Naruvi Hospitals is seeking a skilled and compassionate Consultant – Paediatrics to join our Paediatrics Department. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive medical care to newborns, infants, children, and adolescents, including preventive healthcare, developmental assessments, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of acute and chronic paediatric conditions. The consultant will collaborate closely with neonatologists, paediatric surgeons, nursing staff, emergency medicine physicians, intensivists, and other multidisciplinary healthcare professionals to ensure safe, evidence-based, and family-centred care.

Key Responsibilities

- Evaluate, diagnose, and manage paediatric patients in outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and consultation settings.
- Provide comprehensive medical care to newborns, infants, children, and adolescents within the consultant's scope of practice.
- Assess and manage a broad range of paediatric conditions, including:
- Common childhood infections, including respiratory tract infections and gastrointestinal infections
- Fever of unknown origin and recurrent fever
- Acute respiratory illnesses, asthma, and wheezing disorders
- Diarrhoeal diseases, dehydration, and nutritional deficiencies
- Growth and developmental delays
- Childhood obesity and undernutrition
- Anaemia and other common haematological conditions
- Congenital and acquired cardiac conditions requiring general paediatric assessment
- Gastrointestinal, renal, and endocrine disorders in children
- Seizures and other common paediatric neurological presentations
- Allergic disorders and common childhood skin conditions
- Infectious diseases, including dengue, malaria, and other regionally prevalent infections
- Adolescent health concerns and lifestyle-related conditions
- Common neonatal conditions, within the consultant's training and scope of practice
- Acute paediatric illnesses and medical emergencies
- Conduct comprehensive paediatric assessments, including medical history, physical examination, growth monitoring, and developmental evaluation.




- Monitor growth parameters, nutritional status, developmental milestones, and age-appropriate health indicators.
- Develop individualized treatment plans based on clinical findings, age, weight, medical history, and established paediatric guidelines.
- Prescribe and monitor medications with appropriate paediatric dosing, assessing therapeutic response, adverse effects, contraindications, and drug interactions.
- Order, interpret, and correlate relevant laboratory investigations, imaging studies, and other diagnostic tests.
- Recognize and initiate timely management of paediatric emergencies, including respiratory distress, seizures, dehydration, shock, and other acute presentations.
- Stabilize critically ill children and coordinate timely referral or transfer to the paediatric intensive care unit or higher level of care when indicated.
- Provide appropriate inpatient care, conduct daily ward rounds, monitor clinical progress, and modify treatment plans according to the child's condition.
- Assess newborns and provide routine newborn care, early identification of neonatal concerns, and appropriate referrals in accordance with training and departmental protocols.
- Provide preventive healthcare services, including immunization counselling, nutritional guidance, growth monitoring, and age-appropriate health screening.
- Identify developmental, behavioural, nutritional, and psychosocial concerns and coordinate appropriate specialist assessment or early intervention.
- Counsel parents and caregivers regarding diagnoses, treatment plans, medication administration, nutrition, immunization, hygiene, injury prevention,



and warning signs requiring urgent medical attention.
- Coordinate with neonatologists, paediatric surgeons, paediatric intensivists, paediatric subspecialists, and other departments for comprehensive patient management.
- Participate in multidisciplinary case discussions and coordinate referrals for children requiring specialized care.
- Ensure appropriate discharge planning, caregiver education, medication reconciliation, and follow-up arrangements.
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive clinical documentation, including assessment findings, diagnoses, investigation results, treatment plans, growth records, and discharge summaries.
- Participate in emergency paediatric services, inpatient reviews, and on-call duties as per the departmental roster.
- Promote patient safety, infection prevention and control, child safeguarding, confidentiality, informed consent, and ethical clinical practice.
- Ensure compliance with hospital policies, applicable medical regulations, and established standards for paediatric care.
- Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, departmental meetings, teaching, and continuing career development activities as appropriate.
- Participation in emergency paediatric services, inpatient ward rounds, newborn assessments within the consultant's scope of practice, multidisciplinary consultations, and on-call duties as per the departmental roster.

Qualifications
- MD/DNB in Paediatrics with Valid Medical Council registration with the relevant statutory medical authority.
- Additional fellowship training or qualifications in neonatology, paediatric intensive care, paediatric emergency medicine, developmental paediatrics, or other relevant subspecialties will be an advantage.

Experience

Minimum: Fresher

Maximum: 5 years

Work Schedule

Shift Pattern: Rotational shifts

Working Hours: 9 hours per day

Working Days: 6 days per week

Pay: ₹120,000.00 - ₹1,440,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

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