjustments to treatment plans as needed.
• These therapists can help patients maintain or restore flexibility, strength, and range of motion.

Responsibilities 

• Determining physical therapy treatment plans in consultation with physicians or by prescription.
• Helps patient accomplish treatment plan and accept therapeutic devices by administering manual exercises; instructing, encouraging, and assisting patients in performing physical activities, such as non-manual exercises, ambulatory functional activities, and daily-living activities and in using assistive and supportive devices, such as crutches, canes, and prostheses.
• Meets the patient’s goals and provides quality care by assessing and interpreting evaluations and test results
• Administers physical therapy treatments by giving massages, initiating traction, applying physical agents, moist packs, ultraviolet and infrared lamps, and ultrasound machines
• Evaluates effects of physical therapy treatments and fit of prosthetic and orthotic devices by observing, noting, and evaluating patient’s progress as well as recommending adjustments and modifications.
• Planning discharges by consulting with physicians, nurses, social workers, and other healthcare workers
• Assures continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing home exercise programs. Instructing patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs, recommending and/or providing assistive equipment as well as recommending outpatient or home health follow-up programs.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects hospital operations by keeping information confidential.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs.
• Develops physical therapy staff by providing information; developing and conducting in-service training programs.

Basic Qualifications 

• The individual must have minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy
• 1-2 years experience
• The individual must be computer literate

Other Qualifications: 

• Strong written, verbal and communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good attention to detail
• Productive and quality focused
• Ability to solve problems
• Drive to continue learning throughout career
• Good bedside manner

Locations: Ikeduru, Ideto South and Okigwe Imo Health Systems
Report to: Nurse Manager

Job Summary

• A Nursing Assistant is to provide basic care to patients, as well as assist them in daily activities they might have trouble with on their own, such as bathing.
• They should be compassionate and enjoy helping others.

Responsibilities 

• Provides patients’ personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
• Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.
• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.
• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients’ call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
• Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
• Enhances nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Basic Qualifications 

• The individual must have a minimum of a Nursing Assistant training certificate
• 1-2 years experience
• The individual must be computer literate

Other Qualifications: 

• Strong written, verbal and communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and bed side manner
• Good attention to detail and ability to solve problems
• Productive and quality focused
• Drive to continue learning throughout career