Paediatrician
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.