Consultant Anesthetists Critical Care

Job description / Role

HMC has been the principal public healthcare provider in the State of Qatar for over three decades, and is dedicated to delivering the safest, most effective and most compassionate care to each and every one of our patients.

HMC manages eight hospitals, incorporating five specialist hospitals and three community hospitals. HMC also manages the National Ambulance Service as well as home healthcare, both accredited by Joint Commission International. While HMC continues to upgrade its facilities and services, it has also embarked on an ambitious expansion program, targeting the areas of need in our community.

We are leading the development of the region's first academic health system and we are committed to building a legacy of healthcare expertise in Qatar. We collaborate with partners who are key experts in Qatar and beyond, including Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Partners Healthcare, Boston.

We are also the first hospital system in the Middle East to achieve institutional accreditation from the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education - International (ACGME-I), which demonstrates excellence in the way medical graduates are trained through residency, internship and fellowship programs

We are looking to appoint a number of full time Consultant & Senior Consultant Anesthetists to join our JCI accredited General Hospital on a permanent basis.

Hamad General Hospital is a modern, 603-bed facility providing highly specialized and complex care to the people of Qatar.

It offers a wide range of medical care and clinical services, including trauma, emergency medicine, pediatrics, critical care, specialized and sub-specialized surgery, specialized medicine, laboratory medicine, diagnostic imaging and adult rehabilitation services.

The hospital, which opened in 1982, provides expert inpatient care, a large Outpatient Department providing more than 65 specialty clinics, a highly developed Emergency Department, five intensive care units, eight operating theaters and a large pharmacy. Modern diagnostic facilities including laboratory, medicine, pathology and radiology facilities support all therapeutic services.

We are a committed team of multidisciplinary professionals who, as a department, have received awards from COS and have Joint Commission International Accreditation.

The Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) is also run by the Anesthetics Department and takes care of all serious surgical cases before, during and after an operation. We also have a pain management team which runs clinics and a separate department for chronic pain cases.

The most frequent diagnostic services provided by our department include:
- Evaluation of surgical patients
- Peri and post operative care for surgical patients
- Post operative care for serious surgical cases
- Pain treatment for acute pain cases
- Pain management clinics for chronic pain patients.

Requirements

We would like to hear from Consultant Anesthetists, particularly those who have an interest in the following areas:
- Ambulatory Care
- Critical Care
- Neurosurgical
- Neurological
- Obstetric
- Orthopedic
- Pediatric
- Trauma

Our consultant s are responsible for organizing, monitoring, and maintaining the services provided in order to achieve the highest possible level of patient care with optimum utilization of the available resources.

You will develop work plans for specialists and other members of the team and performs all relevant interventions related to your field of specialization. You will also perform health education through orientation and scientific presentations.

You will work closely with a wide range of departments including our National Center for Cancer Care & Research,

Ideally you will have experience of Blocks, Regional and General anesthesia procedures.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of motivated and dedicated professionals who strive to ensure that patient welfare remains the top priority.

We expect our Consultant Anesthetists to have:
- Primary medical degree from a recognized medical school
- UK/US/European Board certification
- Between six months and two years clinical experience after Residency (depending upon training programme)
- Experience of undergraduate/postgraduate teaching
- Excellent verbal and written English is essential
- A second language is preferred

In addition we ask that Senior Consultants have held a Consultant post for a minimum of six consecutive years and have teaching, research and administrative experience

Our successful participation in the health sector is largely dependent on the skills, competencies, and enthusiasm of our employees. We commit to developing our employees through training, educating and career advancement opportunities so they are enabled to support our vision of the future.

You will be constantly learning. Your ideas will be welcomed in an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork. Your individuality will be recognized. You will be encouraged to be yourself.

Why Join Us?

With a diverse and multi-national workforce, HMC provides its employees with an exciting and rewarding career path.

Offering a comprehensive benefits program that includes a tax-free salary, generous paid vacation leave, professional development opportunities and housing and transport allowances, HMC is committed to recruiting and retaining high caliber employees.

The benefits outlined here are those that apply to Consultants:
- Tax-free salary
- Subsidized healthcare for you and your family
- End of service award
- Round-trip annual leave Business Class ticket per year to the country you were recruited from
- Housing allowance
- Furniture allowance
- Transport allowance
- 35–50 paid vacation days per year plus 5 days Eid holidays (right after the end of Ramadan month) and five more days Eid holidays (approximately nine weeks after the Ramadan Eid holidays)
- Emergency family leave
- Educational support for children
- Relocation support
- Country orientation
- Language skills support

Here, you will have the opportunity to team with the best and the brightest professionals in healthcare and to provide world class patient care service for the population.

We invite you to learn more about us and the exciting environment that is HMC.

About the Company

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is the principal public healthcare provider for the State of Qatar. HMC is committed to actively contributing to and enabling the sustainable development of Qatar and its people in alignment with the Qatar National Vision (QNV) 2030.

HMC believes in excellence in healthcare, education and research with each supporting the other to provide the safest, most effective and compassionate care to each and every one of our patients.

To meet the healthcare challenges of Qatars growing population, Hamad has transformed into a thriving and integrated Academic Health System which will make significant, positive impacts upon patient care, medical education and medical research.

In addition to three general hospitals (Al Khor Hospital, Al Wakra Hospital and The Cuban Hospital) HMC also manages five specialist hospitals (Hamad General Hospital, Rumailah Hospital, Womens Hospital, the National Center for Cancer Care and Research and Heart Hospital) which look after patients with the most prevalent conditions, including cancer, heart conditions, rehabilitation, and providing specialist treatment for women and children.