Careers

Your Profile:
At the St. Maarten Medical Center, you will serve as an all-round Ophthalmologist for a multicultural population. You should have a broad interest in your specialization and be ready to take on a leading role in advancing the department. Providing quality care and maintaining continuity of care for our patients is of utmost importance to you. You are enthusiastic with excellent interpersonal skills, positive, flexible, and willing to actively contribute to the daily operations of our establishment and the ongoing development of our organization.

What We Offer:
At our cutting-edge Eye Care clinic, we offer you the opportunity to work at in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with the latest technology, offering various sub-specialties with an enthousiastic team of qualified professionals. You’ll embark on a full-time role within our expanding organization with many opportunities for personal and professional development.

Requirements:

• Board-certified Ophthalmologist;
• Patient-centered with excellent communication skills;
• Ambitious and committed to continuity and quality of care;
• Comfortable managing multiple responsibilities and highly flexible;
• High level of integrity and reliability;
• Proficiency in English preferred; knowledge of French and Spanish is a plus.

Tasks:

• Examines, diagnoses and treats patients, if necessary using information and data from other medical disciplines and in coordination and consultation with medical specialists and other care providers;
• Writes treatment plans and records relevant data;
• Coordinates multidisciplinary patient care;
• Prescribes and administers medication, provides information to patients and performs medical procedures;
• Performs rounds, assesses the health status and stability of the patient in relation to the treatment plan and adjusts the plan if necessary.
• Contributes to the development and execution of quality management by developing protocols and procedures in cooperation with other medical specialists.

SMMC External Vacancy Ad: Ophthalmologist

Interested?
For more information, contact the head of the Medical Staff Bureau (MSB) Ms. Hester Versleyen at + 1 (721) 543-1111 ext. 2503 or 2512. Your motivation letter and resume can be submitted to the MSB via medicalstaffbureau@smmc.sx. A copy of both should be submitted to the Labor and Social Affairs Dept. located on Soualiga Road #1, Philipsburg, St. Maarten.
 

St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) is an ambitious and growing hospital organization on 
St. Maarten. With more than 425 FTE’s, 28 Specialists and a capacity of 80 beds, we continuously strive to ensure safe, quality health care. Our primary service area of St. Maarten, Statia and Saba, represents a total population of approximately 60.000 people, constituting a multi-cultural mix with more than 100 different nationalities. In addition, we also offer health care services to two million visitors annually. SMMC has started the construction of the new St. Maarten General Hospital (SMGH) to expand its services to accommodate the increased care demand of the people of St. Maarten, its visitors, and neighboring islands. The new hospital is planned to be operational in 2026.