Palliative Medicine Consultant - Sharjah, United Arab Emirates - Search PlusHR

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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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.

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