Job Description: RMO (Resident Medical Officer).
• A professional approach must be adopted with all patients, staff and visitors. RMOs
must work within their level of experience and competence and highlight verbally and
in writing to the nurse in charge if they are being asked to work outside the level of
their competences.
• To provide medical cover, routine and emergency, during hours of duty and work in
conjunction with the other RMO to provide a 24-hour service to the hospital.
• To clerk in and assess urgent admissions as required when the relevant consultant is
not immediately available.
• To undertake a morning and evening ward round daily and if possible, with a
member of the nursing staff when available ensuring patients are visited where
appropriate.
• To make an entry in the patient’s notes as appropriate following ward rounds or any
other patient examinations, communication or
NOTE: Relocation allowance will be given.
Candidate should be an immediate joiner