Role Purpose

The Paediatrician will lead and strengthen child health services across both inpatient and outpatient settings, ensuring that infants, children, and adolescents in the Kullu–Manali valley receive timely, safe, developmentally attuned, and family-centered care.

This role requires both clinical excellence and gentle human presence, especially in a region where many families travel long distances from remote mountain villages for treatment. The Paediatrician will guide neonatal stabilization, oversee immunization and growth monitoring, and play a key role in training, protocol reinforcement, and community child health outreach.

This is a calling to care for the smallest, most fragile lives with skill and tenderness.

Key Responsibilities

1. Clinical Care

• Manage OPD and IPD pediatric cases, including infectious diseases, respiratory conditions, developmental concerns, and chronic pediatric follow-ups.
• Oversee NICU/SCNU care including neonatal resuscitation, stability support, and discharge planning.
• Conduct growth, nutrition, and developmental milestone assessments using evidence-based screening tools.
• Ensure rational use of medications and sensible diagnostics to support affordable care.

2. Emergency & Critical Support

• Perform neonatal and pediatric resuscitation during emergency deliveries and ER admissions.
• Stabilize high-acuity cases and collaborate with anesthesia, surgery, and internal medicine teams as needed.
• Support safe inter-facility referrals when required due to terrain, weather constraints, or critical condition.

3. Immunization & Preventive Child Health

• Lead and strengthen routine and special immunization drives in alignment with national schedules.
• Implement and mentor nursing staff in IMNCI (Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness) protocols.
• Guide parents and caregivers with compassionate, culturally appropriate counseling on nutrition, breastfeeding, hygiene, and early stimulation.

4. Training & Quality Improvement

• Coach nurses, junior doctors, interns, CHWs, and field outreach teams in pediatric and neonatal care.
• Conduct quality rounds, case reviews, and morbidity audits; contribute to clinical governance and safety efforts.
• Support development of SOPs, documentation standards, and neonatal care checklists.

5. Outreach & Community Engagement

• Participate in school health programs, village-based paediatric screening camps, and growth monitoring drives — including in hilly terrain and remote areas.
• Support follow-up and tele-counselling for high-risk infants and children in geographically difficult-to-reach communities.
• Coordinate with CHWs, ASHAs, Anganwadi workers, and mothers’ support groups.

Qualifications & Experience

• MD / DCH / DNB in Paediatrics, with valid medical registration.
• Minimum 2 years post-PG independent paediatric practice.
• Experience in neonatal stabilization and working in resource-constrained settings (preferred, not mandatory).

Skills & Competencies

• Confident in neonatal resuscitation, common paediatric procedures, and emergency stabilization.
• Warm, family-centered communication that respects cultural context and parental anxiety.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Comfort traveling to valley and high-altitude outreach sites, weather-permitting.

Personal Attributes

• Gentle, patient, and attentive presence — especially with distressed families.
• Ability to stay calm in high-emotion situations (birth emergencies, acute illnesses).
• Deep respect for the dignity and resilience of families in mountain communities.

Faith-Aligned Service Ethos

Lady Willingdon Hospital is a Christian mission hospital that offers care to all without discrimination.
The expectation is simply to:

• Practice compassionate, respectful pediatric care.
• Engage in a work culture shaped by humility, integrity, and quiet service.
• Be open to shared reflective moments or values-based team encouragement (no proselytizing).

Why This Role Matters

Here in the mountains, sometimes a child’s entire future hinges on one timely resuscitation, one careful diagnosis, one kind conversation with a frightened mother.

Your skills will not just treat illnesses they will protect stories, families, hopes, and beginnings.

Role Purpose

The Radiologist / Sonologist will provide accurate, timely, and clinically meaningful diagnostic imaging services that directly influence patient outcomes in a resource-conscious, high-altitude mission hospital setting. The role integrates technical expertise, clinical collaboration, patient reassurance, and the ability to communicate findings with clarity and ethical responsibility.

Many patients here travel from remote mountain villages, often in challenging weather — therefore, every scan and report carries weight, guiding treatment pathways that determine not just outcomes, but access to safe care.

Key Responsibilities

1. Imaging Services

• Perform and interpret Ultrasound (Abdominal, Obstetric, Vascular, Small Parts) with a high level of diagnostic accuracy.
• Report X-rays and, where available, CT / MRI in collaboration with external or tele-radiology support if required.
• Support emergency imaging for trauma, acute abdomen, obstetric complications, and paediatric distress cases.

2. Safety, Quality, & System Standards

• Ensure radiation safety protocols are consistently followed across radiology, wards, and OT teams.
• Oversee preventive maintenance, machine calibration, and documentation in collaboration with biomedical engineering.
• Maintain imaging documentation, archives, and reporting formats in alignment with hospital and regulatory requirements.

3. Clinical Collaboration

• Participate in clinico-radiologic discussions with physicians, surgeons, paediatricians, obstetricians, and emergency teams.
• Provide imaging guidance in emergency resuscitation and obstetric stabilization when rapid decisions are critical.
• Offer clear, kind, and culturally sensitive communication to patients and families regarding findings when appropriate.

4. Capacity Building

• Support training of junior doctors, nursing staff, CHWs, and interns on imaging indications, basic interpretation, and safety.
• Assist in strengthening point-of-care ultrasound skill development across clinical departments.

5. Outreach & Community Support (As Applicable)

• Contribute to antenatal screening and mobile ultrasound clinics during field or school health camps (terrain and season permitting).
• Help ensure access to imaging in remote contexts through tele-radiology coordination when needed.

Qualifications & Experience

• MD / DNB in Radio-Diagnosis OR recognized Sonologist Certification, with valid registration.
• Minimum 2 years post-PG or post-certification independent reporting experience.
• Experience in resource-limited / rural / mission hospital settings is welcome but not required.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong diagnostic accuracy with clear, structured reporting style.
• Sound judgment in distinguishing findings that require urgent action versus routine follow-ups.
• Proficiency in safety standards and quality protocols within imaging environments.
• Collaborative mindset with ability to guide clinicians without hierarchy or ego.

Personal Attributes

• Calm, precise, and ethical in high-pressure or time-sensitive situations.
• Patient-centered in both communication and procedure approach.
• Adaptable to mountain climate, seasonal access challenges, and tight-knit community work culture.

Faith-Aligned Service Ethos

Lady Willingdon Hospital is a Christian mission institution committed to serving all patients with dignity and compassion. Staff belong to many faith backgrounds, what unifies the team is:

• Integrity in reporting and clinical judgment.
• Respectful, equitable treatment of every patient.
• Openness to shared values, reflection, and team-based encouragement (no proselytizing, ever).

Why This Role Matters

In the mountains, where access to specialists is rare and travel is often difficult
Your accuracy becomes someone’s lifeline. Your words in a report shape the entire journey of care, often in the very moment families are deciding whether they must travel further, wait, or act urgently.

This role is not just technical It is deeply human and deeply valuable.