Job Description

Major 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.
• To perform duties in the Dermatology outpatient clinic evaluating patients with skin diseases on a daily basis.
• Conducts regular ward rounds on his own and/or as a team to formulate a multi-disciplinary treatment plan.
• Provides consultation service to inpatients in his area of expertise.
• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty.
• Performs the dermatologic procedures e.g. PUVA therapy, skin biopsy, cryosurgery, excision.
• 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.
• Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.
• Provides on-call emergency coverage for dermatologic emergencies.
• Observes and upholds the patient rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.
• Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patient medical records.
• Consultant has a leadership role in the organization performance.
• Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff whenever applicable.
• 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.
• Participation in review of literature, case reporting and clinical studies/research.
• 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 (e.g. 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 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.
• To carry out any other assignments as directed by Hospital Administration and/or the department head and within the realm of his knowledge, skills and abilities.

Reporting to

• Head of Department

Liaises with:

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

Supervises

• Senior Registrars, Registrars, Residents, Nurses and other paramedical staff assigned.

Qualifications:

A minimum of:

• EDUCATION :

• Required

Either American Board, or Canadian Fellowship, or MRCP, or Equivalent

• Desirable

Higher qualifications in his specialty, if any.

EXPERIENCE:

• Required

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

• Desirable

• Additional experience in a sub-specialty
• Academic affiliation.

Competencies/skills:

• Demonstrates leadership and administrative skills.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Communication in spoken Arabic is desirable.
• Exhibits professionalism and excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Is knowledgeable of the Medical by-laws.
• Knowledge of computer application.