Consultant Pediatric Intensivist - Critical Care

Allocation Assist Middle East; Dubai; On-site; AED 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free compensation

Housing and transportation support

Relocation assistance

Family medical insurance

Continued training and professional成长

Job summary

Allocation Assist Middle East seeks a Consultant Pediatric Intensivist - Critical Care in Dubai, UAE. The role demands senior expertise in managing critically ill infants, children, and adolescents, leading complex PICU cases with advanced life-support, and coordinating multidisciplinary teams in a high-acuity setting.

The ideal candidate is DHA-eligible, Western-trained, and has 3–5 years post-board experience in a consultant PICU position.

Qualifications

• Board-certified pediatric intensive care specialist.
• Experience leading high-acuity PICU patients.
• Western-trained and DHA-eligible in Dubai.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive intensive care for critically ill pediatric patients.
• Lead daily PICU assessment and treatment planning.
• Manage ventilation and airway strategies for complex cases.
• Coordinate complex care with surgical, medical, and nursing teams.
• Mentor junior clinicians and contribute to education.

Skills

PICU management

Mechanical ventilation

Invasive monitoring

Multidisciplinary leadership

Critical care pharmacology

Family-centered care

Education

Board Certification in Pediatric Intensive Care

Job description

Consultant Pediatric Intensivist - Critical Care Job Snapshot

Role: Consultant Pediatric Intensivist - Critical Care

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Hospital and Health Care

Function: Physician

Experience: Minimum 3-5 years post-board consultant experience

Job Type: Full-time

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates

City: Dubai

Industry: Hospital and Health Care

Function: Physician

Salary: 70000-90000 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

Position Overview

Consultant Pediatric Intensivist - Critical Care in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Hospital and Health Care opportunity for a Western-trained physician with advanced expertise in managing critically ill infants, children, and adolescents. This hiring role is suited to an experienced pediatric critical care consultant capable of leading complex PICU cases, delivering advanced life-support interventions, and coordinating multidisciplinary treatment within a high-acuity intensive care environment.

Role Context

The Consultant Pediatric Intensivist will provide consultant-level care for children with life-threatening medical and surgical conditions requiring continuous monitoring, organ support, and rapid clinical intervention. The role combines advanced critical care medicine, procedural expertise, multidisciplinary leadership, family communication, and ongoing reassessment of complex treatment plans. By guiding high-acuity PICU management and responding effectively to clinical deterioration, the consultant will play a central role in improving survival, recovery, and quality of care for critically ill pediatric patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive intensive care for critically ill pediatric patients admitted with complex medical, surgical, neurological, respiratory, cardiac, infectious, and multisystem conditions.
• Lead daily PICU assessment, clinical decision-making, treatment planning, and ongoing patient review.
• Initiate and manage invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation according to individual respiratory requirements.
• Provide advanced airway management and oversee ventilatory strategies for patients with severe respiratory failure.
• Participate in ECMO assessment and management for appropriately selected critically ill pediatric patients.
• Perform and supervise invasive hemodynamic monitoring and other advanced critical care procedures.
• Manage vasoactive medications, fluid therapy, sedation, analgesia, and organ-support strategies.
• Recognize early signs of clinical deterioration and initiate timely resuscitation or escalation of care.
• Develop individualized treatment plans based on diagnosis, physiological status, investigations, and response to therapy.
• Coordinate complex care with pediatric surgeons, pediatricians, anesthesiologists, cardiologists, neurologists, infectious disease specialists, nurses, respiratory therapists, and allied health professionals.
• Lead multidisciplinary discussions for patients requiring prolonged or complex intensive care.
• Provide clear clinical updates and compassionate counseling to parents and families regarding diagnosis, prognosis, treatment options, and expected progress.
• Support emergency stabilization and transfer of critically ill children requiring admission to the PICU.
• Review laboratory, imaging, microbiological, and physiological monitoring data to guide treatment decisions.
• Promote evidence‑based infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship practices within intensive care.
• Ensure accurate documentation of assessments, procedures, clinical decisions, treatment changes, and family discussions.
• Mentor junior physicians, residents, fellows, nurses, and other clinical staff involved in pediatric critical care.
• Contribute to simulation training, bedside teaching, morbidity reviews, and continuing clinical education.
• Lead or support quality improvement programs focused on patient safety, clinical outcomes, and PICU performance.
• Participate in clinical research, audits, protocol development, and adoption of advances in pediatric critical care medicine.
• Maintain compliance with DHA requirements, hospital policies, ethical standards, and internationally recognized intensive care practices.

Ideal Profile

• Medical degree such as MD, MBBS, or an equivalent recognized qualification.
• Board Certification in Pediatric Intensive Care or Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
• Western training from the USA, UK, Canada, or an equivalent recognized system is mandatory.
• Minimum 3-5 years of post-board experience in a consultant-level PICU position.
• Eligibility for DHA Consultant licensure in Dubai.
• Extensive experience managing high-acuity pediatric medical and surgical cases.
• Proven competence in mechanical ventilation and advanced airway management.
• Practical expertise in invasive monitoring and complex hemodynamic support.
• Experience with ECMO management or advanced extracorporeal life‑support programs is highly valuable.
• Strong knowledge of pediatric resuscitation, shock management, sepsis, respiratory failure, and multisystem organ dysfunction.
• Ability to make rapid, evidence-based decisions in unstable and time-critical situations.
• Demonstrated leadership in multidisciplinary intensive care environments.
• Strong communication skills with physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, patients, and families.
• Commitment to family‑centered pediatric care and compassionate communication during critical illness.
• Experience mentoring junior clinical staff and contributing to medical education.
• Strong interest in quality improvement, research, clinical governance, and continuing professional development.

Skills Set

• Pediatric intensive care
• Pediatric critical care medicine
• PICU management
• Mechanical ventilation
• Non-invasive ventilation
• Advanced airway management
• ECMO
• Invasive monitoring
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Vasoactive therapy
• Pediatric resuscitation
• Shock management
• Pediatric sepsis management
• Respiratory failure management
• Multiorgan support
• Sedation and analgesia
• Fluid management
• Emergency stabilization
• Critical care pharmacology
• Pediatric postoperative care
• High-acuity patient management
• Clinical deterioration assessment
• Multidisciplinary intensive care
• Family-centered care
• Clinical decision‑making
• Patient safety
• Infection prevention
• Clinical documentation
• Clinical governance
• Quality improvement
• Medical education
• Clinical research
• DHA licensing

Why Join Us

Pediatric intensive care is one of the most advanced and clinically demanding areas within Hospital and Health Care, requiring highly trained physicians who can manage rapidly changing and life‑threatening conditions.

This opportunity provides access to modern PICU technology, advanced life‑support systems, complex tertiary referrals, and multidisciplinary clinical expertise.

• tax‑free compensation
• performance‑based incentives
• family medical insurance
• housing and transportation support
• relocation assistance
• opportunities for continued training and professional growth in pediatric critical care

About the Company

Allocation Assist Middle East connects experienced physicians with consultant and specialist opportunities across hospitals and advanced healthcare organizations in the UAE and wider Middle East. The company supports recruitment for high‑demand specialties, including pediatric intensive care, critical care medicine, pediatrics, surgery, and other complex disciplines requiring advanced clinical expertise.