Specialist Emergency Medicine - PL

NMC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 620,000; Full time

Job summary

NMC in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced physician to deliver high-quality emergency care, maintain patient safety, and uphold governance and quality standards. You will oversee urgent cases, coordinate with ER staff, and ensure continuous professional development while maintaining complete medical records.

Responsibilities include rapid assessment, treatment, team leadership, and timely referrals to specialists, with emphasis on patient stabilization and compliant discharge planning.

Qualifications

• Active medical practice in emergency care with CPD eligibility.
• Specialty qualification recognised by UAE healthcare authority.
• Certification in life support (e.g. BLS/ACLS/PALS/ATLS/NRP).

Responsibilities

• Maintain active privileges aligned with scope of services and renew every 2 years.
• Assess emergency patients immediately and oversee recovery.
• Develop care plans and refer to specialists as needed.
• Ensure patient stability before transfer and coordinate with ER staff.
• Stabilize patients and provide discharge instructions and paperwork.
• Lead and direct the emergency team during critical events.

Skills

Emergency care

Clinical leadership

Patient assessment

Team coordination

Infection control

Education

Basic medical degree

Specialty qualification

Fellowship/Diploma

Certification/registration

Job description

The role involves delivering professional, ethical, and high-quality clinical care, managing clinical risks, ensuring compliance with governance standards, and maintaining accurate medical records. It also emphasizes continuous professional development and maintaining integrity in providing ethical, responsible clinical services.

Specific Responsibilities for this Role

• Physician will maintain an active Privileges as per the specialty that is consistent with the scope of services and the required experiences to practice it, which is renewable every 2 years.

• Assess patients that enters the emergency room immediately and oversee emergency patients' recovery

• Assesses a patient's condition to determine the severity of the problem.

• Physicians speak with patients to elicit their medical history and learn the details of a patient's ailments.

• Develop effective patient care plans.

• Refers patients to the appropriate specialist.

• Ensure that the patient is stable before transferring them to the proper department for further evaluation.

• Coordinate with different ER department staffs to ensure patients receive the necessary treatment.

• Carry out immediate evaluation and management of emergency patients that are brought in for treatment.

• Work simultaneously with staff from the emergency department and compliant facility
• Respond to all forms of cardiac/cardiopulmonary arrest with immediate effect
• Provide instructions for discharge and complete necessary paperwork for patients
• Appropriately make use of other available personnel whether professional or not so as to be able to immediately stabilize the patient in a situation where there are multiple emergency cases

• They perform physical examinations to diagnose and treat patients.

• Refer patients to a specialist, such as a surgeon, as necessary.

• Often works as part of a team of specialists, nurses, nursing assistants and aides who each perform a defined role when a patient comes to the emergency room.

• Often leads the team and provides instructions and direction to other team members regarding the specific actions to take with a patient.

• Taking whatever steps are necessary to stabilize the patient for transport to another area of the hospital or transport to another hospital.

• Responsible must evaluate a wide variety of ailments, sometimes with little to no information

• Keep patients informed about their conditions and treatment. They also speak with a patient's family to update them on a patient's diagnosis and prognosis.

• Refer patients to another doctor for ongoing care once they've completed their diagnosis and administered initial treatment

• Analyze the medical history and records of the patients and plan the best procedure for treatment, taking in to account the allergies and medical condition of the patient.

• Prescribes or administers medication, therapy, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.

• Interacts with patient to gather additional history and information about medical condition

• Explains procedures and discusses test results or prescribed treatments with patient

• Provides specific treatments and/or performs operations to treat patient medical conditions

• Responsible to carry out necessary duties to ensure the best and most cost-effective treatment of patients.

• To contribute to the development of Clinical Quality Standards.

• Participate in the in-service education programme and comply with mandatory training requirements, inclusive of CPR, Health & Safety Training and Fire Safety.

• To ensure ongoing medical competence by participating in the annual relicensing and recertification schemes in United Arab Emirates.

• To maintain and develop professional expertise through self-directed learning and continuous professional development.

Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems

• Comply with reasonable OSH instructions, policies and safe working procedures
• Use of appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems.
• Be familiar with emergency and evacuation procedures
• Not willfully or recklessly endanger anyone's health and safety
• Assist with the preparation of risk assessments
• Report OSH Hazards, incidents, Near misses and issues
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycling of waste as much as possible
• Attend all OSH Trainings, awareness programs and mock drills.
• Participates in the OSHMS audits, inspections, ensuring standards are maintained

Prevention and Control of Infection (PCI):

• PCI is everyone’s responsibility. All staff are required to read and implement the NMC PCI Policy and Strategy in an effort to maintain the highest possible standards of cleanliness at all times, thus reducing the risk of infection in patients, staff and visitors.
• The strictest hand hygiene, 5 moments of hand hygiene, bare below the elbows and environmental care, will be expected of all staff, including the post holder, at all times

Qualifications

• At least 3 - 5 years’ post qualification experience at Specialist level (independent of country)

• At least 1 year Specialist level experience from a Tier 1 country as specified by the UAE healthcare regulator.

• Basic medical degree and completion of a specialty qualification/education programme (fellowship/diploma) recognised by the relevant UAE healthcare authority.

• Certification and registration in a speciality recognised by relevant UAE healthcare authority. Active and valid life support certification (e.g. BLS, ACLS, PALS, ATLS, NRP)

• Eligibility for relevant healthcare authority registration e.g. Membership from Royal College / Arab Board Certification / MS / DM / MPhil or an equivalent recognised by relevant healthcare authority in UAE