Consultant - Cardiology

Objective

To provide & coordinate medical services, to ensure highest standards of patient care.

Principal Accountabilities :

(A)    Strategic

•    Implementation of hospital's /medical services vision & philosophy.
•    Infection control, Health care waste management, awareness of patients rights & safety issues, relationship building.
•    Complete charge of the patient admitted under direct care.
•    Strategic inputs in her/his department & forward recommendation for continuous improvement in the services or development of new modalities.

(B)    Operational

•    To provide the best possible prompt medical care to all patients under his / her care.
•    To counsel all the discharged patients for further follow ups.
•    To be on call for all emergencies that may arise in that specialty.
•    Collective rounds with subordinates & to ensure all preventive & corrective measures to maintain the highest standards of patient care & service delivery.
•    Should facilitate all audits in the concerned areas & answer all their queries.
•    To ensure SOP’s of the Medical 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.
•    Initiate inputs to functional & administrative heads to different support clinical committees as and when required.
•    To ensure all the records are maintained in the ward.
•    To ensure reporting of Deaths/ LAMA’s or any other eventuality & their follow ups.
•    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

1.    Quality and timeliness of the service delivery of the patients.
2.    Thorough history taking & Medical Records keeping.
3.    To participate in quality audits in the concerned areas & to ensure preventive & corrective actions.
4.    To ensure error free Medical care in concerned specialty.
5.    To participate in the on going education.
6.    To maintain highest standards in infection control & waste management.
7.    To train all the subordinate staff for best practices to ensure implementation of service excellence programme.
8.    Handling of grievances of patients & the internal staff.
9.    To participate in the performance management system of the all  reporting subordinates
10.    Prompt grievance/complaint handlings.

Education

A recognized postgraduate degree in DM Cardiology from Medical Council of India. Must be registered with State/Medical Council of India.

Experience

6+ years of relevant experience in the concerned specialty post DM.

Knowledge

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