Hospital Clinician

About the role

Alexandra Hospital is recruiting Hospital Clinicians (HC) under its Hospital Clinical Programme (HCP). HC clinicians bring in-depth knowledge of Medicine, Surgery and Emergency & Acute Care, plus knowledge across domains to manage patients with multiple comorbidities and complex social needs holistically, working with other healthcare team members to anchor broad-based ward care.

Key responsibilities

• Recognise patients who are deteriorating clinically and notify the specialist-in-charge promptly, coordinating a team to assist
• Perform a targeted clinical assessment, order initial investigations and institute timely management steps to stabilise the patient
• Lead a code based on ACLS principles where applicable and arrange transfer to a higher level of care such as ICU
• Keep patients and families informed and involved in shared decision-making
• Evaluate common adult presentations such as fever, chest pain, shortness of breath, abdominal pain, dizziness, falls, syncope, neurological deficits, headache, altered mental state, oliguria and acute gastrointestinal bleeding
• Initiate provisional care plans for conditions such as sepsis, stroke, arrhythmias, asthma/COPD, pulmonary embolism, heart failure, shock, head injury, acute arthritis, bleeding from the GI tract, transfusion medicine and end-of-life care
• Apply advanced care planning, informed consent, shared decision-making and systems-based practice in transitions of care

Required profile

• Medical staff who have completed basic specialist training
• Singaporeans or PRs: at least PGY 5 of training
• Non-Singaporeans or non-PRs: at least 5 years of work in a Singapore public healthcare institution
• Registered with the Singapore Medical Council