Surgeon Specialist

Main Responsibilities and Tasks:
• Conduct daily ward rounds for support to MDs, observation and review of patients.
• Run specialist clinics on a regular basis.
• Regularly monitor patients’ progress and provide documentation.
• Attend to emergency cases when necessary and be on 24 hrs call.
• Carry out routine and emergency surgical operations and other procedures.
• Ensure complete daily documentation of patient case notes/files
• Ensure complete discharge, referral and feedback procedures for patients
• Counsel patients and relatives on health management.
• Maintain regular contacts with heads of other departments to ensure harmonization of patients’ management.
• Review and develop appropriate policies and procedures for patients’ health care to formulate best practice guidelines based on EPHS.
• Ensure timely availability of required support services in the process of treating patients, particularly when referred to other specialists.
• Liaise with other consultants on handling specialized cases in provision of patients’ health care.
• Prepare timely and accurate medical reports, audits and mortality reviews.
• Ensure medical records activities are effectively implemented
• Teach other health care providers/MDs about specific techniques of medicine services.
• Ensure effective management of surgical wards and Surgical OPD clinic.
• Observe and comply with environmental health, occupational safety and Infection Prevention measures and regulations.
• Availability in the night duties as scheduled.
• Observe any situation for preventing infections.
• Any other duties assigned by Clinical Director