Consultant Infectious Diseases
Posted date [2026-07-01]
(ID: 47317)
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Allocation Assist Middle East was founded by Emilie Davies in 2015, after she recognised a gap in the market for assisting highly skilled Western-trained doctors to find rewarding and fulfilling opportunities in top-tier hospitals in the UAE and other Gulf countries. We are now the fastest growing medical consulting company in the Middle East, having helped hundreds of senior consultant doctors from various specialties and backgrounds advance their careers and lifestyle while contributing to the dynamic and growing healthcare sector in this progressive and dynamic region of the world.... |
Job Description and Requirements
Consultant Infectious DiseasesJob Snapshot
Role: Consultant 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
Position Overview
Consultant Infectious Diseases in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Hospital and Health Care opportunity for a physician experienced in diagnosing, managing, and preventing complex infectious diseases across inpatient and outpatient settings. This role supports a leading healthcare facility with clinical operations in Sharjah and is suited for an infectious disease consultant with strong expertise in sepsis, HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, hospital-acquired infections, emerging infectious diseases, immunocompromised patient care, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection control leadership.
Job Details
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Industry: Hospital and Health Care
Function: Physician
Salary: 70000-90000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality:
Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Consultant Infectious Diseases will provide advanced clinical care for patients with complicated, communicable, hospital-associated, and high-risk infections. The role is important for improving patient safety, reducing infection-related complications, optimizing antimicrobial use, supporting outbreak readiness, and strengthening infection prevention practices within a modern hospital environment. Working with intensive care, internal medicine, microbiology, public health, nursing, pharmacy, and hospital leadership teams, the consultant will help deliver evidence-based infectious disease care while supporting governance, education, surveillance, and quality improvement.
Key Responsibilities
* Diagnose and manage a wide range of infectious diseases across inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.
* Lead clinical management of complex infectious disease cases including sepsis, HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, resistant infections, and complicated systemic infections.
* Provide expert consultation on hospital-acquired infections, healthcare-associated infections, communicable diseases, emerging infectious diseases, and infections in immunocompromised patients.
* Develop, implement, and monitor antimicrobial stewardship programs to improve antibiotic selection, dosing, duration, resistance prevention, and prescribing quality.
* Support infection control policy development, isolation protocols, surveillance systems, and hospital-wide infection prevention standards.
* Collaborate with intensive care, internal medicine, microbiology, public health, pharmacy, emergency medicine, surgery, nursing, and multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
* Participate in outbreak investigation, exposure review, contact tracing support, surveillance activities, and infection prevention initiatives.
* Oversee infection control compliance within the hospital, including isolation practices, hand hygiene standards, transmission-based precautions, and staff education.
* Review microbiology reports, blood cultures, antimicrobial sensitivity results, laboratory findings, imaging reports, and clinical progress to guide treatment decisions.
* Educate and train medical staff on infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, communicable disease precautions, and evidence-based infectious disease management.
* Stay updated with emerging infectious disease trends, clinical guidelines, public health alerts, and relevant research.
* Contribute to clinical audits, quality improvement projects, morbidity reviews, governance meetings, and hospital policy discussions.
* Maintain accurate consultation notes, antimicrobial recommendations, infection control records, outbreak documentation, treatment plans, and follow-up reports in line with UAE healthcare requirements.
* Promote patient safety, ethical practice, confidentiality, clinical governance, and multidisciplinary communication in all infectious disease services.
Ideal Profile
* Medical degree such as MBBS or equivalent from a recognized institution.
* Board Certification in Infectious Diseases is mandatory.
* MOHAP eligibility or UAE medical licensing eligibility for Sharjah is required.
* Minimum 5 years of experience as a Consultant Infectious Disease specialist.
* Strong expertise in managing complex infectious diseases, communicable diseases, healthcare-associated infections, and high-risk inpatient cases.
* Practical experience in infection control programs and antimicrobial stewardship initiatives.
* Proven ability to manage sepsis, HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, emerging infections, immunocompromised patient infections, and hospital-acquired infections.
* Experience working with ICU, microbiology, internal medicine, pharmacy, and public health teams is highly valued.
* Strong clinical judgment, leadership ability, communication skills, and multidisciplinary teamwork.
* Experience in a multicultural healthcare environment is preferred.
* Ability to train medical staff and support hospital-wide infection prevention practices.
* Commitment to evidence-based medicine, patient safety, accurate documentation, continuous professional development, and ethical clinical care.
Skills Set
* Infectious diseases
* Adult infectious disease care
* Sepsis management
* HIV care
* Tuberculosis management
* Viral hepatitis care
* Hospital-acquired infections
* Healthcare-associated infections
* Emerging infectious diseases
* Immunocompromised patient care
* Antimicrobial stewardship
* Antibiotic optimization
* Infection control
* Infection prevention
* Outbreak investigation
* Disease surveillance
* Isolation protocols
* Infection control compliance
* Microbiology interpretation
* Blood culture review
* Antimicrobial sensitivity review
* ICU infectious disease consultation
* Public health collaboration
* Staff education
* Clinical audits
* Quality improvement
* Hospital governance
* MOHAP licensing eligibility
* Clinical documentation
* Patient safety
* Evidence-based care
Why Join Us
This Consultant Infectious Diseases role offers a strong opportunity to work within the UAE’s advanced Hospital and Health Care sector, where demand for infection control leadership, antimicrobial stewardship, complex infection management, and emerging disease preparedness continues to grow. The position provides access to modern hospital facilities, advanced diagnostics, multidisciplinary collaboration, continuous professional development, supportive leadership, and structured career growth. Benefits include a competitive tax-free salary package, housing and relocation support depending on employer policy, and the opportunity to contribute to safer, higher-quality infectious disease care.
About the Company
Allocation Assist Middle East supports healthcare organizations across the UAE and wider Middle East by connecting qualified physicians with consultant and specialist medical opportunities. Through its Dubai-based recruitment support, the company helps hospitals, clinics, tertiary care providers, and advanced medical facilities secure experienced doctors in high-demand specialties such as infectious diseases, infection control, internal medicine, antimicrobial stewardship, and multidisciplinary hospital-based care.
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Consultant Infectious Diseases will provide advanced clinical care for patients with complicated, communicable, hospital-associated, and high-risk infections. The role is important for improving patient safety, reducing infection-related complications, optimizing antimicrobial use, supporting outbreak readiness, and strengthening infection prevention practices within a modern hospital environment. Working with intensive care, internal medicine, microbiology, public health, nursing, pharmacy, and hospital leadership teams, the consultant will help deliver evidence-based infectious disease care while supporting governance, education, surveillance, and quality improvement.
Key Responsibilities
* Diagnose and manage a wide range of infectious diseases across inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.
* Lead clinical management of complex infectious disease cases including sepsis, HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, resistant infections, and complicated systemic infections.
* Provide expert consultation on hospital-acquired infections, healthcare-associated infections, communicable diseases, emerging infectious diseases, and infections in immunocompromised patients.
* Develop, implement, and monitor antimicrobial stewardship programs to improve antibiotic selection, dosing, duration, resistance prevention, and prescribing quality.
* Support infection control policy development, isolation protocols, surveillance systems, and hospital-wide infection prevention standards.
* Collaborate with intensive care, internal medicine, microbiology, public health, pharmacy, emergency medicine, surgery, nursing, and multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
* Participate in outbreak investigation, exposure review, contact tracing support, surveillance activities, and infection prevention initiatives.
* Oversee infection control compliance within the hospital, including isolation practices, hand hygiene standards, transmission-based precautions, and staff education.
* Review microbiology reports, blood cultures, antimicrobial sensitivity results, laboratory findings, imaging reports, and clinical progress to guide treatment decisions.
* Educate and train medical staff on infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, communicable disease precautions, and evidence-based infectious disease management.
* Stay updated with emerging infectious disease trends, clinical guidelines, public health alerts, and relevant research.
* Contribute to clinical audits, quality improvement projects, morbidity reviews, governance meetings, and hospital policy discussions.
* Maintain accurate consultation notes, antimicrobial recommendations, infection control records, outbreak documentation, treatment plans, and follow-up reports in line with UAE healthcare requirements.
* Promote patient safety, ethical practice, confidentiality, clinical governance, and multidisciplinary communication in all infectious disease services.
Ideal Profile
* Medical degree such as MBBS or equivalent from a recognized institution.
* Board Certification in Infectious Diseases is mandatory.
* MOHAP eligibility or UAE medical licensing eligibility for Sharjah is required.
* Minimum 5 years of experience as a Consultant Infectious Disease specialist.
* Strong expertise in managing complex infectious diseases, communicable diseases, healthcare-associated infections, and high-risk inpatient cases.
* Practical experience in infection control programs and antimicrobial stewardship initiatives.
* Proven ability to manage sepsis, HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, emerging infections, immunocompromised patient infections, and hospital-acquired infections.
* Experience working with ICU, microbiology, internal medicine, pharmacy, and public health teams is highly valued.
* Strong clinical judgment, leadership ability, communication skills, and multidisciplinary teamwork.
* Experience in a multicultural healthcare environment is preferred.
* Ability to train medical staff and support hospital-wide infection prevention practices.
* Commitment to evidence-based medicine, patient safety, accurate documentation, continuous professional development, and ethical clinical care.
Skills Set
* Infectious diseases
* Adult infectious disease care
* Sepsis management
* HIV care
* Tuberculosis management
* Viral hepatitis care
* Hospital-acquired infections
* Healthcare-associated infections
* Emerging infectious diseases
* Immunocompromised patient care
* Antimicrobial stewardship
* Antibiotic optimization
* Infection control
* Infection prevention
* Outbreak investigation
* Disease surveillance
* Isolation protocols
* Infection control compliance
* Microbiology interpretation
* Blood culture review
* Antimicrobial sensitivity review
* ICU infectious disease consultation
* Public health collaboration
* Staff education
* Clinical audits
* Quality improvement
* Hospital governance
* MOHAP licensing eligibility
* Clinical documentation
* Patient safety
* Evidence-based care
Why Join Us
This Consultant Infectious Diseases role offers a strong opportunity to work within the UAE’s advanced Hospital and Health Care sector, where demand for infection control leadership, antimicrobial stewardship, complex infection management, and emerging disease preparedness continues to grow. The position provides access to modern hospital facilities, advanced diagnostics, multidisciplinary collaboration, continuous professional development, supportive leadership, and structured career growth. Benefits include a competitive tax-free salary package, housing and relocation support depending on employer policy, and the opportunity to contribute to safer, higher-quality infectious disease care.
About the Company
Allocation Assist Middle East supports healthcare organizations across the UAE and wider Middle East by connecting qualified physicians with consultant and specialist medical opportunities. Through its Dubai-based recruitment support, the company helps hospitals, clinics, tertiary care providers, and advanced medical facilities secure experienced doctors in high-demand specialties such as infectious diseases, infection control, internal medicine, antimicrobial stewardship, and multidisciplinary hospital-based care.
