Attending Consultant (Microbiology) - Lab Medicine

Objective

 Objective    
To provide & coordinate lab services & to ensure highest standards of patient care.

Principal Accountabilities :

Principal  Accountabilities

(A)    Strategic

•    Implementation of hospital's /medical services vision & philosophy.
•    Awareness of patients rights & safety issues, relationship building.
•    Complete charge of investigations pertaining to his speciality. 
•    Strategic inputs in her/his vertical & should forward recommendation for continuous improvement in the vertical.

(B)    Operational

•    To provide the best possible supervision of the lab processes and protocols.
•    To coordinate all the references with other specialists if desired.
•    To ensure all the investigations are sent the reports are interpreted the concerned consultants are informed. 
•    To be responsible for the safe collection, storage and analysis of all relevant specimens.
•    To do the reporting for all the tests coming under the specialty in liaison with the consultant.
•    Should facilitate all audits in the concerned areas & answer all their queries.
•    Inventory management, In addition to that to ensure systems to avoid wastages/pilferages/thefts etc.
•    To ensure SOP’s of the lab Services be implemented.
•    To help the Functional & administrative heads in day to day operations.
•    To adhere to duty roster & to take prior permission of Functional & administrative heads in case of any mutual arrangements/ leaves etc.
•    To participate in the in service education programmes. 
•    To train staff in the concerned areas to ensure the service excellence programme.
•    To ensure adequate record keeping in the concerned areas.
•    To participate in periodic staff reviews to assess effectiveness of the particular areas.
•    Ensure proper functioning of all the equipment and instruments and coordinates with engineering/biomedical /appropriate department for malfunctioning/repair/replacement /loss/theft/indents.
•    Ensure maintenance and disposal of records and documents as per the quality standards
•    Initiate inputs to functional & administrative heads to different support clinical committees as and when required.
•    To ensure all the records are maintained .
•    To ensure all the Medico Legal cases are adequately handled.
•    To ensure all the patients of notifiable diseases are addressed to the competent authorities.
•    Liasioning with other deptts for achieving service excellence.

Performance Parameters

•    Quality and timeliness of the service delivery of the patients.
•    To participate in quality audits in the concerned areas & to ensure preventive & corrective actions.
•    To ensure error free Medical care in all allocated areas.
•    To participate in the on going education.
•    To ensure equipments are in the working condition.
•    To train all the subordinate staff for best practices to ensure implementation of service excellence programme.

Education

Essential: A recognized postgraduate degree from Medical Council of India. Must be registered with State/Medical Council of India.

Experience

A Minimum of 0- 6 years of relevant experience in the concerned specialty in a Super/Multi Specialty hospital is desirable.

Knowledge

•    Quick Thinking, Fast Moving, and have wide spectrum of knowledge.
•    Strong communication skills.
•    Conceptual and Analytical skills.
•    Computer literacy and hands on PC.