Consultant Pediatric Rehabilitation - Functional Recovery

Allocation Assist Middle East; Dubai; On-site; AED 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Allocation Assist Middle East is seeking a Consultant Pediatric Rehabilitation to lead specialized rehabilitation for infants, children, and adolescents in Dubai. You will coordinate medical and therapy teams to set functional goals and optimize participation and independence.

Ideal candidates have a medical degree with pediatric rehabilitation specialization and 5+ years of relevant experience, DHA/UAE licensing eligibility, and a patient-centered, family-focused approach.

Qualifications

• Medical degree from a recognized institution.
• Consultant qualification in Pediatric Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatrics, Neurology, Orthopedics, or another relevant pathway.
• Appropriate DHA/UAE licensing eligibility.
• Minimum 5 years of clinical experience in pediatric rehabilitation.
• Strong knowledge of cerebral palsy and developmental disorders.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant-level assessment for children requiring rehabilitation services.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary rehabilitation care across therapy teams.
• Lead rehabilitation case conferences and set shared goals.
• Develop individualized, measurable treatment plans for each child.
• Monitor progress and adjust plans based on response.

Skills

Pediatric rehabilitation

Multidisciplinary coordination

Functional goal setting

Leadership in rehabilitation

Education

Medical degree

Pediatric Rehabilitation specialty

Job description

Job Snapshot

Consultant Pediatric Rehabilitation - Functional Recovery Job Snapshot Role: Consultant Pediatric Rehabilitation - Functional Recovery Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Industry: Hospital and Health Care Function: Physician Experience: Minimum 5 years relevant clinical experience Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Consultant Pediatric Rehabilitation - Functional Recovery in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Hospital and Health Care opportunity for an experienced physician providing rehabilitation care for children with physical disabilities, developmental delays, neurological disorders, neuromuscular disease, and musculoskeletal conditions. This hiring role requires expertise in pediatric rehabilitation assessment, functional goal setting, mobility management, multidisciplinary therapy coordination, family education, and evidence-based programs designed to improve independence, participation, and quality of life.

Job Details Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Industry: Hospital and Health Care Function: Physician Salary: 55000-75000 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 Rehabilitation physician will direct individualized rehabilitation programs for infants, children, and adolescents whose medical conditions affect movement, development, communication, self-care, or participation in everyday activities. Rather than focusing only on the underlying diagnosis, the role emphasizes what each child can achieve functionally through coordinated medical management, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, family participation, and carefully monitored rehabilitation goals. The consultant will provide clinical leadership across the multidisciplinary team while helping families establish practical strategies that continue beyond the healthcare setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide consultant-level assessment for children requiring rehabilitation services.
• Evaluate physical, developmental, neurological, and musculoskeletal conditions affecting function.
• Conduct comprehensive pediatric rehabilitation consultations.
• Review medical, developmental, neurological, surgical, therapy, and family histories.
• Assess developmental milestones.
• Evaluate gross motor development.
• Assess fine motor abilities.
• Review mobility and transfer skills.
• Evaluate balance and coordination.
• Assess muscle strength and endurance.
• Examine muscle tone.
• Evaluate joint range of motion.
• Assess posture and alignment.
• Identify contractures and limitations affecting movement.
• Evaluate gait abnormalities.
• Assess upper and lower limb function.
• Review self-care abilities.
• Evaluate independence in age-appropriate activities of daily living.
• Assess communication limitations that affect participation.
• Review feeding or swallowing concerns requiring specialist therapy input.
• Evaluate school-related functional challenges where relevant.
• Assess environmental barriers affecting independence.
• Identify rehabilitation priorities with the child and family.
• Evaluate children with cerebral palsy.
• Determine functional limitations associated with cerebral palsy.
• Monitor mobility and musculoskeletal complications.
• Assess tone-related functional impairment.
• Coordinate therapy strategies for children with cerebral palsy.
• Evaluate children with developmental delay.
• Assess children with global developmental difficulties.
• Identify areas requiring targeted therapeutic intervention.
• Monitor developmental progress over time.
• Coordinate appropriate specialist referrals where additional diagnostic assessment is required.
• Manage rehabilitation needs associated with neuromuscular disorders.
• Assess weakness, fatigue, mobility limitations, and loss of function.
• Monitor changing rehabilitation requirements as disease progresses.
• Coordinate physiotherapy and occupational therapy for neuromuscular conditions.
• Evaluate neurological disorders resulting in functional disability.
• Manage rehabilitation following neurological injury or illness within specialty scope.
• Assess motor impairment affecting independence.
• Coordinate rehabilitation for children with complex neurological needs.
• Evaluate musculoskeletal conditions requiring rehabilitation.
• Assess functional limitations following orthopedic treatment.
• Coordinate postoperative rehabilitation where appropriate.
• Work with Orthopedics when structural or surgical management is required.
• Identify secondary musculoskeletal complications related to chronic disability.
• Develop individualized rehabilitation plans.
• Establish realistic short-term treatment goals.
• Define measurable long-term functional objectives.
• Prioritize goals according to developmental stage and family needs.
• Focus treatment planning on meaningful daily activities.
• Incorporate mobility goals into rehabilitation programs.
• Establish self-care and independence objectives.
• Coordinate communication-related goals where required.
• Develop participation goals relevant to home, school, and community settings.
• Review progress against established rehabilitation targets.
• Modify goals as the child 's function changes.
• Adjust rehabilitation intensity according to clinical response.
• Avoid unnecessary interventions that do not contribute to meaningful functional outcomes.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary pediatric rehabilitation care.
• Lead rehabilitation case conferences.
• Establish shared goals across therapy disciplines.
• Coordinate physiotherapy programs.
• Work closely with physiotherapists on mobility and gross motor function.
• Review strengthening and conditioning programs.
• Coordinate balance and gait rehabilitation.
• Monitor response to physical therapy.
• Work with occupational therapists on upper limb function.
• Coordinate fine motor rehabilitation.
• Support development of age-appropriate self-care skills.
• Review adaptive strategies for dressing, feeding, writing, and other daily activities.
• Coordinate environmental modifications where clinically appropriate.
• Collaborate with speech therapists.
• Coordinate communication rehabilitation where required.
• Support speech and language goals relevant to functional participation.
• Coordinate feeding or swallowing therapy when appropriate.
• Ensure therapy disciplines work toward integrated functional objectives.
• Facilitate communication between medical and allied healthcare teams.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary reassessment.
• Review therapy reports.
• Translate therapy findings into medical and functional treatment decisions.
• Monitor overall rehabilitation effectiveness.
• Evaluate whether treatment goals remain clinically appropriate.
• Adjust therapy recommendations according to progress.
• Review frequency and intensity of rehabilitation services.
• Identify plateauing or deterioration in function.
• Investigate unexpected functional decline.
• Modify management plans when new limitations emerge.
• Coordinate additional medical assessment where deterioration suggests disease progression.
• Monitor growth-related changes that may affect mobility and function.
• Assess the impact of pain on rehabilitation.
• Identify fatigue that limits participation.
• Review sleep or behavioral factors affecting rehabilitation engagement where relevant.
• Coordinate specialist input for complex symptoms.
• Evaluate mobility requirements.
• Assess walking ability.
• Determine need for mobility assistance in collaboration with therapists.
• Review appropriate use of walkers or other mobility supports.
• Assess wheelchair-related functional needs with the rehabilitation team where required.
• Review seating and positioning requirements.
• Coordinate posture-management strategies.
• Evaluate need for adaptive equipment.
• Work with therapists on appropriate assistive devices.
• Review equipment effectiveness during follow-up.
• Adjust recommendations as the child grows.
• Coordinate orthotic assessment where appropriate.
• Review functional use of braces or splints in collaboration with the rehabilitation team.
• Monitor skin tolerance and functional benefit of prescribed supports.
• Assess barriers to equipment use at home or school.
• Promote safe mobility.
• Support prevention of falls and avoidable injury.
• Develop home-based rehabilitation programs with therapy teams.
• Provide families with practical strategies that complement formal therapy.
• Explain rehabilitation objectives clearly.
• Demonstrate the importance of consistent home participation.
• Educate parents and caregivers regarding positioning.
• Provide guidance on safe mobility and transfers.
• Reinforce therapist-prescribed home exercises.
• Explain appropriate activity levels.
• Encourage participation in age-appropriate activities.
• Help families incorporate rehabilitation into daily routines.
• Review adherence to home programs.
• Identify practical barriers affecting family participation.
• Adapt recommendations to the family 's circumstances where possible.
• Encourage realistic expectations regarding rehabilitation outcomes.
• Communicate progress sensitively and clearly.
• Discuss prognosis within the limits of the underlying diagnosis.
• Explain changes in functional status.
• Involve families in treatment decisions.
• Encourage shared goal setting.
• Respect family priorities while maintaining clinically appropriate rehabilitation objectives.
• Provide age-appropriate communication to children and adolescents.
• Promote dignity and independence.
• Support the child 's participation in decisions where developmentally appropriate.
• Provide culturally sensitive family-centered care.
• Coordinate with pediatricians where medical conditions influence rehabilitation.
• Collaborate with Pediatric Neurology for neurological disorders.
• Work with Orthopedics for musculoskeletal deformity or surgical needs.
• Coordinate with other pediatric specialties according to the child 's diagnosis.
• Collaborate with rehabilitation nursing where available.
• Work with dietitians when nutritional status affects growth or rehabilitation.
• Coordinate psychological support when disability or chronic illness affects adjustment.
• Collaborate with social support services where appropriate.
• Support continuity between inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation.
• Participate in discharge planning for hospitalized children requiring ongoing therapy.
• Establish post-discharge rehabilitation requirements.
• Ensure families understand follow-up arrangements.
• Coordinate transition to outpatient services.
• Monitor children following discharge.
• Review rehabilitation after surgery or hospitalization.
• Provide long-term follow-up for children with chronic disability.
• Adjust management as children grow and developmental expectations change.
• Review rehabilitation needs during major developmental transitions.
• Support preparation for increasing independence during adolescence.
• Maintain accurate electronic medical records.
• Document functional assessments comprehensively.
• Record rehabilitation diagnoses and priorities.
• Maintain clear multidisciplinary treatment plans.
• Document measurable rehabilitation goals.
• Record therapy recommendations.
• Document family counseling.
• Record equipment and mobility recommendations.
• Maintain accurate follow-up notes.
• Document changes in functional status.
• Ensure records comply with applicable UAE healthcare standards and institutional requirements.
• Protect patient confidentiality.
• Maintain appropriate consent and safeguarding standards.
• Promote patient safety throughout rehabilitation.
• Identify risks associated with mobility limitations.
• Support safe transfer and handling practices.
• Monitor for complications associated with reduced mobility.
• Encourage prevention of secondary disability.
• Participate in clinical governance.
• Contribute to pediatric rehabilitation quality improvement.
• Participate in clinical audits.
• Review rehabilitation outcomes.
• Monitor achievement of functional goals.
• Evaluate multidisciplinary treatment effectiveness.
• Contribute to patient and family experience initiatives.
• Support development of standardized rehabilitation pathways.
• Participate in service-development planning.
• Help improve coordination between medical and therapy services.
• Contribute to evidence-based pediatric rehabilitation protocols.
• Participate in multidisciplinary clinical meetings.
• Support efficient utilization of rehabilitation resources.
• Supervise junior physicians where assigned.
• Provide clinical guidance to rehabilitation team members.
• Mentor clinicians developing pediatric rehabilitation expertise.
• Participate in education of medical and allied healthcare staff.
• Teach principles of functional assessment.
• Support case-based learning.
• Participate in continuing medical education.
• Maintain current knowledge of pediatric rehabilitation medicine.
• Review developments in cerebral palsy rehabilitation.
• Stay updated on neuromuscular rehabilitation strategies.
• Maintain awareness of advances in mobility and assistive technologies.
• Review evolving evidence in multidisciplinary developmental rehabilitation.
• Promote evidence-based clinical practice throughout the service.

Ideal Profile

• Medical degree from a recognized institution.
• Consultant qualification in Pediatric Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatrics, Neurology, Orthopedics, or another recognized pathway supported by substantial pediatric rehabilitation experience.
• Appropriate DHA or UAE Consultant licensing eligibility.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant clinical experience.
• Strong experience managing pediatric rehabilitation cases.
• Experience assessing children with cerebral palsy.
• Strong knowledge of developmental delay and associated functional limitations.
• Experience managing children with neuromuscular disorders.
• Familiarity with neurological disability affecting childhood development.
• Experience with pediatric musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
• Strong functional assessment skills.
• Ability to evaluate mobility and gait.
• Understanding of muscle tone and its impact on function.
• Knowledge of joint mobility and contracture prevention.
• Strong rehabilitation goal-setting skills.
• Experience developing individualized treatment programs.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary rehabilitation.
• Strong experience working with physiotherapists.
• Effective collaboration with occupational therapists.
• Experience coordinating speech therapy.
• Knowledge of home-based rehabilitation strategies.
• Experience educating parents and caregivers.
• Ability to translate clinical findings into practical functional goals.
• Strong understanding of child development.
• Experience monitoring rehabilitation outcomes.
• Ability to modify treatment according to functional progress.
• Familiarity with assistive mobility solutions.
• Understanding of seating and positioning principles.
• Knowledge of adaptive equipment and orthotic support is advantageous.
• Strong multidisciplinary leadership.
• Excellent clinical judgment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with children and families.
• Patient and compassionate approach to chronic disability.
• Ability to manage long-term rehabilitation relationships.
• Strong family-centered care skills.
• Experience with electronic medical records.
• High standards of clinical documentation.
• Knowledge of UAE healthcare standards.
• Quality-improvement experience is advantageous.
• Clinical audit participation is desirable.
• Teaching or mentoring experience is beneficial.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Arabic language ability is advantageous.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural healthcare environment.
• Commitment to evidence-based rehabilitation, patient safety, functional independence, multidisciplinary collaboration, and continuous professional development.

Skills Set

• Pediatric rehabilitation
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Pediatric functional assessment
• Cerebral palsy rehabilitation
• Developmental delay
• Developmental rehabilitation
• Neurological rehabilitation
• Neuromuscular rehabilitation
• Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
• Pediatric mobility assessment
• Gait assessment
• Gross motor function
• Fine motor function
• Muscle tone assessment
• Muscle strength assessment
• Range of motion assessment
• Contracture prevention
• Posture assessment
• Functional goal setting
• Individualized rehabilitation planning
• Functional independence
• Activities of daily living
• Mobility rehabilitation
• Pediatric physiotherapy coordination
• Occupational therapy coordination
• Speech therapy coordination
• Multidisciplinary rehabilitation
• Home rehabilitation programs
• Family education
• Caregiver training
• Assistive devices
• Mobility aids
• Wheelchair assessment coordination
• Seating and positioning
• Orthotic management coordination
• Adaptive equipment
• Pediatric neurological disorders
• Pediatric neuromuscular disorders
• Pediatric musculoskeletal conditions
• Rehabilitation after orthopedic treatment
• Long-term disability management
• Functional outcome monitoring
• Rehabilitation progress assessment
• Rehabilitation care pathways
• Family-centered care
• Shared goal setting
• Patient counseling
• Pediatric multidisciplinary care
• Pediatric Neurology collaboration
• Orthopedics collaboration
• Rehabilitation therapy leadership
• Inpatient rehabilitation
• Outpatient rehabilitation
• Discharge rehabilitation planning
• Electronic medical records
• Clinical documentation
• Patient safety
• Clinical governance
• Quality improvement
• Clinical audit
• Rehabilitation service development
• Clinical leadership
• Medical education
• Team mentoring
• Continuing medical education

Why Join Us

Pediatric rehabilitation is a specialized area of Hospital and Health Care where coordinated medical and therapy services can have a lasting impact on a child 's mobility, independence, development, and participation in family and community life. This opportunity provides multidisciplinary clinical practice, modern rehabilitation resources, complex pediatric case exposure, professional development, and the chance to lead individualized programs focused on meaningful functional outcomes rather than isolated symptoms.

About the Company

Allocation Assist Middle East connects experienced physicians with consultant and specialist opportunities across hospitals and advanced healthcare organizations throughout the UAE and wider Middle East. Its recruitment portfolio includes pediatric rehabilitation, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, pediatric neurology, orthopedics, developmental care, and related specialties requiring physicians capable of coordinating medical and therapy services around each child 's functional and developmental needs.