Specialist Critical Care

Role Overview

Astra ProMed seeks an experienced Specialist Critical Care Physician to join a leading healthcare facility in Abu Dhabi on a full-time basis. The role focuses on providing expert management of critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit with a commitment to clinical excellence, patient safety, and multidisciplinary care.

Role Purpose

To provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of critically ill patients requiring intensive care, including advanced life-support interventions, invasive procedures, and complex multidisciplinary coordination to ensure optimal patient outcomes and safety.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Assessment and Management

• 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.
• Evaluate and manage patients with complex medical, surgical, neurological, and post-operative critical care needs.
• Develop individualized treatment plans based on clinical assessment, laboratory investigations, imaging, and continuous patient monitoring.

Airway and Respiratory Support

• 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 sedation, analgesia, nutritional support, infection prevention, and ventilator-weaning strategies.

Hemodynamic Management

• Manage hemodynamically unstable patients requiring vasopressor support, fluid resuscitation, and continuous monitoring.
• Coordinate advanced organ-support therapies, including continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), where available and within the authorized scope of practice.

Emergency and Acute Interventions

• Participate in emergency resuscitation, rapid response interventions, and critical care consultations.
• Identify and manage ICU complications, including hospital-acquired infections, delirium, and organ dysfunction.

Care Coordination and Discharge Planning

• 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.

Documentation and Compliance

• 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• MBBS/MD or equivalent medical degree.
• Recognized postgraduate qualification in Critical Care Medicine or 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.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent clinical judgment and patient-management skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Proficiency in mechanical ventilation and advanced airway management.
• Expertise in hemodynamic monitoring and invasive ICU procedures.

Additional Information

• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Competitive salary and attractive benefits package.
• Medical insurance coverage.
• Annual paid leave and other benefits as per UAE Labour Law and facility policy.
• Professional development and CME opportunities.
• Access to modern, well-equipped intensive care facilities.
• Collaborative multidisciplinary healthcare environment.
• Licensing assistance available for eligible candidates.