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.

Environment: Internal: Plasma Operations and Medical Director, Quality, Center Manager, Operations Manager and Medical staff. External: Donors, Health Authorities, government agencies, patient groups, auditors, and community organizations.

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 donors 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.

Key responsibility:

• 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.

Desired Candidate Profile

• 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.