Head of Department - Emergency Medicine

NMC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

NMC in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced Head of Department – Emergency Medicine to lead our Emergency Medicine team and ensure safe, high-quality, patient-centred care. You will drive governance, staffing, and operational performance across all shifts.

The ideal candidate is board-certified in Emergency Medicine with leadership experience and strong communication, decision-making, and patient-safety focus. You will collaborate with hospital leadership to advance standards and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Board-certified/recognised Consultant in Emergency Medicine with leadership experience.
• Strong clinical governance, people management, and operational leadership skills.
• Excellent communication, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated commitment to patient safety, quality improvement, and excellent patient experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, clinical, and operational leadership for the Emergency Medicine Department.
• Lead and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary clinical team.
• Oversee emergency patient assessment, stabilisation, treatment, and appropriate disposition.
• Ensure efficient patient flow, departmental staffing, and operational coverage across all shifts.
• Drive clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.
• Monitor departmental KPIs, clinical outcomes, patient experience, and service performance.
• Ensure compliance with DOH, JCI, ISO, infection control, patient safety, and organisational standards.
• Manage clinical incidents, complaints, risks, audits, and corrective actions effectively.
• Support recruitment, credentialing, performance management, training, and professional development of departmental staff.
• Collaborate with hospital leadership and other departments to enhance patient care and service delivery.
• Represent the department in clinical, operational, and hospital management meetings.
• Lead emergency preparedness and support disaster and mass-casualty response planning.
• Perform Consultant-level clinical duties in accordance with approved privileges and scope of practice.
• Carry out other responsibilities as assigned by senior management.

Skills

Leadership

Emergency medicine

Communication

Decision making

Education

Board-certified/recognised Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Head of Department – Emergency Medicine to lead our Emergency Medicine team and oversee the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred emergency care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic, clinical, and operational leadership for the Emergency Medicine Department.
• Lead and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary clinical team.
• Oversee emergency patient assessment, stabilisation, treatment, and appropriate disposition.
• Ensure efficient patient flow, departmental staffing, and operational coverage across all shifts.
• Drive clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.
• Monitor departmental KPIs, clinical outcomes, patient experience, and service performance.
• Ensure compliance with DOH, JCI, ISO, infection control, patient safety, and organisational standards.
• Manage clinical incidents, complaints, risks, audits, and corrective actions effectively.
• Support recruitment, credentialing, performance management, training, and professional development of departmental staff.
• Collaborate with hospital leadership and other departments to enhance patient care and service delivery.
• Represent the department in clinical, operational, and hospital management meetings.
• Lead emergency preparedness and support disaster and mass-casualty response planning.
• Perform Consultant-level clinical duties in accordance with approved privileges and scope of practice.
• Carry out other responsibilities as assigned by senior management.

Ideal Candidate:

• Board-certified/recognised Consultant in Emergency Medicine with relevant leadership experience.
• Strong clinical governance, people management, and operational leadership skills.
• Excellent communication, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated commitment to patient safety, quality improvement, and excellent patient experience.