Resident Paediatrician at Avenue Healthcare
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Date posted
September 26, 2025
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Closing date
October 8, 2025
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Hiring location
Kisumu
Description
ERF0191 | Resident Paediatrician
Purpose Statement Mission Job Description
Our purpose is to enable and maintain health.
To provide high quality care that exceeds our clients’ expectations.
Avenue Healthcare is one of the leading private healthcare groups in East Africa running 3 Hospitals, and 16 Medical Centres across Kenya, and a Homecare business. With over 25 years in the healthcare industry, Avenue Healthcare runs 300 hospital beds with over 1,000 staff members, and more than 400 specialists and serves over 400,000 patients annually, offering primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare services
Position: Resident Pediatrician
Position Type: Permanent
Location: Kisumu Hospital
Department: Medical Services
Reports To: Medical Services Manager
Job Objective/Purpose
Provide and ensure quality Pediatric services within the Avenue group in line with the company policies and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Attend to walk in and referred pediatric patients both out and in patient.
- Receive and resuscitate newborns in Theatre and Maternity.
- To offer pediatric consultancy to all the doctors in Avenue Group.
- Run the pediatric outpatient clinics.
- Provision of superior diagnostic, preventative and interventional medical care.
- Accurate and clear documentation of patient history, physical examination, investigations, and management.
- Provide clarity of investigations to be carried out and interpretation of the results and ensure update to the patients, next of kin and conduct family conferences on need basis.
- Facilitate patient admissions, necessary consents, and discharges.
- Counsel clients on treatment and compliance to treatment (patient and family) while ensuring their participation in decision making in their management.
- Carry out procedures (pediatric) while ensuring high quality of care/services and safety of patients.
- Participate in morbidity and mortality meetings as required.
- Participation in incident reporting, root cause analysis and the Avenue Quality Improvement Plan
- Participation in resuscitation of patients.
- Conduct timely ward rounds and patient reviews.
- Facilitate Continuous Medical Education and mentorship to colleagues to build capacity to provide care.
- Acquiring new skills on best practices and assist in their implementation.
- Maintain a positive work attitude and foster teamwork.
- Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality at all times.
- Ensure patient satisfaction through quality of care, communication, feedback, and escalation through the standardized tool for patient satisfaction measurement and demonstrate follow-up and improvement.
- Increase the quality and diversity of services offered in the facility.
- Support marketing activities to ensure introduction of new services.
- Ensure pre-authorizations have been sought.
Person Specification
- Specialist recognition in Paediatrics
- Master of Medicine in Paediatrics
- 2 years’ experience
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Result Oriented
- Customer focus
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https://careers.avenuehealthcare.com/job-details.php?job=216
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