Consultant Pediatric ENT - Advanced Airway Care

Allocation Assist Middle East; Dubai; Presencial; AED 65.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Allocation Assist Middle East seeks a Consultant Pediatric ENT with advanced airway care expertise to lead specialized pediatric ENT services in Dubai. The role involves diagnostic evaluation, surgical intervention, and multidisciplinary decision-making for infants, children, and adolescents with ENT conditions.

The ideal candidate has Western-trained pediatric ENT experience, UAE licensing eligibility, and a track record in tonsil/adenoid procedures, ventilation tubes, and complex airway

Formación

• Medical degree from a recognized institution.
• Formal specialty training in Otolaryngology.
• Board Certification, Fellowship, or equivalent in ENT.
• Subspecialty fellowship or advanced training in Pediatric ENT.
• Western-trained education or clinical experience mandatory.
• Appropriate UAE Consultant license, eligibility, or ability to obtain license.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Consultant Pediatric ENT.

Responsabilidades

• Provide consultant-level assessment for pediatric ENT patients.
• Diagnose and manage congenital, recurrent, and chronic ENT disorders.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary care with anesthesia, pulmonology, and ICU teams.
• Perform ventilation tube insertions and pediatric ENT procedures within privileges.
• Conduct outpatient clinics and inpatient consultations for children.
• Review investigations, imaging, and treatment history; inform families.

Conocimientos

Pediatric ENT

Airway care

Ventilation tubes

Endoscopy

Tonsillectomy

Adenoidectomy

Sleep-disordered breathing

Audiology collaboration

Multidisciplinary care

Pediatric anesthesia coordination

Educación

Medical degree

Formal Otolaryngology specialty training

Board Certification or equivalent

Western-trained education/experience

UAE consultant license eligibility

Experience in tertiary-care hospital

Descripción del empleo

Consultant Pediatric ENT - Advanced Airway Care Job Snapshot

Consultant Pediatric ENT - Advanced Airway Care in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Hospital and Health Care opportunity for an experienced pediatric otolaryngologist providing comprehensive medical and surgical treatment for infants, children, and adolescents with ear, nose, throat, airway, hearing, sleep, speech, swallowing, and congenital ENT disorders. This hiring role requires Western training, advanced pediatric ENT surgical capability, multidisciplinary clinical experience, and strong expertise in airway procedures, tonsil and adenoid surgery, ventilation tube insertion, endoscopy, hearing assessment, and complex family-centered care.

Job Details Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Industry: Hospital and Health Care Function: Physician Salary: 65000-85000 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 ENT will lead specialist care for young patients whose otolaryngological conditions can affect hearing, breathing, sleep, speech, swallowing, development, and quality of life. The position combines diagnostic evaluation, conservative treatment, surgical intervention, postoperative surveillance, and multidisciplinary decision-making. Particular importance is placed on identifying conditions early, selecting appropriate medical or operative treatment, and supporting children and families throughout investigation, surgery, recovery, and long‑term follow‑up.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide consultant‑level assessment for infants, children, and adolescents presenting with ENT symptoms.
• Diagnose acute, recurrent, chronic, congenital, and developmental otolaryngological disorders.
• Evaluate recurrent ear infections and chronic middle‑ear disease.
• Assess children with hearing loss and determine appropriate diagnostic and treatment pathways.
• Manage otitis media with effusion and related hearing concerns.
• Evaluate tympanic membrane abnormalities and persistent middle‑ear dysfunction.
• Determine when ventilation tube insertion is clinically appropriate.
• Perform ventilation tube procedures within approved surgical privileges.
• Assess recurrent tonsillitis and chronic tonsillar disease.
• Diagnose adenoid hypertrophy and related nasal or airway obstruction.
• Perform tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy when clinically indicated.
• Evaluate children with chronic nasal obstruction.
• Diagnose and manage pediatric sinus disease.
• Assess recurrent and chronic rhinosinusitis.
• Use medical and surgical treatment strategies according to disease severity and response to therapy.
• Perform nasal and upper airway endoscopy when appropriate.
• Interpret endoscopic findings and integrate them into treatment planning.
• Evaluate structural and functional pediatric airway abnormalities.
• Assess children with stridor, noisy breathing, persistent airway symptoms, or suspected upper airway obstruction.
• Determine appropriate investigations for complex airway presentations.
• Perform pediatric airway procedures within approved clinical scope and subspecialty training.
• Coordinate complex airway management with pediatric anesthesia, pulmonology, and intensive care teams when required.
• Assess sleep‑disordered breathing in children.
• Evaluate symptoms associated with upper airway obstruction during sleep.
• Determine whether tonsillar, adenoid, nasal, or other anatomical abnormalities contribute to sleep‑related symptoms.
• Coordinate further sleep assessment where clinically necessary.
• Develop treatment plans for pediatric obstructive airway conditions.
• Evaluate speech and swallowing disorders when ENT pathology may be contributing.
• Collaborate with speech and language therapists on complex communication and swallowing presentations.
• Assess congenital ENT abnormalities affecting the ear, nose, throat, airway, and related structures.
• Develop long‑term care strategies for children with developmental or congenital otolaryngological conditions.
• Provide second opinions for complex pediatric ENT cases.
• Review previous investigations, operative records, imaging, and treatment history when assessing referred patients.
• Perform detailed physical examinations adapted to pediatric age and developmental level.
• Request appropriate laboratory, audiological, endoscopic, and radiological investigations.
• Review audiological assessments and correlate findings with clinical examination.
• Interpret relevant hearing tests in collaboration with audiology teams.
• Review CT and MRI imaging relevant to pediatric ENT disease.
• Collaborate with radiologists when complex anatomical or pathological findings require further interpretation.
• Develop individualized medical treatment plans.
• Determine whether conservative treatment, surveillance, surgery, or multidisciplinary referral is most appropriate.
• Conduct comprehensive preoperative assessments before pediatric ENT surgery.
• Review medical history, comorbidities, airway considerations, imaging, and procedural risk.
• Discuss expected benefits, treatment alternatives, possible complications, and recovery with parents or guardians.
• Communicate with children using age‑appropriate and reassuring methods.
• Obtain informed consent according to UAE healthcare requirements and institutional policy.
• Perform pediatric ENT operations according to approved privileges and evidence‑based practice.
• Ensure appropriate perioperative coordination with pediatric anesthesia teams.
• Provide postoperative monitoring following tonsil, adenoid, ear, airway, and other ENT procedures.
• Assess postoperative pain, bleeding, infection, airway compromise, and other complications.
• Monitor hearing, breathing, swallowing, and symptom improvement following treatment.
• Modify treatment and follow‑up plans according to clinical response.
• Coordinate rehabilitation where hearing, speech, or swallowing function is affected.
• Work closely with audiologists on hearing assessment and rehabilitation.
• Collaborate with speech therapists on speech, language, resonance, and swallowing concerns.
• Provide specialist advice to pediatricians managing children with ENT‑related symptoms.
• Work with neonatologists when newborn or premature patients require otolaryngology consultation.
• Collaborate with pulmonologists and respiratory specialists for complex airway or breathing disorders.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary input for patients with neurological, developmental, genetic, or craniofacial conditions.
• Participate in multidisciplinary pediatric case conferences.
• Provide inpatient consultations for hospitalized children requiring specialist ENT review.
• Conduct outpatient clinics for new consultations, follow‑up, and postoperative evaluation.
• Participate in scheduled pediatric ENT operating lists.
• Provide emergency or urgent ENT assessment according to departmental requirements.
• Maintain complete and timely consultation notes.
• Prepare accurate operative reports following surgical procedures.
• Document investigation findings, diagnoses, treatment decisions, consent, and follow‑up plans.
• Ensure medical records meet UAE healthcare and institutional standards.
• Follow infection prevention requirements throughout outpatient, procedural, and surgical care.
• Maintain high standards of surgical safety.
• Participate in departmental quality improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to clinical audits reviewing complications, outcomes, and service performance.
• Participate in morbidity and clinical case reviews.
• Support development and refinement of pediatric ENT pathways and clinical protocols.
• Teach residents, fellows, junior physicians, and medical students where appropriate.
• Contribute to departmental academic programs.
• Participate in clinical research where opportunities are available.
• Maintain continuing medical education in pediatric otolaryngology.
• Stay current with advances in airway surgery, hearing care, pediatric endoscopy, sleep‑disordered breathing, and minimally invasive ENT techniques.

Ideal Profile

• Medical degree from a recognized institution.
• Completion of formal specialty training in Otolaryngology.
• Board Certification, Fellowship, or equivalent recognized ENT qualification.
• Subspecialty fellowship or advanced training in Pediatric ENT.
• Western‑trained education or clinical experience in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, NewZealand, or an equivalent healthcare system is mandatory.
• Appropriate UAE Consultant license, eligibility, or ability to obtain the required professional license.
• Minimum 5years of experience as a Consultant Pediatric ENT.
• Previous experience in a reputable tertiary‑care hospital.
• Extensive clinical experience with infants, children, and adolescents.
• Strong expertise in pediatric ear disease.
• Experience managing recurrent otitis media and hearing loss.
• Competence in ventilation tube insertion.
• Demonstrated experience performing tonsillectomy.
• Strong experience with adenoidectomy.
• Expertise in pediatric airway assessment.
• Surgical experience with pediatric airway disorders is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of sleep‑disordered breathing.
• Experience managing pediatric sinus disorders.
• Competence in diagnostic endoscopy.
• Ability to evaluate congenital ENT conditions.
• Familiarity with speech and swallowing disorders associated with ENT pathology.
• Strong ability to interpret audiological investigations.
• Experience reviewing CT and MRI imaging relevant to otolaryngology.
• Excellent clinical judgment in determining medical versus surgical management.
• Strong perioperative and postoperative management capability.
• Experience providing multidisciplinary care with pediatrics, neonatology, audiology, speech therapy, anesthesia, and respiratory specialties.
• Strong family counselling skills.
• Ability to communicate complex diagnoses and treatment plans clearly.
• Experience supervising junior physicians is desirable.
• Teaching and academic experience are advantageous.
• Clinical research involvement is preferred.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural healthcare environment.
• Commitment to compassionate, evidence‑based, family‑centered care.
• Strong professional standards in clinical governance, infection prevention, patient safety, and continuous development.

Skills Set

• Pediatric ENT
• Pediatric otolaryngology
• Pediatric ear disorders
• Pediatric nose disorders
• Pediatric throat disorders
• Pediatric airway care
• Recurrent ear infections
• Otitis media
• Middle‑ear disease
• Hearing loss
• Hearing assessment
• Audiology interpretation
• Ventilation tube insertion
• Tympanic membrane assessment
• Tonsillitis
• Tonsillectomy
• Adenoid disease
• Adenoidectomy
• Nasal obstruction
• Pediatric sinus disorders
• Rhinosinusitis
• Pediatric endoscopy
• Nasal endoscopy
• Upper airway endoscopy
• Airway abnormalities
• Pediatric airway surgery
• Sleep‑disordered breathing
• Pediatric airway obstruction
• Speech disorders
• Swallowing disorders
• Congenital ENT conditions
• Developmental ENT disorders
• Pediatric surgical planning
• Preoperative assessment
• Postoperative ENT care
• Pediatric anesthesia coordination
• Surgical complication management
• CT interpretation
• MRI interpretation
• Audiology collaboration
• Speech therapy collaboration
• Pediatric medicine collaboration
• Neonatology collaboration
• Respiratory medicine collaboration
• Multidisciplinary pediatric care
• Second‑opinion consultation
• Family counselling
• Pediatric patient communication
• Clinical documentation
• Operative reporting
• Surgical safety
• Infection prevention
• Patient safety
• Clinical governance
• Quality improvement
• Clinical audit
• Resident supervision
• Medical teaching
• Clinical research
• Continuing medical education

Why Join Us

Pediatric otolaryngology remains an important subspecialty within Hospital and Health Care because disorders affecting hearing, breathing, sleep, speech, and swallowing can have lasting effects on childhood development. This opportunity offers extensive exposure to complex pediatric ENT cases, advanced airway work, hearing‑related care, surgical treatment, and multidisciplinary pediatric services. It also provides a strong platform for consultant‑level leadership, academic development, research participation, teaching, and continued advancement in modern pediatric otolaryngology.