Consultant is responsible for providing care for his/her patients (inpatient and outpatient) maintaining a high-level of professional performance in accordance with:

•    Professional medical ethics and JCIA standards.
•   Hospital medical by-laws.
•   Laws of Ministry of Health in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and any other

 applicable regulations according to the departmental quality plan.

Is directly involved in the oral and maxillofacial surgery including infection control, pathology review and diagnosis, pain and anxiety control, hospital dentistry, emergency care and readiness and quality improvement.

Providing effective leadership of the department maintaining an appropriate quality plan using measurable performance improvement standards in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

•   Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the NMC Hospitals and Clinics.
•  Provides patient care within the parameters of their professional competence as reflected in the scope of their clinical privileges for both in-patients and out-patients.
•  Practices within the framework of clinically relevant and scientifically valid standards, guidelines and criteria.
•   Conducts regular ward rounds on his own and/or as a team to formulate a multi-disciplinary treatment plan.
•   Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on his/her patients within the range of the specialty.
•  Assessment and referral of appropriate patients under his/her medical care to other appropriate medical facilities as well as accepting referrals of patients with medical problems in his/her field of specialty.
•   Participate in the on-call rota of the department for patient care and admission.
•  Responds to emergencies to offer advice and actively participate with problems if required, related to his/her specialty.
•  Observes and upholds the patient's rights of security, confidentiality and privacy.
•   Maintains appropriate records of all patients with accurate, timely legible completion of patient's medical records.
•  Consultant has a leadership role in the organization performance.
•   Supervision of duties of assigned junior staff.
•  Provides leadership for performance-improvement functions in the process of measurement, assessment and improvement of both clinical and non-clinical process as part of the Departmental Quality Plan.
•   Active participation in Continued Medical Education (C.M.E.) through educational hospital activities (morning report meetings, grand rounds, clinical tutorials and seminars, journal club, radiology or clinico-pathological conferences). Also, through National and International meetings, conferences and symposia.
•   Assure adequacy of equipment and sterilization for the delivery of related health services.
•   Practices oral and maxillofacial surgery by the sum of diagnostic, remedial and restorative services rendered to patients. Typical duties and responsibilities are:

1.      Diagnostic: of conditions of the hard and soft tissues of the teeth, jaws, supporting structures.
2.    Radiographic, laboratory, clinical evaluation.
3.    Relationship, if any, to systemic conditions.
4.    Treatment planning.
5.      Surgical Treatment: on conditions of the hard and soft tissues of the teeth, jaws, and supporting structures. Nonsurgical management of the other oral, para-oral lesions, e.g. erythema, multiforms, allergies etc.
6.    Minor oral surgery
7.    Major oral surgery: congenital defects

           Neoplasms, benign, malignant, according training.

Trauma – treatment, surgical and non-surgical of open and closed reduction fractures of facial bones.

•   Treat patients with oro-facial diseases and traumatic injuries on inpatient, outpatient and in E.R. as appropriate.
•  Discuss with Anaesthetist in advance regarding high-risk patients and seek expert advice from other consultants within their specialty.
•   Perform diagnostic tests including biopsies as required and interpret the results.
•   Active participation in training program related to his field and organization within the hospital for training of junior medical staff and in-service training for nursing staff and technicians.
•   Continuous update of his knowledge in the medical field as well as continuously upgrading level of skill in his/her field of profession.
•   Participation in committee meetings assigned to him/her (Quality Improvement, Infection Control, etc.).
•   Abides by Department Policies and Procedures, as well as hospital by-laws, Rules and Regulations.
•   Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of the employee's knowledge, skills and abilities.

Reporting t

• Head, Department of Dental Surgery     
• Supervises

Senior Registrar and Registrar Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

• Liaises with:

Consultants of his/her specialty, of other specialties within the department, Consultant of other departments, Nursing staff, other health care professionals, patients and their families 

Skills

Qualifications:

EDUCATION:

•   Required

Either American Board, or Canadian Fellowship, or FDSRCS / FRACDS, or equivalent

•   Desirable

Higher qualifications in his specialty, if any 

EXPERIENCE:

 Required

Minimum five (5) years experience Post Qualification.

Current valid license to practice medicine in the area of specialty

 Desirable

Additional experience in a sub-specialty

Academic affiliation

Registration in Saudi Medical Council and/or Current license to practice medicine in Saudi Arabia

Skills

COMPETENCIES:

•   Demonstrates leadership and administrative skills.
•   Fluent in verbal and written English.
•    Exhibits professionalism and excellent interpersonal communication skills.
•    knowledgeable of the Medical by-laws.
•    Knowledge of computer application.