National Medical Care Co. Looking for Consultant Bariatric Surgery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Full Time

Job Description
Job SummaryConsultant Bariatric surgeon is responsible for providing care for his/her patients (inpatient and outpatient) maintaining a high-level of professional performance in accordance with:Professional medical ethics and CBAHI / 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 general surgery.Major Duties and ResponsibilitiesEnsures 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 (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.Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of the employees knowledge, skills and abilities.Reporting toHead, Department of SurgerySupervisesSenior Registrars, Registrars, Residents, Nurses and other paramedical staff assigned to him.
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