Consultant Physician

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Consultant Physician - Infectious Diseases

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Hospital and Health Care

Function: Physician

Experience: Minimum 5 years consultant-level experience

Job Type: Full-time

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates

City: Dubai

Industry: Hospital and Health Care

Function: Physician

Salary: 80000-110000

Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any

Candidate Nationality: Any

Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Consultant Physician - Infectious Diseases will lead specialist care for patients with complex, communicable, hospital-acquired, and emerging infectious diseases. This role is important for reducing infection-related complications, improving antimicrobial use, strengthening hospital infection prevention systems, and supporting safe care for immunocompromised and critically ill patients. Working with intensive care, internal medicine, microbiology, public health, nursing, pharmacy, and hospital governance teams, the consultant will help maintain high clinical standards in a multicultural healthcare environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Diagnose and manage a wide range of infectious diseases across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Lead clinical care for complex infections, including sepsis, HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, hospital-acquired infections, healthcare-associated infections, and emerging infectious diseases.
• Provide expert consultation for immunocompromised patients, critically ill patients, and cases requiring complex antimicrobial decision‑making.
• Develop, implement, and support antimicrobial stewardship programs to improve antibiotic use, reduce resistance risk, and promote safe prescribing.
• Contribute to infection control policies, isolation protocols, surveillance activities, and hospital‑wide infection prevention initiatives.
• Collaborate with intensive care, internal medicine, microbiology, emergency medicine, public health, pharmacy, nursing, and multidisciplinary clinical teams.
• Participate in outbreak investigation, containment planning, contact tracing support, infection surveillance, and reporting processes where required.
• Oversee infection control compliance and support safe clinical practice across wards, ICU, procedure areas, and outpatient services.
• Review culture results, antimicrobial sensitivity reports, laboratory findings, imaging results, and clinical progress to guide targeted therapy.
• Educate and train medical staff on infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, isolation precautions, and emerging disease preparedness.
• Stay updated with infectious disease trends, treatment guidelines, public health alerts, and current research.
• Contribute to clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, morbidity reviews, governance activities, and hospital policy development.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation, consultation notes, antimicrobial recommendations, infection control records, and follow‑up plans.
• Support MOHAP licensing and UAE regulatory expectations where applicable for Sharjah‑based clinical service.

Ideal Profile

• Medical degree such as MBBS, MD, or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Board certification in Infectious Diseases is mandatory.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Consultant Infectious Disease specialist.
• Strong expertise in managing complex infectious diseases, communicable diseases, hospital‑acquired infections, and immunocompromised patient cases.
• Proven experience in infection control, antimicrobial stewardship programs, outbreak response, and hospital surveillance activities.
• Ability to provide specialist consultation for ICU, internal medicine, surgical, and high‑risk patient groups.
• Strong clinical judgement with confident decision‑making in complex and time‑sensitive infection cases.
• Experience working in a multicultural healthcare environment is highly valuable.
• Excellent communication, leadership, documentation, teaching, and multidisciplinary teamwork skills.
• Eligibility for UAE medical licensing is required, with MOHAP eligibility preferred for Sharjah‑based clinical service.
• Commitment to patient safety, clinical governance, infection prevention, ethical practice, and continuous professional development.

Skills Set

• Infectious diseases
• Infection control
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Hospital-acquired infection management
• Healthcare-associated infection care
• Sepsis management
• HIV care
• Tuberculosis management
• Viral hepatitis care
• Emerging infectious diseases