King Abdulaziz Medical City Hospitals

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is structurally a vast platform of ancient rocks, once continuous with north-east Africa. The official currency is Riyal and its weather varies from hot and dry during the summer and cold during the winter. The form of government is monarchy and the official religion is Islam.

The working population of the Kingdom is a multi-cultural environment since the job offer provides competitive salary and benefits for all nationalities alike.

NATIONAL GUARD HEALTH AFFAIRS

National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA) is one of the largest health organizations in the Kingdom providing modern medical care to National Guard employees & their dependents, as well as to Saudi Nationals with tertiary health problems.

Under the umbrella of NGHA, there are four hospitals and sixty primary and secondary health centers around the Kingdom. Two of these hospitals are Imam AbdulRahman Al-Faisal Hospital (IAAFH) in Dammam and King Abdulaziz Hospital (KAH) in Al Ahsa.

The other two hospitals have expanded over the last few years to become major medical cities; namely King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC) in Riyadh and KAMC in Jeddah.

NGHA has also become well known internationally, especially in successful conjoined twins separations. Nine sets of conjoined twins have been successfully separated at KAMC in Riyadh. This is only one example of many high level services that have made NGHA the heart of medicine in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi Arabian National Guard Health Affairs mission is to provide the highest quality of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare services whilst ensuring efficiency and proper utilization of available resources. Equally important to our mission are the components of Preventive Medicine, Health Education, Health Research & Continuous Quality Improvement.

KINGABDULAZIZ MEDICAL CITY - Riyadh

This hospital, which has a 1025-bed capacity, is based in the Central Region of Saudi Arabia. The facility includes new state-of-the art developments such as Cardiac and Liver Center; 21 bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Dental, Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care, Long Term Care/ Rehabilitation, Emergency Care and Trauma Centers. Other adult and pediatric services provided include: Surgical and Medical wards, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Labor and Delivery, Oncology, Antenatal and Post Partum wards); Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric ICU, Neonatal ICU, Operating Rooms, Ambulatory Care Center, Home Health Care Program, VIP Wards, Royal Suite, College of Medicine and Nursing College.

KINGABDULAZIZ MEDICAL CITY- Jeddah

The King Khalid Hospital is a 531- bed hospital located in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. It includes the new King Abdulaziz Oncology Center, which is the primary oncology research and treatment center for the National Guard in Saudi Arabia. The hospital also has a satellite 60-bed Transitional Care Unit, the Dar Al Amman Charity Center, which is located in downtown Jeddah. Other services provided for the catchment population are: Medical, Surgical, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Labor and Delivery, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for Adult, Pediatric and Neonatal Services, Coronary Care Unit (CCU), Emergency Room, Operating Rooms, VIP Wards, Day Center to include Ambulatory Surgery, and several Primary Health Care clinics spread over the Western Region.

IMAMABDULRAHMAN AL-FAISAL HOSPITAL(IAAFH) - Dammam

This Hospital, like Al Hassa, is based in the Eastern region of Saudi Arabia and has 146-bed capacity. The adult and pediatric services will provide Outpatient Clinics, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Radiology, Emergency Room, Medical & Surgical Wards, Operating Room, Day Surgery, Labor & Delivery Ward, Intensive Care Unit and VIP Ward.

KING ABDULAZIZ HOSPITAL (KAH) - Al Hassa

The Hospital will be a 312-bed facility and, will provide primary and secondary care to National Guard personnel. The range of services for the adult and pediatric patient population will include Outpatient Clinics, Pharmacy, four Operating Rooms, Day Surgery, Hemodialysis, Physical Therapy, Radiology, Endoscopy, Emergency Room, Intensive Care Unit, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Labor and Delivery Rooms, Medical & Surgical Wards, Ophthalmology, ENT and VIP Wards.

Working in KAMC & KSA

Working in Saudi Arabia offers a unique opportunity to work with a multicultural group of skilled and devoted professionals. Nursing services currently have approximately 3, 000 Nursing and non-Nursing positions comprising personnel from over 44 different nationality bases across the globe. This nationality multiplicity reflects the diversity in culture and clinical skills within nursing services. Joint Commission International (JCI) standards of care and practice have been adopted as the unifying standard.

We promote a distinguished positive working environment of life long learning for nurses, students, and other health care providers, focusing on continuous quality initiatives, evidence based practice and research. As a result there are many resources available to our nurses in terms of `on the floor' support. Each specialty area has its own Clinical Resource Nurse who is employed especially to support and facilitate staff learning and skill building. We are committed to career advancement, recruitment and retention of expert resources, and promotion of state of the art technology and nursing informatics.

We strive to establish and maintain dynamic academic settings that lead to the most attractive career opportunities in nursing by providing a broad range of educational programs e.g.

• BLS, PALS, ACLS, PHTLS, ATLS, ATCN, FCCS, and Disaster Management... these courses are internationally certified. They are taken through the Post Graduate Training Center, for a price (approx 50 pounds sterling).
• Within Nursing Education we offer several courses free of charge... preceptorship, teaching and assessing nursing students, haemodynamics, and the Emergency Nursing Certificate - the latter at diploma / Bachelor's / Master's level - these are all credited by California Nursing Board. South Bank and the Saudi Council as well as our own University will pick up the Emergency Nursing Course.
• A yearlong diploma in nursing and education management - which our employees can access, for a price.
• We also offer Monash Masters in Nursing - modular series, and the nurses pay for each module

Contracts are for one year, with a sign on bonus equivalent to one-month salary if you re-contract.  Other benefits include:

1. Tax Free Salary (every thing in KSA is tax free)
2. Able to Save the Majority of Your Salary
3. Yearly Service Award (Re-contracting Bonus)
4. Provision of Furnished Housing
5. Yearly Round Trip ticket to Point of Hire
6. Free Medical Coverage
7. Opportunity to Travel (Europe, Fareast and Africa)
8. Single contract /Married contract
9. Some of the positions with a Family Contract (Accompanied Status) up to 3 eligible dependents, one of whom is a spouse
10. Education Allowances for Married contract (2 eligible dependents only, 6-18 years of age)

· SR23,000 each eligible dependent per school year, subject to submission of school invoices

· Annual round-trip ticket to Riyadh directly from the location of the school outside the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

1. Housing Accommodation
2. Transportation Services
3. Free mobilization and de-mobilization flights to and from point of origin.
4. Baggage allowance
5. 30days of Annual Leave per year ( 2.5 days per month of service, to be utilized by the employee after 6 months of service)
6. Holiday Leave per year ( 5 Days Eid Al Fitr, 5 Days Hajj and 1 Day Saudi National Day)
7. Mid year Benefit (Ticket and 10 days post leave)
8. Entitle for the Overtime Pay (Rate per hour * 150%)
9. Saudi Service Award (Consisting of One-half months basic salary for each of the first five years of service and one month basic salary for each year of services thereafter)
10. Annual vacation air tickets to point of origin (on contract renewal)
11. Uniform & laundry
12. Recreation Services
13. Medical library/ Internet access
14. Telephone access code for personal national and international phone calls (Charges are part of salary deductions)
15. 12 month contracts (renewable)
16. Merit increase upon renewal of contract, maximum of 6%
17. Availability of on Job training & courses
18. Availability of Promotion & Transfer