Physician - Neurology

JOB SUMMARY:

This is a psychology post within a collaborative and expanding consultation liaison (CL) psychiatry service at CCAD. This role offers the opportunity to work within an MDT team and provide psychological care to patients with medical and behavioral needs.  Successful candidate will contribute to a broad hospital wide case load that includes patients with neurological conditions, pain disorders, sleep problems and cancers. Other responsibilities will include supporting patients in the transplant and bariatric pathways and with adjustment to illness.  There will also be an opportunity to develop specialist areas of interest.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Monitors and provides care to patients at CCAD within the Psychology specialty
• Administer therapy and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease or injury
• Analyzes records, reports and test results to diagnose patient’s medical condition
• Interacts with patient to gather additional history and information about medical condition
• Explains procedures and discusses test results or prescribed treatments with patient
• Provides specific treatments to treat patient medical conditions
• Evaluates patient and records applicable notes about patient’s condition for purposes of serving as a record of treatment and / or a possible referral to another member of the health care professional team
• Liaisons with other medical and non-medical staff at CCAD to ensure quality patient treatment
• Supplies and provides care in a culturally appropriate and sensitive manner
• Takes part in administrative functions that ensure the continued operations of the clinical environment, such as committees, task forces and performance improvement measures
• Provide hospital on-call in patient coverage as deemed necessary
• Follows ethical and regulatory guidelines
• Adheres to individual approved clinical privileges, as well as to all policies and procedures of the Physician Staff

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• DOH licensure of licensure eligibility in the Emirates of Abu Dhabi
• Should meet the Maintenance of Certification requirements (where applicable)
• Possess experience in psychological assessment and provision of evidenced based treatment of patients diagnosed with chronic health conditions
• Demonstrated exceptional customer service skills with patients, staff and other physicians
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients and staff
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and protect sensitive data at all times
• Ability to speak and write in English is required

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor degree in the field of psychology and Postgraduate Doctoral degree (Ph.D., Psy.D., Ed.D., D.Clin.Psy) from an approved psychology faculty or an educational faculty with focus on psychology
• Bachelor degree in the field of psychology and Postgraduate full time Master’s degree (includes MSc, MA, M.Phil) of minimum two (2) years from a psychology faculty or an educational faculty with focus on psychology provided that the bachelor degree is minimum four (4) years duration