Consultant Psychiatry

JOB PURPOSE:

• 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.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Clinical Duties

• The consultant is responsible for organizing, monitoring, and maintaining the clinical services provided within the department in order to achieve the highest possible level of patient care with optimum utilization of the available resources.
• 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.
• Provide MDT leadership and psychiatric services in accordance with Naufar clinical needs.
• Work closely with Naufar multidisciplinary teams to provide a high standard of care, which encompasses clinical assessment, treatment and management of patients across a wide range of clinical areas including mental health conditions while complying with internationally recognized standards.
• Perform a comprehensive risk assessment and devise management strategies to effectively mitigate and manage risk.
• Management of complex information from many sources to formulate management of medication and therapeutic approaches for patients.
• Prescribe medications for treatment of mental, emotional or behavioral disorders and substance use disorders in alignment with local and recognized international prescribing guidelines.
• Writes, completes and approves medical records and reports for patients.
• Provide supervision to other staff and provide specialist interventions for new or emerging drugs of misuse to better deal with these difficult cases.
• Creation and maintenance of Services Operational Manual in compliance with the Naufar model of care.
• Participate in the planning and implementation of department development plans and the different work force training programs for the medical, technical and nursing staff.
• Performs all relevant interventions related to his/her field of specialization.
• Participates in scheduling of on-call duties and provides on-call services.
• Performs other duties as assigned/directed by the chairperson/head of the department and approved by the Medical Director/CMO.
• The specific details about roles and responsibilities related to each specialty can be found in their job plan, which is maintained by the Department.

Research, Education, Policies, Systems, Processes and Procedures.

• Fulfil continuing professional development requirements and participate in relevant learning opportunities like conferences or seminars to enhance personal expertise and apply that expertise to providing continuous quality improvement of patient care at Naufar.
• Assist in educating the broader Naufar staff group to gain a better understanding of addiction and mental health in populations and the role staff play in the providing state of the art clinical care.
• Assist in conducting clinical research, adding to the evidence base of practice in addictions and related areas
• Teach and undertake an agreed program of continuing professional development that includes attending conferences or seminars to increase personal and collective understanding of Psychiatric patients.
• Assist in the teaching of other multidisciplinary team members, clinical and non-clinical staff, and others to promote knowledge about the assessment and care of patients with substance use or co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for the continuous improvement of departmental systems, processes and practices in comparison to recognized standards to improve efficiency.
• Adheres to policies, guidelines, plans and programs of Naufar Center.
• Identify and propose research questions and assist in conducting clinical research to add to the evidence base of addiction treatment and related areas.
• Participates in the planning and follow up of the medical education and research
• activities.

Professional/Academic Qualifications:

Minimum of one from the below list is an essential requirement;

• Arab Board of Health Specializations
• USA - The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
• Canada - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (RCPS-C)
• UK - GMC/CCST Specialist Register
• Germany - Fachartz Specialist Certificate
• Sweden - Swedish Board
• Australia and New Zealand Fellowship from the Royal Australia and New Zealand Colleges
• Specialist registration from other countries will be considered after an equivalence review

Certifications/Licensure:

• Valid Primary license from the country of origin. Must satisfy revalidation criteria.
• Eligible for Psychiatry license from the Licensing authority in the State of Oatar to practice Healthcare Profession.
• Up-to date CPD in relevant areas.

Essential Experience:

• Consultants with western qualifications and completed a subspecialty fellowship should have held a Consultant post for at least 1 year. While those with western qualifications but did not complete a subspecialty fellowship, a minimum period of 2 years, as an Associate Consultant experience is required.
• Physicians with non-western qualifications but have completed a fellowship program, should currently be in a Consultant post and have JO years of clinical experience post specialty certification, or should be currently in an Associate Consultant post for a minimum of 2 years.
• He/she must be practicing within the same specialty.
• Other specialist experience e.g. commissioning, accreditation, practice guideline development.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Expert knowledge of Psychiatry including clinical expertise applied in legal contexts, assessment and treatment of seriously mentally ill persons and persons with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
• Expert knowledge of psychiatry and mental health.
• Expert knowledge of pharmacological and psychotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of mental, emotional or behavioral disorders in Psychiatric populations.
• Ability to lead the MDT in the delivery of clinical care in line the Naufar Model of Care.
• Comprehensive knowledge of evidence based psychosocial interventions for treatment of substance use disorder.
• Possess expertise in understanding internationally accepted models of addiction, and predisposition, causation, epidemiology, treatment and models of recovery from substance use disorders.
• Demonstrable psychotherapeutic skills: individual, group,
• family.
• Ability to act on own initiative within the framework of Naufar.