Pediatrician Job description
Job brief
As a member of the Paediatric team to provide high quality health services for children and young people. To provide efficient high quality investigation and treatment services to a standard comparable with that of competent colleagues, to the community served, and achieving the purpose and fulfilling the principal accountabilities set out in this document. To contribute to associated community paediatric activities.
Responsibilities
- Examine children regularly to assess their growth and development.
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
- Treat children who have minor illnesses, acute and chronic health problems, and growth and development concerns.
- Treat acute illnesses, infections, or injuries.
- Treat chronic diseases or disorders.
- Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, and examination results.
- Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals.
- Record patient medical histories.
- Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury in infants and children.
- Administer non-intravenous medications.
- Prescribe treatments or therapies.
- Prescribe medications.
- Examine patients or order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests to obtain information on medical condition and determine diagnosis.
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
- Order medical diagnostic or clinical tests.
- Advise patients, parents or guardians, and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers.
- Advise communities or institutions regarding health or safety issues.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients and parents or guardians.
- Explain medical procedures or test results to patients or family members.
- Monitor patients’ conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
- Plan and execute medical care programs to aid in the mental and physical growth and development of children and adolescents.
- Design public or employee health programs.
- Direct healthcare delivery programs.
- Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.
- Supervise patient care personnel.
- Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.
- Refer patients to other healthcare practitioners or health resources.
- Operate on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems.
- Operate on patients to treat conditions.
- Conduct research to study anatomy and develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures to prevent or control disease or injury.
- Conduct research to increase knowledge about medical issues.
- Provide consulting services to other physicians.
- Advise medical personnel regarding healthcare issues.
- Plan, implement, or administer health programs or standards in hospitals, businesses, or communities for prevention or treatment of injury or illness.
- Design public or employee health programs.
- Direct healthcare delivery programs.
- Prepare government or organizational reports of birth, death, and disease statistics, workforce evaluations, or medical status of individuals.
- Prepare official health documents or records.
Requirements
- Unencumbered license to practice medicine in Illinois as an MD/DO.
- Qualified in Basic Life Support.
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Pediatrics.
- Must be able to speak English clearly and fluently.
- Must be able to read and interpret clinical data.
- Must have mobility sufficient to provide care to a variety of patients at an adequate pace.
- Must have manual dexterity sufficient to perform procedures usually performed in this specialty.
- Ability to drive a car.
