Job Description

The role involves providing high-quality, professional, and ethical clinical services to patients, ensuring effective and efficient care. Key responsibilities include monitoring and managing clinical risks, maintaining compliance with clinical governance and quality management standards, and fostering continuous professional development to uphold excellence in medical practice for both oneself and others.

Responsibilities

• Continuously builds and shares knowledge to deliver expert service within own scope of work, drawing on expertise of others as needed, and shares knowledge.
• Identifies and understands real needs and expectations of clients in a professional manner, and shares with relevant team members.
• Responds to client complaints in a timely and effective manner and provides feedback on progress.
• Keeps clients updated with relevant and accurate information and involves them in decisions that affects them.
• Focuses on consistently delivering a positive client experience.
• Completes tasks in accordance with set procedures and guidelines.
• Takes care to perform all tasks precisely and accurately to minimise errors.
• Identifies and reports non-compliance to relevant stakeholders, constructively.
• Continuously evaluates quality of own work and provides feedback on progress.
• Delivers on work outputs with high level of energy, focussed effort and pace.
• Remains professional and focussed on attaining results despite obstacles and setbacks.
• Builds positive working relationships with immediate colleagues.
• Handles conflict calmly and contributes to find a way forward.
• Demonstrates openness to diverse views and opinions.
• Demonstrates empathy by trying to understand the feelings, needs, concerns and/or emotional state of others.
• Identifies and utilises networks within own work environment.
• Aligns individual behaviour to support and meet team goals.
• Proactively and respectfully shares all relevant viewpoints with others and seeks their input.
• Clarifies and understands own role and responsibilities within the team.
• Recognises, appreciates and respects individual differences.
• Actively participates and builds a positive team spirit.
• Identifies and responds effectively and tactfully in a sensitive or difficult situation.
• Confronts and defuses difficult situations/conflict in a non-judgemental manner.
• Identifies and reacts appropriately to non-verbal cues Recognises and is aware of own biases and emotions and their effects on self and others.
• Effectively manages own feelings, guards against inappropriate displays of emotions.
• Listens attentively, considers and responds appropriately to the feelings and attitudes of others.
• Remains focussed under pressure and perseveres despite setbacks and obstacles to fulfil work outputs
• Performs professions duties as an oncologist.
• Provide care for patients throughout the entire course of cancer treatment, from diagnosis to recovery or death, for in-patients or out-patients.
• Perform physical assessments to detect cancers.
• Explain patient’s cancer development stages.
• Develop treatment plans based on the nature of the cancer.
• Provide/Inform treatment options available to the patient viz curative or palliative therapy.
• Work with physicians and other medical staff and evaluate whether or not the cancer has affected other areas.
• Makes daily rounds related to oncology patients in the medical wards, ICU and CCU as required; performs general or special examinations and other procedures covering the full scope of the field of oncology. Orders laboratory, radiological examinations, determines diagnosis, prescribes medications, advice nursing and dietary care as necessary and applies such preventive measures as required.
• Conducts out-patient medical consultations in the clinics by appointment and follow-up on medical problems as needed.
• After working hours, when on-call, is available for answering medical consultations by physicians in other departments, in the intensive care areas, medical wards, ER, and other in-patient services.
• Will serve as a major contributor to in-service training activities of the new employees.
• Works under the general professional supervision of the Head of the Department.
• Performs the professional duties of an oncologist in adherence to the Delineation of Privileges maintained by the department for individual oncologist. Privileges may differ between individual oncologist, depending on the efficiency and skills of the particular individual.
• Answers in-patient consultations from medical or other in-patient services.
• Participates in the reading of CT Scans, Mammograms, MRI’s and MDT’s.
• Participates in in-service mortality review; chart, Quality Assurance and peer reviews.
• Reviews journals, texts or periodicals in order to update latest techniques, procedures, drugs and therapy.
• Follow the standard policies and procedures as required by HAAD, JCI & ISO.
• Participates in scheduled in-service training programs, CMEs, divisional teaching activities, the regular physicians’ conference or other committees as requested.
• Provides on-call emergency coverage for oncology emergencies.
• Participates in the monthly departmental service Journal activity, and as assigned other committee functions such as the ER, Infection Review, Standardization, ICU, CCU and CPR.
• Strictly observes organization’s medical regulations and policies especially those related to infection control, patient safety, patient assessment and patient care.

Performs other miscellaneous related duties as requested by the Head of the Department

Qualifications

• Qualified and licensed Medical Practitioner
• At least 3-5 years’ post qualification experience at consultant level (independent of country)
• At least 1 year Consultant level experience from a Tier 1 country as specified by the UAE healthcare regulator.
• Basic medical degree and completion of higher education programme (fellowship/diploma) recognised by the relevant UAE healthcare authority.
• Certification and registration in a speciality recognised by relevant UAE healthcare authority.
• Active and valid life support certification (e.g. BLS, ACLS, PALS, ATLS, NRP