Specialist - Endocrinology

Role Overview

Specialist - Endocrinology at NMC Healthcare. This is a specialist-level clinical position delivering endocrinology services to patients, including outpatient clinic care, emergency on-call coverage, and consultation services across the organization.

Role Purpose

Deliver professional, ethical, and high-quality clinical endocrinology services while managing clinical risks, ensuring governance compliance, maintaining accurate medical records, and supporting continuous professional development and organizational quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Care & Patient Management

• Provide comprehensive professional and ethical quality clinical services to patients in an effective and efficient manner.
• Evaluate patients with hormonal diseases in the Endocrinology Clinic.
• Work with patients throughout the entire process starting from consultation to treatment plan.
• Perform endocrine procedures including dynamic hormonal testing in appropriate patients.
• Order diagnostic laboratory studies and X-ray examinations, determining the diagnosis and prescribing applicable therapy.
• Provide consultation and referral services to inpatient services within area of expertise.

Clinical Risk & Governance

• Monitor and manage clinical risks associated with direct patient care.
• Ensure compliance with clinical governance and quality management standards.
• Maintain accurate medical records.
• Strictly observe the organization's medical regulations and policies, especially those related to infection control, patient safety, patient assessment and patient care.
• Perform professional duties of an endocrinologist in accordance with the delineation of privileges as recommended and approved by the Credentials Committee.

Emergency & On-Call Services

• Provide after-hours on-call emergency coverage for endocrinology emergencies.

Teaching & Supervision

• Provide supervision and education to staff nurses, patients and technicians.
• Ensure excellence in medical practice by focusing on continuous professional development of self and others.
• Participate in and contribute to in-service activities such as lectures, conferences and rounds.
• Maintain integrity in professional services by executing clinical services in an ethical and responsible manner.

Quality Assurance & Organizational Participation

• Participate in and contribute to all quality assurance activities of the service, including monthly mortality and morbidity conference, peer review, audit and chart review.
• Participate in monthly staff meetings.
• Perform other miscellaneous related duties as required by the Head of Department.

Occupational Safety & Health

• Comply with reasonable occupational safety and health instructions, policies and safe working procedures.
• Use appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems.
• Be familiar with emergency and evacuation procedures.
• Not willfully or recklessly endanger anyone's health and safety.
• Assist with the preparation of risk assessments.
• Report occupational safety and health hazards, incidents, near misses and issues.
• Reduce, reuse and recycle waste as much as possible.
• Attend all occupational safety and health trainings, awareness programs and mock drills.
• Participate in occupational safety and health management systems audits and inspections, ensuring standards are maintained.

Prevention & Control of Infection

• Read and implement the NMC Prevention and Control of Infection Policy and Strategy in an effort to maintain the highest possible standards of cleanliness at all times, reducing the risk of infection in patients, staff and visitors.
• Maintain the strictest hand hygiene, including the 5 moments of hand hygiene, bare below the elbows and environmental care at all times.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 3 to 5 years' post-qualification experience at Specialist level, independent of country.
• At least 1 year Specialist level experience from a Tier 1 country as specified by the UAE healthcare regulator.
• Basic medical degree and completion of a specialty qualification or education programme (fellowship or diploma) recognized by the relevant UAE healthcare authority.
• Certification and registration in a specialty recognized by relevant UAE healthcare authority.
• Active and valid life support certification, such as BLS, ACLS, PALS, ATLS, or NRP.
• Eligibility for relevant healthcare authority registration including Membership from Royal College, Arab Board Certification, MS, DM, MPhil or an equivalent recognized by relevant healthcare authority in UAE.

Additional Information

• Prevention and Control of Infection is everyone's responsibility. All staff are required to read and implement the NMC Prevention and Control of Infection Policy and Strategy to maintain the highest possible standards of cleanliness.