Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join our multidisciplinary mental health service in Abu Dhabi.
This role focuses on specialist psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for children and adolescents, contributing to service development, clinical governance, and education in line with international best practice and Department of Health (DOH) Abu Dhabi standards.
The successful candidate will provide specialist psychiatric assessment and management for children and adolescents with a wide range of mental health disorders. They will also conduct comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, formulate evidence-based treatment plans, prescribe psychotropic medications as required by local regulations, deliver care across various settings such outpatient clinics or hospital wards ,liaison support paediatric educational community services&closely work psychologists nurses therapists social workersCollaborate schools safeguarding agencies external stakeholdersGovernance Quality Safety Ensure compliance DOH Abu Dhabi regulation ethical standard child protection processesRisk assess manage protectTeaching Supervision Leadership Provide supervision mentoring junior staff training continuous professional activitiesSupport develop pathways policy implementation
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