Adult Psychiatrist

About the role

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare is recruiting an Adult Psychiatrist for its Al-Hasa facility. The psychiatrist provides care to inpatients and outpatients with mental or psychological illnesses, performs consultations and handles referrals from other physicians, and takes part in an integrated mental health programme of therapeutic and preventive medicine.

Key responsibilities

• Provide the full range of psychiatric diagnostic and treatment modalities to inpatients and outpatients, sharing the workload with other psychiatrists in the service.
• If trained in child psychiatry, also treat children and adolescents in outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Take after-hours and weekend calls in rotation with other staff psychiatrists.
• Respond to consultation requests from other services, giving clinical advice or taking full responsibility for the patient's care.
• Help orient other physicians, mental health staff, social workers, nurses and other personnel in early detection, recognition, management or referral of psychiatric cases.
• Deliver in-service training, journal club presentations, ward round case presentations and lectures to JHAH units.
• Administer electroconvulsive therapy under general anesthesia in the recovery room.
• Take part in quality assurance programmes and stay current with professional literature and CME requirements for licensure.

Required profile

• At least two years as a full-time psychiatrist after training and board certification.
• Fluency in both Arabic and English.
• Thorough knowledge of medical ethics, including patient confidentiality, and adherence to JHAH bylaws, rules and regulations.