Palliative Medicine Consultant - Sharjah, United Arab Emirates - Search PlusHR
Description
Key Responsibilities or Duties:
- To be a member of the hospice medical team, responsible to the consultant
- Providing the medical component of the multidisciplinary team.
- Ensuring that all dimensions of the patient and family care (physical, emotional, social, practical, and spiritual and information) are considered
- To assess and address these needs in accordance with the wishes of the patient and family/carers, in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
To contribute to teaching
Clinical Responsibilities:
- Deliver highquality endoflife medical care/advice to GPs for patients in their usual place of residence.
- Provide medical care to patients admitted to the hospice in a patient unit for symptom control, rehabilitation, respite and terminal care.
- Provide outpatient clinics.
- Liaise with general practitioners and hospital consultants to ensure continuity of care.
- Arrange for consultations with consultants, for example, psychiatry, oncology, pain clinic etc.
- Ensure regular patient reassessment to monitor progress and symptom control ensuring excellence in communication.
- Providing advice to others including GPs.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive healthcare records, electronic and paper.
More jobs from Search PlusHR
-
Psychiatrist
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 1 week ago
-
Interventional Cardiology Doctor
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 2 days ago
-
General Practitioner
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates - 5 days ago
-
Pediatric Hematology-oncology
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 2 days ago
-
Thoracic Surgeon
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 6 hours ago
-
Critical Care Medicine Consultant
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 1 week ago