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.
• Conducts regular ward rounds on his own and/or as a team to formulate a multi- disciplinary treatment plan including pre-operative and post operative care.
• 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 and admission.
• Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate 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.
• 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 Continuing 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 (e.g. Quality Improvement, Infection Control, etc.).
• Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.
• Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of the employee’s knowledge, skills and abilities.
• 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.

Reporting to

• Head, Department of Orthopedic

Supervises

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

Qualifications:

A minimum of:

EDUCATION:

Required:

• Saudi Board, or American Board, or Canadian Fellowship, or FRCS, or Equivalent

Desirable:

• Higher qualifications in his specialty, if any.

EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Up to five (5) years after post qualification.
• Current valid license to practice medicine in the area of his specialty.
• Registration in Saudi Medical Council and/or Current license to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia.

Desirable:

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

Competencies:

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