Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dubai

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 personcentred and familyfocused 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 evidenceinformed 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 nonhealth care providers such as teachers early childhood educators residential workers for outofhome care and well as third parties such as child protection and the courts Salary Aed 70 per month plus family benefits Company Profile Davidson Healthcare Recruitment is a leading Healthcare and Leadership headhunting consultancy based in Dubai with branches in UK and India Our Medical recruitment Consultants are trained on the PQR for all medical specialties and medical subspecialties for all the countries We are leaders in Physician Surgeon and Allied Healthcare Recruitment for Hospitals Medical Centers Clinics and Medical Universities headhunting Tier 1 and Tier 2 Board Certified Fellowship trained Physicians and Surgeons ABMS CCT CCST ARAB Board RCPSC FRC Australia and New Zealand OBERARZT and CMSA among others across all medical specialties and subspecialties from across the globe We also specialize in recruiting DHA DHCC DOH and MOH licensed Physicians and Allied Healthcare professionals within UAE