We're Hiring | Specialist Critical Care
📍 Location: Abu Dhabi
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
We are looking for an experienced Specialist Critical Care Physician to join a leading healthcare facility in Sharjah. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in managing critically ill patients, advanced life-support interventions, and intensive care procedures, with a commitment to clinical excellence, patient safety, and multidisciplinary care.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
- Manage patients with sepsis, septic shock, acute respiratory failure, ARDS, multi-organ dysfunction, and other life-threatening conditions.
- Provide advanced airway management, invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, and respiratory support.
- Perform critical care procedures, including endotracheal intubation, central venous catheterization, arterial line placement, and other invasive interventions, where appropriately trained and authorized.
- Manage hemodynamically unstable patients requiring vasopressor support, fluid resuscitation, and continuous monitoring.
- Evaluate and manage patients with complex medical, surgical, neurological, and post-operative critical care needs.
- Participate in emergency resuscitation, rapid response interventions, and critical care consultations.
- Develop individualized treatment plans based on clinical assessment, laboratory investigations, imaging, and continuous patient monitoring.
- Manage sedation, analgesia, nutritional support, infection prevention, and ventilator-weaning strategies.
- Coordinate advanced organ-support therapies, including continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), where available and within the authorized scope of practice.
- Identify and manage ICU complications, including hospital-acquired infections, delirium, and organ dysfunction.
- Coordinate ICU admission, patient stabilization, transfer, discharge planning, and continuity of care.
- Collaborate with anesthesiologists, pulmonologists, cardiologists, surgeons, nephrologists, neurologists, and other multidisciplinary specialists.
- Work closely with ICU nurses, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive patient care.
- Communicate effectively with patients' families regarding clinical conditions, treatment plans, prognosis, and critical care decisions.
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and ensure compliance with ICU protocols, infection control, clinical governance, and patient-safety standards.
- Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, teaching, research, and CME activities.
Requirements
Qualifications
- MBBS/MD or equivalent medical degree.
- Recognized postgraduate qualification in Critical Care Medicine / Intensive Care Medicine, or a recognized primary specialty with appropriate subspecialty training in Critical Care.
- Board certification or equivalent recognized specialist qualification.
- Minimum 3–5 years of relevant post-specialization experience, with substantial clinical exposure to intensive care medicine.
- Strong clinical experience in managing critically ill patients with complex medical and surgical conditions.
- Demonstrated competence in mechanical ventilation, advanced airway management, hemodynamic monitoring, and invasive ICU procedures.
- Experience managing high-acuity ICU patients and responding to critical care emergencies.
- Eligible for MOHAP Specialist classification/license in Sharjah, subject to applicable qualification and experience requirements.
- Excellent clinical judgment, communication, teamwork, and patient-management skills.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and attractive benefits package.
- Medical insurance.
- Annual paid leave and other benefits as per UAE Labour Law and facility policy.
- Professional development and CME opportunities.
- Modern, well-equipped intensive care facilities.
- Collaborative multidisciplinary healthcare environment.
- Licensing assistance available for eligible candidates.
