Consultant Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon

JOB SUMMARY: Consultant Pediatrics - Orthopedic surgeon is responsible for providing care to patients (inpatient and outpatient) by 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. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Ensures through his/her actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the Riyadh Care Hospital. - 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. - Serves as Pediatric consultant to orthopedic department for in and out patients as assigned or required. - Participate 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 patient’s rights of security, confidentiality and privacy. - Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patient’s 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 Department Quality Plan. - Active participation in Continued Medical Education (CME) 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 & Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations. - Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned with 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. 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. QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION: - Required Saudi Board/Arab Board, American Board, or Canadian Fellowship, or MRCP, or Equivalent - Registration in Saudi Medical Council and/or current license to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia. - Desirable Higher qualifications in his specialty, if any. EXPERIENCE: - Required Minimum of three (3) years experience Post Qualification. Current valid license to practice medicine in the area of his specialty. - 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.

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