Consultant Intensive Care

Job Summary

Consultant is responsible for providing care for his/her patients (inpatient and outpatient including patients admitted in Intensive Care Unit) maintaining a high- level of professional performance in accordance with:

•           Evidenced based medicine.

•           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 intensive care.

Mai r Duties and Responsibilities

•       Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the NMC Hospitals and Clinics.

•       Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges for both in-patients and out-patients.

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

•       Conducts regular ward rounds on his own and/or as a team to formulate a multi disciplinary treatment plan.

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

•      Assessmentandreferralofappropriatepatients 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.

•       Participate in the on-call rota of the department for patient care and admission.

•       Respondstoemergenciestoofferadviceand activelyparticipate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.

•      Observes and upholds the patients rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.

•      Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of

patients medical records.

•       Consultanthas aleadershiproleinthe organizationperformance.

•       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

Qualifications:

A minimum of:

•            EDUCATION

• Required

EitherAmericanBoard, or Canadian Fellowship. or MRCP, or Equivalent

•        Desirable

Higher qualifications in his specialty, if any.

EXPERIENCE:

•        Required

• Minimum five (5) years experience Post
• Current valid license to practice medicine in the area of
• Registration in Saudi Commission of Health Specialties and/or Current license to practice medicine in Saudi

•        Desirable

• Additional experience in a sub-specialty
• Academic

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS :

• Demonstratesleadershipand administrative
• Fluent in spoken and written
• Communication in spoken Arabic is
• Exhibitsprofessionalismandexcellentinterpersonalcommunication
• Isknowledgeable of the Medical by-laws.
• Knowledge of computer