Davidson Management Consultants have been mandated to recruit a
western trained Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
for their client in Dubai which owns and operates a chain of mental health facilities across UAE.
We are looking for experienced Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists with experience in Psychotherapy. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist will be responsible for medical assessment, evaluation and treatment of patients with acute and chronic psychiatric disorders and mental health difficulties as appropriate. Liaise and provide medical psychiatric opinions to consultant paediatric colleagues.
Responsible for the psychiatric assessment and treatment of patients under your care, lead and delegate to clinicians. Provide a range of psychiatric and mental health treatments using psychopharmacology as appropriate.
Participate in and attend meetings with other specialties for patients with psychiatric and mental health disorders.Liaise with consultant child and adolescent psychiatry colleagues.Provide evidence based teaching and supervision to junior doctors as well as nursing and allied health professionals.Promote and be involved with clinical governance within the department of psychiatry.
Your primary role as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist is to use your skills and medical expertise to achieve the highest quality of care for young people experiencing mental health problems in partnership with their families or carers.
You will consider and evaluate the normal and abnormal development across the life span, take into account family functioning, systemic (social and relational) assessment, physical health, comorbidity and multiple diagnoses, neurobiology, pharmacology, emotional health and interpersonal relationships, geographic location, social adversity, school, as well as psychiatric disorders and substance use disorder (in both young people and their adult carers).
You would be required to apply an integrated biopsychosocial model in understanding, diagnosing and managing mental illness, emotional disturbance and abnormal behaviour and provide person-centred and family-focused mental health care that is developmentally informed, timely and appropriate.You would Seek and synthesise information from multiple sources to inform clinical decisions.
These sources may include interviews with the individual, family (acknowledging that more than one person may be the clinical focus within a family) and other key informants (including other doctors and mental health professionals, education professionals and others supporting the young person), observations within the home, school or other settings, laboratory tests, imaging, structured mental health assessments and structured assessments by other professionals, for example, neuropsychological assessments or developmental assessments.
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist will deliver evidence-informed treatment tailored to meet the social and personal needs of the young person and their family, including the settings in which they live e.g. family, school, and local communities.
Recognise that cultural contexts may impact on assessment, management, and recovery and that the availability and presence of other services available for young people have an impact.
Recommend or undertake a comprehensive range of interventions including medication treatments and psychotherapeutic treatments with young people and their families; and recommend or enable appropriate social interventions e.g. in schools.
Support others caring for the young person and maintain hope for the young people and their family through family work and consultation to other services.
Recognise the importance of ongoing developmental processes in recovery and acknowledge that whilst the recovery processes are relevant for young people, how these are expressed will depend on their age and developmental stage and requires interventions to be aligned with a young persons and family’s developmental needs.
This includes recognition of broader developmental risk whereby academic, occupational, personal and social developmental outcomes may be compromised due to mental illness or where developmental delays or deficits contribute to compromised mental health.
Manage the interface of mental and physical health including the risk of adverse physical health outcomes due to mental illness and its treatment, and the risk of adverse mental health outcomes due to physical illness and its treatment.
Promote shared decision making, by recognising the importance of the young person’s autonomy, values and preferences by ensuring that they, and their parents/guardians, have a central role in decisions about their own clinical care, and collaboratively develop a plan for care.
This includes managing issues of capacity and competency to consent, including where young people and parent preferences diverge. Identify and integrate appropriate management of parental mental health concerns with the care of the young person. Using expertise in both adult and child mental health, you will recognise the impact of parental mental illness and substance use problems on parenting and on a young person’s development and tailor intervention for the young person and their family accordingly.
Facilitate the transition of young people with ongoing mental health problems to adult mental health care and the transitioning of very young children from perinatal and infant services to appropriate mental health care when needed. Provide a key consultative/liaison role to provide expert advice to those involved in providing care to the young person and their family.
Such opinions may be provided to other doctors and health care providers, and non-health care providers such as teachers, early childhood educators, residential workers for out-of-home care, and well as third parties such as child protection and the courts.
Salary : Aed 70,000 per month plus family benefits.