Driver Job Opportunities – Mengo Hospital
Job Title: Driver
Organization: Mengo Hospital
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Hospital Administrator
About US:
Mengo Hospital was founded in 1897 in Kampala, and is the oldest hospital in Uganda. It currently serves as an urban community hospital that provides modern medical care. Mengo Hospital provides comprehensive care including radiology, obstetrics, dentistry, orthopedics, and surgery. Additionally, Mengo Hospital provides critical training and education to health professionals through its various programs in midwifery and nursing, health sciences, and laboratory technology. Mengo Hospital also has a dedicated research and development team that works to find new solutions to health issues in Uganda.
Job Summary: The Driver will ensure availability of safe, clean and reliable vehicles for hospital staff, guests, and/or any other assigned passenger.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Tasked with driving assigned passengers to required destinations and being on call at all times.
- Delivering messages, documents, parcels and letters as required.
- Noting vehicle mileage to track departure and return schedules.
- Providing support to other hospital drivers on call.
- Performing defensive driving techniques, passenger protection and customer care at all times.
- Ensuring vehicle maintenance including:
- Notifying management to renew vehicle licenses and insurance.
- Ensuring vehicle service is on schedule.
- Maintaining a functional log book as instructed.
- Ensuring that the vehicle is clean
- Ensuring that vehicle defects/mechanical breakdowns are reported timely
- Checking the vehicle routinely and compiling service reports.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Driver job opportunity should preferably hold an O’ level certificate, mechanical engineering or basic mechanics qualification from a recognized institution
- Hold a clean and valid driving permit
- At least three years’ driving experience preferably from a hospital setting.
- Possession of a defensive driving certificate is an added advantage
- Possession of a mechanical engineering certificate is an added advantage
- Excellent organizational skills i.e. team work orientation, effective communication, customer service, personal integrity, confidentiality of medical information, ability to check minor vehicle defects
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should submit their application letters with updated CVs, copies of academic/training certificates and testimonials, professional membership certificates indicating three (3) referees with their valid contacts/email addresses addressed to:
Medical Director,
Mengo Hospital,
P.O. Box 7161, Kampala. Uganda
E-mail to: hrmanager@mengohospital.org
Deadline: Friday 19th January 2018 by 5:00 pm
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