Center Physician (Azhar University)

Job objective
The Center Physician (CP) works under the supervision of Center Manager and the Plasma Operations and Medical Director. The CP plays a critical role in the donation process where he\she has supervision on the whole process and relevant staff to ensure donors safety and plasma quality. The CP ensures that the centers medical staff follows the applicable policies, procedures & regulations.

- Rotational Shifts (not fixed), 5 working days and 2 days off , 8 working hours 

Key responsibility
- Ensure the proper selection of suitable plasmapheresis donors according to the effective policies and procedures as well as the as the clinical experience.
- Observe and confirm compliance of the Center's medical procedures as they affect the safety of the donors and the collected plasma.
- Responsible for the certification, training and performance of the center medical staff as it pertains to the donor assessment and to compliance with the company's policies and procedures.
- Provide additional necessary training, re-certification and corrective actions for the center's medical staff, in collaboration with the training department.
- Perform the required physical examination for donors.
- Review donors related documents carefully.
- Carefully explain the Informed Consent and witness the donor's signature on the form.
- In a private and confidential setting, discuss the high-risk behavior educational material and definitions of high-risk behavior categories in order to provide the donor with the ability to self-exclude from donating.
- Participate in the notification and counselling of donors found to be positive for various infectious disease markers such as HBV, HIV, HCV, syphilis, and other required tests.
- Management of Donor Adverse Event Reactions and the appropriate level of care.
- Timely review of accumulated data to confirm established donor suitability, donor safety and product safety.
- Review the accumulated laboratory data of SPE, syphilis and Total Protein results in a timely basis, as well as the collection records, to determine whether the donor should be deferred for further donation.
- Approve a donor whose SPE results were abnormal for plasmapheresis when normal results are obtained.
- Recommend changes and improvements to Standard Operating Procedures.
- Provide education sessions to the center medical staff according to the company's Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
- Learn, understand and be independent working with the PDS (Plasma Donor System).
- Follows all cGMP and good documentation practice guidelines.
- Review the QA reports for timely and appropriate actions on moderate complexity procedures for test problems.

Academic experience required

Essential:
- Bachelors Degree in Medicine.
Preferred:
- Post graduate studies in Medicine, preferrable.

Professional experience required

- Clinical experience.
- Experience in GxP-regulated environment.

Computing skills
- Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications.

 Personal skills
- Clinical skills.
- Assertiveness and decision-making ability.
- Quality mindset.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Organized and able to manage time effectively.
- Ability to work within a highly regulated and fast paced medical environment.
- Ability to influence and direct center medical staff through effective leadership skills.
- Ability to understand, explain, follow, and enforce SOPs and protocols.
- Ability to plan, communicate and execute activities for the improvement of overall operations.

Languages
Excellent written and spoken English and Arabic.