Reserve Bank of India (RBI) invites application for the position Banks Medical Consultant
Location: Reserve Bank of India, Lisie Junction, Ernakulam North, P.B. No.3065, Kochi682018
Working Days: Monday to Saturday
Tentative Working Hours: 08.30 AM-11.30 AM
Remuneration: 1000/- per hour for the entire period of contract. Out of total monthly remuneration so payable, a sum of ₹1000/- per month may be treated as conveyance expense.
Eligibility, Terms & Conditions:
(i) Applicant should have a minimum MBBS degree of any university recognized by the Medical Council of India in the allopathic system of medicine.
(ii) Applicants having post graduate degree in General Medicine can also apply.
(iii) The Applicant should have a minimum of 2 (two) years of experience practicing medicine in any hospital or clinic.
(iv) The applicants should have his/her dispensary or place of residence within a radius of 3-5 kms from the Bank's dispensary at the aforementioned location.
(v) The remuneration of the Bank's Medical Consultant on contract basis will be fixed throughout the period of contract with reference to the actual duty hours performed and will be all inclusive.
(vi) The contract of engagement will be for a period of three years. There will not be any renewal of contract on completion of the contract. A fresh empanelment exercise will be undertaken after three years wherein existing doctors will be eligible to apply subject to the terms and conditions of the same.
Responsibilities:
1. To attend to the Banks' dispensary at Lisie Junction, Ernakulam North, P.B.No.3065, Kochi - 682018, during prescribed duty hours as mentioned in Para 2(vii) of the advertisement (or for longer periods as decided by the Bank) excluding Bank holidays except days declared as holidays for purposes of half yearly closing and annual closing subject to the condition that the dispensary will not be kept closed for two successive days.
2. To advise free of charge, prescribe medicines and administer injections free of charge to the members of the staff including staff of the Bank on tour, the eligible members of their families including dependent parents and the retired employee members/their spouses who are members of the Medical Assistance Fund Scheme, who present themselves during the dispensary timings (the timings and/or duration may be changed as and when considered necessary by the Bank). To be available for consultation at his/her private clinic in urgent cases in respect of employees of the Bank at any time with charges at the rate prescribed in the schedule. The Schedule of charges applicable to the Staff/Officers of the Bank would be made available on request.
3. To provide the facilities referred to in paragraph (2) above to the relatives of the employees who have been permitted to reside with them in the Quarters and facilitate recovery of charges from the employees for credit to the Bank's account at the rates prescribed by the Bank from time to time.
4. To perform duties similar to those of a General Medical Practitioner irrespective of whatever post-graduate or other medical qualifications you may possess / acquire in future. It shall be Bank's Medical Consultant's responsibility to ensure that the qualifications he/she hold or acquire in future do not restrict you in any manner from rendering the services required of a General Medical Practitioner and if as per any stipulations by the Indian Medical Association, the qualification he/she hold or acquire as the case may be comes into conflict with the Bank's requirements as indicated above, to work as a general practitioner, he/she will be required to ensure that no liability or responsibility on this account devolves on the Bank under any circumstances and shall indemnify and keep indemnified the Bank at all times against the same. Bank's Medical Consultant's liability will be that of an independent medical service provider and not that of an agent of the Bank.
5. Bank's Medical Consultant duties at the RBI dispensary will also include, apart from other requirements as mentioned above:
(i) Treatment of minor and major illness for which the employees and their dependents may call on you.
(ii) Treatment of emergency cases brought to the dispensary or in the departments or in the Bank's premises or outside the Bank's premises and reference to appropriate Hospitals whenever called upon to attend even when such necessity arises outside your normal working hours.
(iii) Administration of all types of injections - The responsibility for administering all types of injections rests with you for any untoward reaction. As a rule, administration of injections by the Pharmacists in his/her absence is to be discouraged. He/she will be required to train the Pharmacists wherever posted in the Bank, to administer routine and simple type of injections if so required when the work is heavy.
(iv) The important dressings and minor surgeries are to be handled by Bank's Medical Consultant. If Bank's Medical Consultant is convinced that the pharmacists have the requisite competence, routine dressings may be handled by them
Application Process :
3 Selection Procedure:
(i) The Reserve Bank of India, Kochi will conduct an interview for selection of One Bank’s Medical Consultant (BMC) on contract basis, with fixed hourly remuneration.
(ii) Selection will be made through interview of eligible candidates. The Bank reserves the right to raise the minimum eligibility standards etc. in order to limit the number of candidates to be called for interview. The decision of the Bank in this regard will be final. The Bank will not entertain any correspondence with the applicants who have not been called for the interview.
(iii) The shortlisted applicant/s after interview will be subjected to medical tests as per prescribed norms before engagement as Bank’s Medical Consultant (BMC).
(iv) Candidates selected for the post will be appointed subject to their being found medically fit and acceptance of Terms and Conditions as per Annex – I and Code of Conduct as per Annex – II.
(v) The selected applicant has to sign an agreement for Contract with the Bank before engagement as Bank’s Medical Consultant on contract basis with fixed hourly remuneration.