Consultant Family Medicine (Geriatrics)📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Bupa Arabia is seeking a highly qualified Consultant Family Medicine (Geriatrics) to join our dedicated team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position involves providing comprehensive geriatric care with a primary focus on older adults, addressing their unique medical, functional, cognitive, and psychosocial needs. The role encompasses both in-person clinic and telemedicine settings, ensuring continuity of care and optimal health outcomes for the aging population.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive care for older adults through both in-person clinic visits and virtual consultations, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of acute and chronic medical conditions.
• Conduct thorough clinical evaluations, encompassing history taking, physical or virtual assessment, medication review, and geriatric assessment as appropriate.
• Determine, per clinical protocol, when a patient's condition requires an in-person visit versus safe virtual management, facilitating smooth transitions between channels.
• Develop and implement individualized, evidence-based management plans, including medication optimization, preventive care, lifestyle interventions, and referrals.
• Manage complex geriatric conditions such as multimorbidity, frailty, cognitive impairment, and polypharmacy, ensuring continuity and coordination of care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary healthcare teams, caregivers, and community services to deliver integrated, patient-centered care.
• Utilize digital health technologies alongside standard in-clinic systems to provide high-quality consultations and maintain accurate, timely clinical documentation.
• Promote healthy aging through preventive care, chronic disease management, population health initiatives, and value-based care principles.

Quality Assurance and Professional Standards

• Communicate effectively with patients, families, and caregivers, providing clear guidance on diagnoses, treatment plans, and follow-up care in both settings.
• Ensure compliance with clinical, ethical, regulatory, and telemedicine standards, maintaining accurate, timely, and complete medical documentation regardless of consultation channel.
• Maintain current knowledge of evidence-based practice, in-clinic and telemedicine regulations, and geriatric care through continuous professional development.
• Contribute to clinical governance by participating in quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits, research activities, and regulatory compliance programs.

Telehealth Proficiency and Continuous Learning

• Maintain and continuously enhance clinical knowledge in family medicine with a focus on geriatric care, covering both in-person and telemedicine best practices.
• Participate in relevant conferences, workshops, and continuing medical education (CME) activities to remain current with evidence-based practices and emerging advancements.
• Integrate the latest clinical evidence and digital health knowledge into practice to continuously improve the quality, safety, and effectiveness of patient care.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and timely clinical documentation in the electronic health record (EHR) in compliance with organizational policies and data privacy regulations.
• Demonstrate proficiency in the clinic's EHR system, telemedicine platforms, and digital health technologies, including video consultations and secure communication.

Patient Safety and Collaborative Care

• Uphold the highest standards of patient safety by delivering safe, evidence-based care and adhering to established clinical safety protocols across all patient interactions.
• Identify, report, and escalate patient safety risks, incidents, and quality concerns in accordance with organizational policies.
• Counsel patients and caregivers on diagnoses, treatment plans, medication use, potential adverse effects, and follow-up care to support informed decision-making and medication safety.
• Deliver compassionate, patient-centered consultations through effective communication, comprehensive clinical assessment, empathy, and shared decision-making.
• Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated, patient-centered care and optimize clinical outcomes.
• Provide clinical expertise and recommendations to support evidence-based decision-making and integrated care planning.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this Consultant Family Medicine (Geriatrics) position should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience. A strong commitment to ongoing professional development and staying abreast of the latest advancements in family medicine with a focus on geriatric care, population health management, and value-based care is required.