Consultant Orthopedic Surgery

<div><h3>Job Summary</h3><p>Consultant is responsible for providing care for his/her patients (inpatient and outpatient) maintaining a high-level of professional performance in accordance with:</p><ul><li>Professional medical ethics and CBAHI / JCIA standards.</li><li>Hospital medical by-laws.</li><li>Laws of Ministry of Health in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and any other applicable regulations according to the departmental quality plan.</li></ul><p>Providing effective leadership of the department maintaining an appropriate quality plan using measurable performance improvement standards in the field of general surgery.</p><h3>Major Duties and Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria.</li><li>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.</li><li>Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty.</li><li>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.</li><li>Participates in the on-call rota of the department for patient care and admission.</li><li>Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.</li><li>Observes and upholds the patients’ rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.</li><li>Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patients medical records.</li><li>Consultant has a leadership role in the organization performance.</li><li>Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Continuous update of his knowledge in the medical field as well as continuously upgrading level of skill in his/her field of profession.</li><li>Participation in committee meetings assigned to him/her (e.g. Quality Improvement, Infection Control, etc.).</li><li>Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.</li><li>Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of the employee's knowledge, skills and abilities.</li><li>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.</li><li>They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.</li><li>Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.</li><li>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.</li><li>Allots time necessary to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation.</li></ul><h3>Reporting to</h3><ul><li>Head, Department of Orthopedic</li></ul><h3>Supervises</h3><ul><li>Senior Registrars, Registrars, Residents, Nurses and other paramedical staff assigned to him.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p>A minimum of:</p><h3>Education</h3><ul><li><b>Required:</b><ul><li>Saudi Board, or American Board, or Canadian Fellowship, or FRCS, or Equivalent</li></ul></li><li><b>Desirable:</b><ul><li>Higher qualifications in his specialty, if any.</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Experience</h3><ul><li><b>Required:</b><ul><li>Up to five (5) years after post qualification.</li><li>Current valid license to practice medicine in the area of his specialty.</li><li>Registration