Specialist - General Pediatrics (NICU Exp) NMC healthcare LLC

Job Description

The role involves delivering professional, ethical, and high-quality clinical care, managing clinical risks, ensuring compliance with governance standards, and maintaining accurate medical records. It also emphasizes continuous professional development and maintaining integrity in providing ethical, responsible clinical services

Responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities for this Role

• Performs the professional duties of a neonatal pediatrician.
• Makes daily rounds related to assigned neonatal patients in the hospital and the healthy newborn nursery.
• Performs general or special examinations and other procedures covering the full scope of the field of pediatrics. Orders laboratory examinations and x-rays, determines diagnosis, prescribes nursing and dietary care necessary, orders or applies such preventive measures as required.
• Provides neonatal consultations to neonates in other department (OP/IP) as and when required.
• Provides in-patient care to the healthy newborn and attends deliveries.
• Serves as a specialist in neonatal pediatrics providing consultative services to the other medical services. Provides technical assistance with neonatal patients.
• Reviews journals, texts or periodicals in order to keep current and latest techniques, procedures, drugs and therapy.
• Participates in schedule in-service training programs and in the regular physicians’ conference.
• Performs other miscellaneous related duties as requested.
• Provide a comprehensive professional and ethical quality clinical services to patients in an effective and efficient manner.
• Monitor and manage clinical risks associated with direct patient care.
• Ensure compliance with clinical governance and quality management standards.
• Maintain accurate medical records.
• Ensure excellence in medical practice is maintained by focusing on continuous professional development of self and others.
• Maintain integrity in professional services by executing clinical services in an ethical and responsible manner

Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems

• Comply with reasonable OSH instructions, policies and safe working procedures
• Use of appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems.
• Be familiar with emergency and evacuation procedures
• Not willfully or recklessly endanger anyone’s health and safety
• Assist with the preparation of risk assessments
• Report OSH Hazards, incidents, Near misses and issues
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycling of waste as much as possible
• Attend all OSH Trainings, awareness programs and mock drills.
• Participates in the OSHMS audits, inspections, ensuring standards are maintained

Specific:

• Ensuring safe manual handling safe practices techniques, during diagnostic and therapeutic clinical procedures.
• Handles all consumables and instruments with utmost care and follows safety, infection control and prevention protocols.
• Ensure to wear and use the appropriate protective equipment as per practice.
• Assist customers in identifying workplace hazards, which affect health.
• Provide expert advice on products, premises and processes, which may affect health and safety at work.
• Assist in identifying areas for health improvement, to improve staff health, staff performance and patient care.
• Ensure accurate, appropriate and timely implementation of relevant legislation, national standards and directives – e.g. FANR, DOH OSHMS.

Additional duties/responsibilities (related to ADHICS) assigned to this position in clear, concise language:

Health Information Literacy and Skills:

• Adhere to information systems policies and procedures as required by Health Care Organization.
• Ensure that documentation in the health record reflects accuracy, integrity and authenticity

Privacy, Confidentiality of Health Information:

• Follow security and privacy policies and procedures to the use of networks, including intranet and Internet.
• Follow confidentiality and security measures to protect electronic health information.
• Maintain data integrity and validity within an information system.
• Report any possible breaches of confidentiality in accordance with organizational policies.

Health Information/Data Technical Security:

• Apply departmental and organizational data and information system security policies

Basic Computer Literacy Skills:

• Use basic word processing, spreadsheet and desktop presentation applications as applicable to your work.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Windows operating environment.
• Demonstrate use of email, addressing, forwarding, attachments, netiquette.

BCP ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities of staff (including all contractors) are:

• Achieving an adequate level of general awareness regarding business continuity Being aware of the contents of their service areas disaster recovery plan and any specific role or responsibilities allocated.
• Participating actively in the business continuity programme when required
• Ensuring information governance standards continue to be applied to data and information during an incident

Prevention and Control of Infection (PCI):

• PCI is everyone’s responsibility. All staff are required to read and implement the NMC PCI Policy and Strategy in an effort to maintain the highest possible standards of cleanliness at all times, thus reducing the risk of infection in patients, staff and visitors.
• The strictest hand hygiene, 5 moments of hand hygiene, bare below the elbows and environmental care, will be expected of all staff, including the post holder, at all times

Certification / MS / DM / MPhil or an equivalent recognised by relevant healthcare authority in UAE