Consultant Psychiatry – Naufar Hospital
Job Description
Assess patient needs, strengths, weaknesses, and behaviors through interviews, direct observation, diagnostic testing and pertinent collateral information to initiate a comprehensive management plan that best meets patients’ needs.
Responsibilities
- The Consultant Psychiatry is a senior doctor who has oversight responsibility for his team of junior doctors and manages other team members.
- The Consultant Psychiatry should be able to take a comprehensive view of the care pathway.
- The Consultant Psychiatry accepts ultimate responsibility for the care of all patients admitted under his supervision.
- The Consultant Psychiatry is capable of independently providing high quality patient care (diagnose, treat, manage and admit patients).
- Ability to relate well to others and use interpersonal skills to achieve desired objectives, recognizing the need to represent both the clinical work and the team.
- The Consultant Psychiatry actively contributes to the teaching and training of students and junior doctors, and to the development of his specialty through leadership, academe and research.
- Research is a key and integral component to the Naufar’s Strategic aim to become an Academic Health System.
- The post holder must be able to contribute on delivering an integrated strategic vision and planning for Clinical, Research, Education and training which improves the quality of patient care.
- The post holder will lead in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of persons with substance use disorders or co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders.
