Consultant – Orthopaedics Surgery

About this opportunity

The role involves providing high-quality, professional, and ethical clinical services to patients, ensuring effective and efficient care. Key responsibilities include monitoring and managing clinical risks, maintaining compliance with clinical governance and quality management standards, and fostering continuous professional development to uphold excellence in medical practice for both oneself and others

Responsibilities

• Continuously builds and shares knowledge to deliver expert service within own scope of work, drawing on expertise of others as needed, and shares knowledge.

• Identifies and understands real needs and expectations of clients in a professional manner, and shares with relevant team members.

• Responds to client complaints in a timely and effective manner and provides feedback on progress.

• Keeps clients updated with relevant and accurate information and involves them in decisions that affects them.

• Focuses on consistently delivering a positive client experience.

• Completes tasks in accordance with set procedures and guidelines.

• Takes care to perform all tasks precisely and accurately to minimise errors.

• Identifies and reports non-compliance to relevant stakeholders, constructively.

• Continuously evaluates quality of own work and provides feedback on progress.

• Delivers on work outputs with high level of energy, focussed effort and pace.

• Remains professional and focussed on attaining results despite obstacles and setbacks.

• Builds positive working relationships with immediate colleagues.

• Handles conflict calmly and contributes to find a way forward.

• Demonstrates openness to diverse views and opinions.

• Demonstrates empathy by trying to understand the feelings, needs, concerns and/or emotional state of others.

• Identifies and utilises networks within own work environment.

• Aligns individual behaviour to support and meet team goals.

• Proactively and respectfully shares all relevant viewpoints with others and seeks their input.

• Clarifies and understands own role and responsibilities within the team.

• Recognises, appreciates and respects individual differences.

• Actively participates and builds a positive team spirit.

• Identifies and responds effectively and tactfully in a sensitive or difficult situation.

• Confronts and defuses difficult situations/conflict in a non-judgemental manner.

• Identifies and reacts appropriately to non-verbal cues Recognises and is aware of own biases and emotions and their effects on self and others.

• Effectively manages own feelings, guards against inappropriate displays of emotions.

• Listens attentively, considers and responds appropriately to the feelings and attitudes of others.

• Remains focussed under pressure and perseveres despite setbacks and obstacles to fulfil work outputs.

• Provides comprehensive and diligent orthopedic care to all assigned patients, including pre- and post-operative

• care and such orthopedic procedures as are within incumbent’s competence.

• Performs professional duties at OPD at which out-patient orthopedic care is to be rendered to patients.

• Provides consultation services to physicians and other surgeons and specialists, on in-or out-patient cases if and when required.

• Assumes after hours responsibility for the care of admitted orthopedic cases and makes daily rounds for those hospitalized.

• Adheres to the Bylaws and Rules and Regulations of the medical department and assures that work performed is in keeping with the established standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of hospitals.

• Consults with anesthetist on the choice of anesthesia to be used.

• Maintains complete and accurate records of all assigned cases Keeps informed as to current developments in the field of orthopedic.

• Determines which surgical and related services procedures are proper to undertake and when new techniques will be utilized. Determines requirements and initiates action to assure availability of special equipment and supplies.

• Utilizes and monitors to assure the use supporting services (Nursing, Operations Support, Pathology, Radiology) in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner

Qualifications

• Qualified and licensed Medical Practitioner

• At least 3-5 years’ post qualification experience at consultant level (independent of country)

• At least 1 year Consultant level experience from a Tier 1 country as specified by the UAE healthcare regulator.

• Basic medical degree and completion of higher education programme (fellowship/diploma) recognised by the relevant UAE healthcare authority.

• Certification and registration in a speciality recognised by relevant UAE healthcare authority.

Active and valid life support certification (e.g. BLS, ACLS, PALS, ATLS, NRP

Source: NMC Healthcare — United Arab Emirates