Flight Doctor - French Speaking

Company Description

Iqarus has a proud history, extending over 40 years, of delivering fully-integrated healthcare solutions in complex and demanding operating environments. We operate across the medical spectrum from primary care and occupational health, to advanced pre-hospital trauma care, through to full scale laboratory, radiological, diagnostic and surgical capabilities. Our approach projects the highest standards of clinical care into the environments in which we operate, through a combination of local knowledge, multinational medical staff, integrated global clinical governance, training and medical supply. Our highly-skilled operational teams deliver frontline and preventative services to mitigate health risk and help organisations keep their workforces safe, healthy, resilient and productive. By increasing the quality, simplicity and efficiency of health delivery we enhance our clients' return on investment in health and in many instances, help elevate social and/or humanitarian objectives too. Our clients include multinationals and SMEs, governments, non-governmental organisations, supra-nationals, and non-governmental organisations.

Job Description

Role summary:

The Flight Doctor is responsible for leading clinical resuscitation and stabilisation of patients in flight, whilst working as a multi-disciplined team.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Lead all aspects of clinical care related to critical care transportation and flight medicine
• Liaise with other medical staff to ensure continuity of care
• Ensures that all medical records are properly kept and maintained
• Provision of clinical reporting into Iqarus Regional Medical Director
• Support clinical mentoring for staff development
• Ensure best practice in line with clinical guidelines and SOPs
• Support the clinical excellence framework under direction from the Regional Medical Director
• Provide liaison with external agencies where required to promote chain of care continuity and professional referral/patient handover

This list is non-exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to undertake additional duties that are not specifically listed above.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience:

• A first level degree in Medicine with a minimum of 3 years continuous progressive clinical experience' post qualification.
• Postgraduate training in Anaesthesia or Emergency Medicine or Aero-Medicine with a minimum of three (3) years' post qualification experience.
• Currently registered and licensed to practice medicine and apply specialty without supervision in own country

Key Skills:

• Certification in ATLS/ITLS/PHTLS/ETC (or equivalent) and ACLS/BLS
• Training in Aviation Medicine
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent IT skills including use of electronic medical records systems
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in French

Essential Capabilities:

• Ability to work calmly and effectively under high-stress work conditions
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplined team, with clinical and non-clinical personnel

Additional Information