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General Paediatrician at Jalaram Medical Services
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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 8 days ago (28 Aug 2026) Deadline: 30 Sep 2026 Updated 6 days ago
Job Description
The General Paediatrician provides comprehensive, evidence‑based medical care to children and adolescents, focusing on diagnosis, treatment, and preventive health. Responsibilities include conducting consultations, managing acute and chronic conditions, handling emergencies, monitoring growth, and providing family‑centred counselling. The role demands strong clinical judgment, excellent communication, and a commitment to high‑quality child health services.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • Medical degree and professional certification in paediatrics
- • Relevant experience of 3–5 years in paediatric practice
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Conduct comprehensive pediatric consultations, assessments, diagnoses, and management
- • Provide care for common acute and chronic pediatric conditions
- • Assess, stabilise, and manage pediatric emergencies with appropriate referral or admission
- • Monitor growth, development, nutrition, and overall wellbeing, delivering preventive care and immunisations
- • Identify developmental, behavioural, nutritional, and safeguarding concerns and initiate appropriate management or referral
- • Order and interpret investigations, develop individualized treatment plans, and ensure effective follow‑up
- • Communicate clearly with patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams