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Cashier/ Senior Assistant, Cashiering
Job role
Handle cash and credit payments, make change, give receipts, account for all payments, and perform clerical duties related to meeting the AKUH cashiering needs for internal and external customers as well as reconciliation of related control accounts.
Key responsibilities
- Attend to all customer queries in the department.
- Issue receipts of cash and/or credit transactions from external customers
- Issue receipts of collections from various cash collecting departments
- Post payments against authorized vouchers and open cheques
- Give change to the various departments within the hospital.
- Acknowledge, record and file the private doctors fee notes
- Receipt mailed cheques and direct banking records in a prompt manner, then bank them
- Bank cash collections and open night packets with the chief cashier
- Act in the absence of the supervisor when called upon
- Prepare daily collections and reconciliations
- Complete any other tasks as may be assigned by the supervisor or manager.
Qualifications and skills requirements:
- CPA part I or an equivalent qualification
- KCSE minimum grade of C+
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel for reconciliations and reports
- Minimum of 2 years work experience in a busy cash office
- Excellent Customer service skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail and highly organized.
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Person of high integrity with a positive attitude towards work.
- A team player with good organizational and communication skills
Cardiac Perfusionist, Operating Room
Responsibilities:
- Performs duties to support cardiopulmonary bypass; maintains and demonstrates competency in the performance of all responsibilities.
- Appropriate choice and use of disposable and heart-lung machine equipment and safety devices for the performance of CPB.
- Appropriate maintenance, according to hospital practice guidelines, of the patient’s physiological parameters/variables during CPB.
- Prepares for surgery by assembling extracorporeal circuit, including connecting tubing, oxygenators, pumps and filters. Primes and de-bubbles circuit.
- Prepares, administers and monitors flow of prescribed solutions and medications including circuit prime, cardioplegia, and blood products used during procedures requiring extracorporeal support.
- Develops perfusion care plan and calculates appropriate perfusion formulae to be communicated during preoperative briefing.
- Manages extracorporeal circuits to achieve conditions ordered by surgeon, including CPB, deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA), coronary perfusion, veno-venous bypass, or partial bypass.
- Maintains supply of blood in system and makes any adjustments needed to achieve conditions specified by surgeon or anesthesiologist, such as changes in blood temperature, oxygen/carbon dioxide ratio in blood, or patients’ electrolytes.
- Receives and interprets blood gas values and assesses adequacy of perfusion. Adjusts and monitors heart-lung machine settings according to clinical practice guidelines for CPB.
- Monitors and maintains anticoagulation according to clinical practice guidelines for CPB.
- Disassembles extracorporeal circuits and mechanical components of the heart/lung machine and cleans all non-disposable items and disposes of contaminated materials.
- Records, updates and maintains permanent records of all cardiovascular bypass procedures.
- Participates in emergency operation of intra-aortic balloon pump during cardiac procedures.
- Prepares and manages extracorporeal support for complex vascular surgery, including descending aortic aneurysm repair.
- Prepares and manages blood conservation systems.
- Prepares and manages extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuits for veno-arterial and veno-venous support.
- Maintains a working knowledge of appropriate equipment and strategies utilized for complex cardiothoracic and vascular surgery
- Prepares and manages para-corporeal ventricular assist devices for patients requiring temporary ventricular support.
Requirements:
- Diploma from a Medical training College (basic)
- Certificate/Diploma in Perfusion Technology (Sub-speciality)
- Certificate in Basic Life Support (BLS)
- (Two) 2 years on the job perfusion training experience in a university teaching hospital.
- Certificates in: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Intra-aortic balloon pump, Biomedical pump, Auto transfusion, ECMO( Extra Copper Membrane Oxygenation)
- Demonstrates expert knowledge in normal heart function and the various diseases that afflict the heart
Cashier/ Senior Assistant, Cashiering
Cardiac Perfusionist, Operating Room