Consultant Palliative Care Physician

Role: Consultant Palliative Care Physician - Supportive Care

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Hospital and Health Care

Function: Physician

Experience: Minimum 5 years post-board or fellowship consultant experience

Job Type: Full-time

Consultant Palliative Care Physician - Supportive Care in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Hospital and Health Care opportunity for an experienced physician specializing in symptom control, pain management, supportive oncology care, and end-of-life medicine. This hiring role requires strong clinical judgment, compassionate communication, multidisciplinary coordination, and expertise in helping patients with advanced or life-limiting illnesses maintain comfort, dignity, and the best possible quality of life.

Country: United Arab Emirates

City: Dubai

Industry: Hospital and Health Care

Function: Physician

Salary: 60000-80000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any

Candidate Nationality: Any

The Consultant Palliative Care Physician will provide specialist medical support for patients experiencing advanced cancer, progressive chronic disease, complex symptoms, or end-of-life needs. The role brings together expert symptom management, psychosocial support, shared decision-making, advance care planning, and continuity across different care settings. By helping patients and families understand treatment goals and manage difficult symptoms, the consultant will support better quality of life, appropriate care decisions, and coordinated transitions throughout the course of serious illness.

• Assess patients with advanced, progressive, chronic, or life-limiting illnesses who require specialist palliative care.
• Conduct comprehensive evaluations covering physical symptoms, psychological concerns, functional status, social circumstances, and care priorities.
• Develop individualized palliative treatment plans based on disease stage, symptom burden, prognosis, and patient preferences.
• Provide expert management of cancer-related and non-cancer pain.
• Optimize analgesic therapy according to symptom severity, comorbidities, treatment response, and adverse effects.
• Manage complex symptoms including breathlessness, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, constipation, delirium, anxiety, and sleep disturbance.
• Address symptoms associated with advanced neurological, cardiac, respiratory, renal, and other chronic diseases.
• Review medication regimens and reduce unnecessary or burdensome treatment where clinically appropriate.
• Provide consultation for patients experiencing difficult-to-control symptoms despite standard treatment.
• Support patients receiving active oncology treatment who require concurrent palliative and supportive care.
• Coordinate symptom management during advanced cancer treatment and disease progression.
• Conduct regular reassessment to evaluate symptom control and modify treatment accordingly.
• Facilitate discussions regarding goals of care with patients and families.
• Lead sensitive conversations concerning prognosis, treatment limitations, and changing priorities.
• Support advance care planning according to applicable legal, ethical, and institutional requirements.
• Participate in end-of-life decision-making and ensure treatment remains aligned with patient wishes and clinical appropriateness.
• Conduct structured family meetings for complex medical and psychosocial situations.
• Provide emotional support and clear medical guidance to relatives and caregivers.
• Help families understand expected changes during advanced illness and end-of-life care.
• Coordinate with oncologists for patients requiring integrated cancer and palliative treatment.
• Work with internal medicine physicians managing advanced chronic diseases.
• Collaborate with intensivists when patients in critical care require goals-of-care review or symptom-focused treatment.
• Partner with nursing teams to maintain consistent symptom assessment and bedside care.
• Coordinate psychological support with clinical psychologists and mental health professionals.
• Work with social workers to address practical, family, financial, and social concerns affecting care.
• Collaborate with physiotherapy and rehabilitation services to preserve function and comfort where possible.
• Ensure continuity between inpatient, outpatient, home-based, and hospice care when these services are available.
• Support safe discharge planning for patients requiring continuing palliative management outside hospital.
• Coordinate transitions between acute treatment and comfor