Consultant Pediatric Surgeon - Advanced Child Surgery

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

Job summary

Allocation Assist Middle East seeks a Consultant Pediatric Surgeon - Advanced Child Surgery in Dubai to lead complex operative and perioperative care for neonates, infants, children and adolescents in a tertiary hospital setting.

The role requires advanced pediatric surgical expertise, strong leadership, and on-call capability with acommitment to clinical quality, education, research, and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Medical degree with specialization in pediatric surgery.
• Board certification or eligibility in pediatric surgery.
• Minimum 7 years post-specialization experience.
• Tertiary-care and multidisciplinary leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant-level pediatric surgical care across neonatal to adolescent patients.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams for complex pediatric surgical cases.
• Coordinate emergency and on-call pediatric surgical coverage.
• Oversee preoperative assessment and postoperative care plans.
• Engage in teaching, audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with neonatology, anesthesia, radiology, and pathology teams.

Skills

Pediatric surgery

Neonatal surgery

Leadership

Emergency surgery

Education

Medical degree

Board Certification in Pediatric Surgery

Pediatric Surgery fellowship

UAE licensing eligibility

Job description

Consultant Pediatric Surgeon - Advanced Child Surgery

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Hospital and Health Care

Function: Physician

Experience: Minimum 7 years post-specialization experience

Job Type: Full-time

Job Snapshot

Role: Consultant Pediatric Surgeon - Advanced Child Surgery

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Hospital and Health Care

Function: Physician

Experience: Minimum 7 years post-specialization experience

Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Consultant Pediatric Surgeon - Advanced Child Surgery in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Hospital and Health Care opportunity for an experienced surgeon providing complex operative and perioperative care to neonates, infants, children, and adolescents. This hiring role requires advanced pediatric surgical expertise, strong multidisciplinary leadership, emergency and on‑call capability, tertiary‑care experience, and a commitment to clinical quality, education, research, and patient safety.

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

Role Context

The Consultant Pediatric Surgeon will lead the surgical assessment, treatment, and follow‑up of children with congenital, acquired, acute, and complex surgical conditions. The role spans neonatal and pediatric surgery, emergency intervention, inpatient care, postoperative management, multidisciplinary planning, and clinical leadership. The consultant will also support service quality through teaching, audit, research, protocol development, and close collaboration with pediatric medical and surgical specialties.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide consultant‑level surgical care to neonatal, infant, pediatric, and adolescent patients.
• Assess children referred with suspected surgical conditions.
• Obtain comprehensive medical, developmental, and surgical histories.
• Perform age‑appropriate pediatric surgical examinations.
• Establish differential diagnoses for acute and chronic surgical presentations.
• Develop individualized investigation and treatment plans.
• Determine whether conservative, minimally invasive, or operative management is most appropriate.
• Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures within approved pediatric surgery privileges.
• Undertake elective pediatric surgical procedures according to clinical need.
• Provide emergency surgical intervention when required.
• Assess neonates with congenital surgical abnormalities.
• Coordinate early stabilization and surgical planning for neonatal cases.
• Work closely with neonatology teams on critically ill newborns requiring surgical input.
• Evaluate infants and children with acute abdominal presentations.
• Manage common and complex pediatric gastrointestinal surgical conditions.
• Assess bowel obstruction and other urgent intra‑abdominal pathology.
• Diagnose and manage appropriate congenital gastrointestinal abnormalities.
• Evaluate abdominal masses and coordinate further diagnostic investigation.
• Manage appropriate pediatric soft tissue and abdominal wall conditions.
• Assess children with hernias and other conditions requiring operative repair.
• Provide surgical assessment for pediatric trauma when required.
• Participate in stabilization and management of injured children.
• Coordinate with emergency medicine and critical care teams for high‑acuity surgical cases.
• Provide timely operative intervention for life‑threatening surgical conditions.
• Perform thorough preoperative assessment.
• Review laboratory results, imaging, comorbidities, medications, and anesthetic risk.
• Coordinate surgical planning with pediatric anesthesiology.
• Counsel parents and caregivers regarding diagnosis and surgical options.
• Explain procedural risks, expected outcomes, recovery, and alternative management approaches.
• Obtain informed consent in accordance with UAE healthcare requirements.
• Apply recognized surgical safety standards.
• Conduct operations with particular attention to age, size, developmental stage, and pediatric physiology.
• Monitor patients closely following surgical procedures.
• Manage postoperative pain in coordination with appropriate clinical teams.
• Assess wound healing and postoperative recovery.
• Identify and treat surgical complications promptly.
• Coordinate escalation to pediatric intensive care when necessary.
• Provide ongoing postoperative follow‑up.
• Conduct daily ward rounds for admitted pediatric surgical patients.
• Review clinical progress and investigation results.
• Modify treatment plans according to patient response.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary care plans for complex cases.
• Ensure appropriate nutrition and fluid management in collaboration with relevant teams.
• Determine readiness for discharge following surgical treatment.
• Develop clear discharge and follow‑up plans.
• Educate families regarding wound care, medications, activity restrictions, and warning signs.
• Provide outpatient pediatric surgery consultations.
• Review postoperative patients in follow‑up clinics.
• Provide second opinions for complex pediatric surgical cases.
• Participate in multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Collaborate with pediatricians on patients with significant medical comorbidities.
• Work with neonatologists on congenital and neonatal surgical conditions.
• Coordinate with pediatric intensivists for critically ill surgical patients.
• Collaborate with pediatric gastroenterology when digestive disease has a surgical component.
• Work with pediatric urology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, and other surgical specialties when required.
• Coordinate with radiology for diagnostic imaging.
• Review ultrasound, CT, MRI, and other relevant studies in surgical context.
• Collaborate with interventional radiology where non‑operative procedural management may be appropriate.
• Work with pathology on tissue diagnosis and surgical specimens.
• Coordinate with oncology teams when pediatric tumors require surgical management.
• Participate in tumor boards where appropriate.
• Work with rehabilitation teams following major surgery or trauma.
• Maintain clear communication with referring physicians.
• Provide on‑call pediatric surgical coverage according to departmental schedule.
• Respond promptly to emergency consultations.
• Attend urgent operative cases outside routine hours when required.
• Participate in emergency preparedness relevant to pediatric surgical services.
• Support safe escalation during major clinical incidents.
• Supervise junior physicians and surgical trainees.
• Review cases managed by residents and junior medical staff.
• Provide bedside teaching and operative instruction.
• Mentor trainees in pediatric surgical assessment and decision‑making.
• Participate in trainee evaluation where assigned.
• Support development of procedural competence among junior clinicians.
• Contribute to departmental teaching sessions.
• Participate in continuing medical education programs.
• Engage in clinical research and academic activities.
• Contribute to scientific publications where appropriate.
• Present clinical findings or research at professional meetings when opportunities are available.
• Maintain current knowledge of advances in pediatric and neonatal surgery.
• Participate in departmental clinical meetings.
• Contribute to quality improvement initiatives.
• Participate in clinical audits of surgical outcomes.
• Review postoperative complications and unplanned readmissions.
• Participate in morbidity and mortality meetings.
• Support development and review of evidence‑based pediatric surgery protocols.
• Contribute to patient safety initiatives.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation.
• Prepare detailed operative notes.
• Record assessment findings, diagnoses, procedures, complications, and follow‑up plans.
• Maintain electronic medical records according to institutional requirements.
• Ensure documentation complies with applicable UAE regulations and hospital standards.
• Protect patient confidentiality and privacy.
• Uphold patient and family rights throughout care.
• Follow infection prevention and sterile surgical practices.
• Maintain high standards of professional ethics and clinical governance.

Ideal Profile

• Medical degree from a recognised institution.
• Completion of accredited residency training in Pediatric Surgery.
• Fellowship or equivalent advanced training in Pediatric Surgery.
• Board Certification in Pediatric Surgery, such as American Board, Royal College, or equivalent recognised qualification.
• Appropriate UAE Consultant license, eligibility, or ability to obtain the required professional license.
• Minimum 7 years of post‑specialization experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in a tertiary‑care centre.
• Broad experience in neonatal, infant, child, and adolescent surgery.
• Strong competence in elective pediatric surgical procedures.
• Proven ability to manage pediatric surgical emergencies.
• Experience with neonatal surgical conditions.
• Strong understanding of pediatric perioperative care.
• Experience conducting daily inpatient rounds and managing postoperative recovery.
• Ability to recognise and manage surgical complications.
• Experience working with pediatric intensive care teams.
• Strong multidisciplinary collaboration skills.
• Ability to coordinate complex cases across several pediatric specialties.
• Experience supervising residents and junior physicians.
• Strong leadership and clinical decision‑making skills.
• Excellent communication with children, parents, and caregivers.
• Ability to explain complex surgical information clearly and sensitively.
• Experience participating in clinical audit and quality improvement.
• Research experience is advantageous.
• Publication experience is desirable.
• Previous involvement in medical education is preferred.
• Strong clinical documentation standards.
• Commitment to patient confidentiality, ethical practice, safety, and evidence‑based pediatric surgery.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural tertiary‑care environment.

Skills Set

• Pediatric surgery
• Neonatal surgery
• Child surgery
• Adolescent surgery
• Pediatric surgical assessment
• Pediatric surgical diagnosis
• Elective pediatric surgery
• Emergency pediatric surgery
• Neonatal surgical care
• Congenital surgical conditions
• Pediatric abdominal surgery
• Pediatric gastrointestinal surgery
• Bowel obstruction management
• Abdominal wall surgery
• Hernia repair
• Pediatric soft tissue surgery
• Pediatric trauma
• Emergency surgical stabilization
• Preoperative assessment
• Pediatric perioperative care
• Pediatric anesthesia coordination
• Operative planning
• Surgical consent
• Postoperative management
• Pediatric pain management
• Surgical complication management
• Wound care
• Inpatient pediatric surgery
• Outpatient pediatric surgery
• Daily ward rounds
• Discharge planning
• Family counseling
• Caregiver education
• Pediatric intensive care collaboration
• Neonatology collaboration
• Pediatric gastroenterology collaboration
• Pediatric oncology collaboration
• Radiology collaboration
• Interventional radiology collaboration
• Pathology coordination
• Multidisciplinary case management
• On‑call surgical care
• Emergency response
• Clinical documentation
• Operative documentation
• Electronic medical records
• Infection prevention
• Surgical safety
• Patient confidentiality
• Patient rights
• Clinical governance
• Quality improvement
• Clinical audit
• Morbidity and mortality review
• Resident supervision
• Surgical teaching
• Clinical research
• Scientific publication
• Continuing medical education

Why Join Us

Pediatric surgery is a highly specialized area of Hospital and Health Care that requires experienced consultants capable of managing congenital abnormalities, neonatal surgical disease, emergency presentations, complex operative care, and multidisciplinary treatment. This opportunity combines a broad surgical caseload with clinical leadership, tertiary‑care collaboration, teaching, research, quality improvement, and continued development in advanced pediatric surgical practice.

About the Company

Allocation Assist Middle East connects experienced physicians and surgeons with consultant and specialist opportunities across hospitals and advanced healthcare organizations throughout the UAE and wider Middle East. Its recruitment portfolio includes pediatric surgery, neonatal care, pediatric critical care, pediatric subspecialties, and other complex surgical services requiring senior clinicians with strong operative, multidisciplinary, and leadership expertise.