About this role
Job Description: Consultant – Paediatric Medicine
Job Title: Consultant – Paediatric Medicine
Department: Paediatrics
Reporting To: Head of Department
Employment Type: Full-time
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct outpatient consultations and inpatient rounds for paediatric patients.
- Diagnose and manage common and complex paediatric medical conditions.
- Provide comprehensive care for neonates, infants, children, and adolescents as per the hospital's scope of services.
- Assess and manage paediatric emergencies and critically ill children.
- Coordinate with the NICU/PICU and other specialties when required.
- Interpret laboratory investigations, imaging, and other diagnostic reports.
- Develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
- Monitor patient progress and modify treatment plans appropriately.
- Counsel parents/guardians regarding diagnosis, treatment, nutrition, vaccination, and preventive healthcare.
- Maintain accurate medical records, clinical notes, discharge summaries, and other documentation.
- Ensure compliance with hospital clinical protocols, infection-control practices, and patient-safety standards.
- Participate in clinical meetings, case discussions, audits, and quality-improvement initiatives.
- Support teaching and training of residents, interns, and nursing/paramedical staff.
- Promote evidence-based and ethical paediatric practice.