General Practitioner

Role Overview

General Practitioner at NMC Healthcare. The role delivers professional, ethical, and high-quality clinical services to patients efficiently.

Role Purpose

To provide expert clinical care while maintaining clinical governance, quality standards, and accurate medical records, supported by continuous professional development and ethical practice.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Delivery & Patient Care

• Deliver professional, ethical, and high-quality clinical services to patients efficiently.
• Identify and understand the needs and expectations of clients in a professional manner and share with relevant team members.
• Keep clients up to date with relevant and accurate information and involve them in decisions that affect them.
• Focus on consistently delivering a positive client experience.
• Respond to client complaints in a timely and effective manner and provide feedback on progress.
• Exercise effective interpersonal skills in dealing with department staff, associates and management.
• Demonstrate the ability to listen to others in promoting effective communication.

Clinical Governance & Compliance

• Monitor and manage clinical risks.
• Ensure compliance with clinical governance and quality standards.
• Maintain accurate medical records.
• Strictly adhere to organisational regulations and policies, especially those related to infection control, patient safety, OSH, DOH, JCI and ISO.
• Identify and report non-compliance to relevant stakeholders constructively.
• Maintain confidentiality as per the agreement signed.

Quality Assurance & Professional Development

• Support continuous quality improvement and participate and contribute to all quality assurance activities of the services.
• Monitor clinical and other established indicators to ensure ongoing quality assurance.
• Continuously evaluate quality of own work and provide feedback on progress.
• Participate and contribute in scheduled in-service training programs including ACLS, BLS, CNEs and CMEs, in-house activities, conferences or other programs as requested.
• Uphold good medical practice through continuous professional development for oneself and others.
• Continuously build and share knowledge to deliver expert service within own scope of work, drawing on expertise of others as needed.

Operations & Team Collaboration

• Work in all shifts as scheduled by the Head of the department.
• Complete tasks in accordance with set procedures and guidelines.
• Take care to perform all tasks precisely and accurately to minimise errors.
• Deliver on work outputs with high level of energy, focused effort and pace.
• Align individual behaviour to support and meet team goals.
• Proactively and respectfully share all relevant viewpoints with others and seek their input.
• Clarify and understand own role and responsibilities within the team.
• Recognise, appreciate, and respect individual differences.
• Actively participate and build a positive team spirit.
• Develop an understanding of policies and procedures of the hospital and demonstrate respect for them.
• Carry out other duties when requested by the Head of the department.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 2–3 years' experience in the relevant specialised department in a private hospital setting.
• Work experience from a Tier 1 country as specified by the UAE healthcare regulator.
• Basic medical degree recognised by the relevant UAE healthcare authority.
• Diploma or training in a speciality recognised by the relevant UAE healthcare authority.

Skills & Competencies

• Active and valid life support certification (e.g. BLS, ACLS, PALS, ATLS, NRP).