Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist - Endocrine Care Job Snapshot Role: Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist - Endocrine Care Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Industry: Hospital and Health Care Function: Physician Experience: Minimum 8-10 years post-specialization experience Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist - Endocrine Care in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Hospital and Health Care opportunity for an experienced physician specializing in endocrine and metabolic disorders affecting infants, children, and adolescents. The hiring hospital is seeking a consultant with advanced expertise in pediatric diabetes, growth disorders, thyroid and adrenal disease, pituitary conditions, puberty abnormalities, metabolic bone disease, and congenital endocrine disorders within a tertiary pediatric environment.
Job Details Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Industry: Hospital and Health Care Function: Physician Salary: 75000-95000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time Role Context The Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist will provide consultant-level assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and long‑term follow‑up for children with complex hormonal and metabolic conditions. The role combines outpatient subspecialty practice with inpatient consultation across general pediatrics, NICU, and PICU services. By developing evidence‑based treatment pathways and working closely with diabetes teams, geneticists, dietitians, pediatricians, nurses, and other specialists, the consultant will strengthen pediatric endocrine services while improving clinical outcomes and continuity of care for children and their families.
Key Responsibilities
- Diagnose and manage Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents, including complex or difficult‑to‑control cases.
- Assess growth disorders, short stature, abnormal growth patterns, and conditions requiring growth hormone evaluation or treatment.
- Manage thyroid disease, adrenal disorders, pituitary abnormalities, and other pediatric hormonal conditions.
- Evaluate and treat precocious puberty, delayed puberty, and other disorders of pubertal development.
- Provide specialist management for metabolic bone disease and calcium or phosphate abnormalities.
- Diagnose and coordinate treatment for congenital endocrine disorders and complex endocrine syndromes.
- Deliver inpatient pediatric endocrinology consultations for patients admitted to NICU, PICU, and general pediatric services.
- Run outpatient clinics for diabetes, growth, thyroid, puberty, metabolic, and other chronic endocrine conditions requiring long‑term monitoring.
- Interpret endocrine laboratory investigations, dynamic hormone tests, bone age studies, and relevant diagnostic imaging.
- Develop individualized treatment plans based on clinical presentation, biochemical findings, growth patterns, family history, and long‑term health risks.
- Participate in multidisciplinary diabetes, obesity, genetics, and complex pediatric care clinics.
- Guide families in insulin management, glucose monitoring, hormone replacement therapy, growth surveillance, nutrition, and lifestyle modification.
- Explain diagnoses, treatment choices, anticipated outcomes, and long‑term management requirements clearly to children and their families.
- Contribute to expansion and improvement of pediatric endocrinology services, including development of clinical pathways and evidence‑based protocols.
- Participate in morbidity and mortality reviews, clinical audits, quality improvement programs, and clinical governance activities.
- Mentor residents, junior physicians, fellows, nursing staff, and other members of the pediatric care team.
- Support medical education through teaching sessions, continuing medical education programs, case discussions, and conference participation.
- Contribute to pediatric endocrine research, case studies, institutional reviews, and academic initiatives.
Ideal Profile
- Medical degree such as MD, MBBS, or equivalent from a recognized institution.
- Board Certification in Pediatrics with accredited fellowship training in Pediatric Endocrinology.
- American Board, Royal College, Arab Board, or another recognized equivalent specialist certification.
- Minimum 8-10 years of post‑specialization experience, including substantial consultant‑level pediatric endocrinology practice.
- Strong clinical experience managing complex endocrine and metabolic disorders in infants, children, and adolescents.
- Advanced knowledge of pediatric diabetes, growth disorders, thyroid disease, adrenal and pituitary conditions, puberty disorders, and metabolic bone disease.
- Experience providing pediatric subspecialty consultation within tertiary hospital environments.
- Proven ability to manage chronic endocrine conditions requiring long‑term monitoring and coordinated multidisciplinary care.
- Strong leadership skills with experience contributing to clinical pathways, quality initiatives, education, or service development.
- Clear and compassionate communication skills when counseling children, parents, and caregivers regarding chronic or complex medical conditions.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with pediatricians, intensivists, geneticists, dietitians, diabetes educators, nursing teams, and other subspecialists.
- Fluency in English is expected, while Arabic language ability is an advantage.
Skills Set
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Type 1 diabetes management
- Type 2 diabetes management
- Pediatric insulin therapy
- Continuous glucose monitoring
- Growth disorder assessment
- Short stature evaluation
- Growth hormone therapy
- Thyroid disorder management
- Adrenal disease management
- Pituitary disorder management
- Precocious puberty
- Delayed puberty
- Metabolic bone disease
- Calcium and phosphate disorders
- Congenital endocrine abnormalities
- Dynamic hormone testing
- Endocrine laboratory interpretation
- Bone age assessment
- Pediatric obesity management
- Hormone replacement therapy
- NICU endocrine consultation
- PICU endocrine consultation
- Multidisciplinary diabetes care
- Long‑term endocrine follow‑up
- Clinical pathway development
- Clinical audit
- Quality improvement
- Medical education
- Pediatric endocrine research
Why Join Us
This opportunity places an experienced pediatric endocrinologist within Dubai 's expanding Hospital and Health Care sector, where demand for specialist management of childhood diabetes, growth disorders, obesity, and complex hormonal disease continues to increase. The consultant will have the opportunity to influence service development, manage challenging tertiary‑level cases, collaborate across pediatric specialties, and contribute to teaching and research. The position offers professional stability, access to advanced clinical resources, and meaningful scope to develop specialized pediatric endocrine services.
About the Company
Allocation Assist Middle East works with hospitals and specialist healthcare organizations across the UAE and wider Middle East to recruit experienced consultant physicians. Its medical recruitment services focus on connecting internationally qualified specialists with advanced clinical positions where their subspecialty expertise can strengthen hospital services and improve patient care.