Consultant Emergeny Medicine

Job Summary

Consultant is responsible for providing care for his/her patients maintaining a high-level of professional performance in accordance with:

• Professional medical ethics and JCIA standards.
• Hospital medical by-laws.
• Laws of Ministry of Health in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and any other applicable regulations according to the departmental quality plan.

Providing effective leadership of the department maintaining an appropriate quality plan using measurable performance improvement standards in the field of medical emergency.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures through his/her actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the Riyadh Care Hospital.

• Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges.

• Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria.

• Participates in the development and maintenance of medical contingency disaster plans.

• Supervises the triage system performed by the Emergency Room Nurse.

• Supervises the performance of the E.R. physicians in the unit.

• Ensures the delivery of the medical care in the unit that meets the JCIA and hospital standards.

• Organizes and supervises the duty rota of the E.R. physicians in the unit.

• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty.

• Assessment and referral of appropriate patients under his/her medical care to other appropriate medical facilities as well as accepting referrals of patients with medical problems in his/her field of specialty.

• Participates in the on-call Rota of the department for patient care.

• Observes and upholds the patient's rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.

• Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.

• Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patient's medical records.

• Consultant has a leadership role in the organization performance.

• Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff.

• Provides leadership for performance-improvement functions in the process of measurement, assessment and improvement of both clinical and non-clinical process as part of the Departmental Quality Plan.

• Active participation in Continued Medical Education (C.M.E.) through educational hospital activities (morning report meetings, grand rounds, clinical tutorials and seminars, journal club, radiology or clinico-pathological conferences). Also, through National and International meetings, conferences and symposia.

• Active participation in training program related to his field and organization within the hospital for training of junior medical staff and in-service training for nursing staff and technicians.

• Continuous update of his knowledge in the medical field as well as continuously upgrading level of skill in his/her field of profession.

• Participation in committee meetings assigned to him/her (Quality Improvement, Infection Control, etc.).

• Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.

• Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mention in patient & family education policy and procedure (NSP-GEN-014) including documentation in patient medical record.

• They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.

• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.

• Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients’ developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.

• Allots time necessary to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation.

• Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of his/her knowledge, skills and abilities.

Reporting to

·         Head of Department of Emergency Medical Services.

Supervises

        ·        All ER Physicians including all department staff.

• Management of ER patients whenever he is on-call.

Liaises with:

• Consultants of his/her specialty, of other specialties within the department, Consultant of other departments, Quality Department, Nursing staff, other health care professionals, patients and their families.

Qualifications:

A minimum of:

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  • Demonstrates leadership and administrative skills.
  • Fluent in spoken and written English.
  • Communication in spoken Arabic is desirable.
  • Exhibits professionalism and excellent interpersonal communication skills.
  • Has high standards of medical ethics, sense of responsibility as judged by his supervisors and colleagues.
  • Is knowledgeable of the Medical by-laws.
  • Knowledgeable in computer applications.