Podiatrist (Al Dhafra Hospitals)

Role Overview

Podiatrist at Al Dhafra Hospitals, SEHA, providing safe, effective, evidence-based and comprehensive podiatry services.

Role Purpose

To deliver high-quality podiatry services across outpatient clinics, inpatient treatments, and home care settings while managing the podiatry department, supervising staff, and ensuring compliance with health, safety and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Service Delivery

• Undertake clinic sessions of podiatry services including minor surgery, diabetic wound management and assessment.
• Conduct biomechanical assessments and production of orthotic devices and patient treatments including children's foot health.
• Assess patients referred to podiatry and determine their needs.
• Run daily clinical sessions divided between outpatient clinics, inpatient treatments, and home care service.
• Provide service to local community clinics as required.
• Undertake treatment using current and up-to-date techniques to facilitate maximum mobility in the patient's life.
• Undertake diagnostic, screening, monitoring, treatment and educative podiatry service.
• Perform minor surgery procedures as requested.

Pharmaceutical & Treatment Management

• Use and dispense medication for topical use as per podiatry pharmaceutical list agreed by podiatry task force.
• Use and prescribe non-pharmaceutical products to be collected from central stores.

Department & Staff Management

• Supervise junior staff and ensure their abidance to rules and policies as applied and implemented in the section/department/facility.
• Be responsible for all podiatry staff within the department which includes podiatrists, senior assistants, assistant technicians and administrative staff.
• Maintain sufficient inventory of material supplies and equipment for performance of duties.
• Report shortage of materials to supervisor at earliest convenience, ordering and approving replenishments when necessary.

Operations & Administration

• Organize daily clinical session and administrative process for all outpatient clinics, inpatient treatments, and home care service.
• Manage all administrative work related to the daily operation of the podiatry department.
• Monitor the effective and efficient daily running of the department, including supplies control and maintenance of equipment.
• Record daily statistics regarding hours worked and consultations performed, and forward monthly to rehabilitation department head.
• Record and document all patient contacts as required by medical record documentation policy, using the computer as appropriate.

Strategy & Service Development

• Develop future strategies for the service for the benefit of hospital patients and local community clinics and home health care.
• Determine future policy and all administrative work related to continuing expansion of the podiatry service.
• Develop and review policy and procedure guidelines for podiatry service.

Community & Stakeholder Engagement

• Liaise and provide clinical service to community clinics and with community health department as and when necessary with particular regard to prevention service as it develops.
• Help actively promote foot health awareness and education to the medical, paramedical and nursing professions and students.

Quality & Safety

• Adhere to health and safety policy of the hospital to ensure a safe working environment at all times.
• Report all accidents and incidents to the appropriate department using appropriate documentation.
• Promote and maintain quality in all services and ensure continuous quality improvement measures are in place.
• Conduct method evaluation and development as per standard policies and procedures.
• Comply with all safety, health and quality control programs and procedures as applicable.
• Comply with applicable precautions for environmental safety and infection control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross infection.
• Maintain the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded.
• Practice within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures.
• Ensure that standard operation procedures and quality assurance tests are maintained within all sections.
• Be responsible for documenting all interventions in appropriate format.
• Comply with and support clinical audit processes within the service and report on these as agreed.

Communication & Interpersonal

• Communicate in a professional and courteous manner with patients, family and other medical personnel as necessary to obtain information for records, explain procedures, clarify orders and communicate status.
• Interact courteously with doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers when answering questions or providing other information.

Education & Professional Development

• Participate in training and education sessions for department staff, doctors and nurses in the safe and secure handling of drugs and equipment, prescribing (whenever applicable), administration, treatment and management including teaching, induction, peer review, case studies, and clinical presentations.
• Actively participate in teaching programs within the department or to other departments, notably nursing, health and diabetes educators, medical and allied health, and all other departments which have relationship to podiatry services.
• Participate in department programs and committees, various hospital committees, and staff meetings.
• Participate in the orientation and training of new employees.
• Ensure appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures.
• Maintain professional knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or online education units.
• Complete and maintain all regulatory requirements including licensure, certification and other mandatory training within established time frames.
• Take every reasonable opportunity to maintain, improve and update knowledge and skills.

Qualifications & Experience

• Not less than 2 years clinical experience as a Podiatrist.
• UAE Nationals upon completion of internship.

Additional Information

• The responsibilities stated above must not be considered to be exclusive of any duties which are not specifically stated. This employee will be expected to accept any other duties which are consistent with qualifications, experience and ability when requested by their superior.