# Consultant Critical Care

> Astra ProMed · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-09

**Salary:** unknown currency 780,000–1,140,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

**We're Hiring |** Consultant Critical care

📍 Location: Dubai

💼 Employment Type: Full-Time

We are looking for an experienced **Consultant Critical Care Physician** to join a leading healthcare facility in Dubai. The ideal candidate will have advanced expertise in managing critically ill patients, intensive care procedures, and complex life-threatening conditions, with a strong 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 **multi-organ failure, sepsis, septic shock, respiratory failure, and other life-threatening conditions**.
-   Provide advanced airway management, mechanical ventilation, and respiratory support.
-   Perform and supervise critical care procedures, including **endotracheal intubation, central venous catheterization, arterial line placement, and other invasive interventions**.
-   Manage patients requiring hemodynamic monitoring, vasopressor support, and advanced cardiovascular management.
-   Diagnose and manage acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), severe infections, and complex metabolic disorders.
-   Provide comprehensive care for post-operative, trauma, neurological, and medically complex ICU patients.
-   Lead and coordinate **resuscitation, emergency stabilization, and rapid response interventions**.
-   Develop individualized treatment plans based on clinical assessment, laboratory investigations, imaging, and continuous patient monitoring.
-   Oversee sedation, analgesia, nutritional support, and infection prevention strategies in critically ill patients.
-   Evaluate patients for renal replacement therapy and coordinate specialized organ-support treatments when required.
-   Supervise ICU physicians, residents, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
-   Collaborate with anesthesiologists, pulmonologists, cardiologists, surgeons, nephrologists, neurologists, and other multidisciplinary specialists.
-   Communicate effectively with patients' families regarding clinical conditions, treatment plans, prognosis, and critical care decisions.
-   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 accredited subspecialty training in Critical Care.
-   Board certification or equivalent recognized consultant qualification.
-   Fellowship or advanced subspecialty training in Critical Care Medicine is highly desirable.
-   Minimum **5–10 years of post-specialization experience**, including substantial experience in intensive care medicine.
-   Strong expertise 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 multidisciplinary critical care teams.
-   Eligible for **DHA Consultant classification/license** in Dubai, subject to applicable qualification and experience requirements.
-   Excellent clinical judgment, leadership, communication, and decision-making 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.**

## Apply

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