General Pediatrician - Family-Centered Care & Growth

• General Pediatrician: Johns Hopkins All Children's

General Pediatrician: Johns Hopkins All Children's

General Pediatrician: Johns Hopkins All Children's

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Lakewood Ranch, FL 34211 Start Date09/02/2026

The physician will provide comprehensive, family-centered pediatric care across a broad range of outpatient conditions. Acute and chronic pediatric illness management is part of the clinical work. The team includes physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and support staff. The Florida practice is connected with Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. The current Johns Hopkins physician search includes this opening in its Physicians category.

• Employer: Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

A physician applying for the role can prepare a current CV, pediatric training history, state licensure details, and professional references. The recruiting conversation can settle role-specific requirements, credentialing documents, and arrangements for the January 2027 opening.

Family-Centered Pediatric Care

The General Pediatrician role covers preventive care, acute visits, and ongoing management for infants, children, and adolescents. Preventive visits commonly include growth review, developmental surveillance, immunization planning, screening, and guidance about nutrition, sleep, safety, and behavior.

Acute visits require assessment of symptoms, treatment planning, follow-up, and recognition of conditions that need urgent escalation. Longitudinal care includes monitoring asthma, allergies, obesity, behavioral health concerns, and other conditions that benefit from a consistent clinical relationship. Family-centered practice keeps caregivers involved in decisions while the physician protects the child's privacy and clinical needs.

Lakewood Ranch Practice Opening

The new practice is located in Lakewood Ranch, a community in Manatee County on Florida's Gulf Coast. A new practice requires clinical routines, referral relationships, and communication processes between the office and the pediatric health system.

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital is the named hospital partner. Collaboration can include consultation with pediatric specialists, hospital-based care transitions, shared review of test results, and follow-up after emergency or inpatient treatment. Those connections give the general pediatrician a defined path for care that cannot remain in the primary care office.

Care Across Childhood

Daily work in general pediatrics changes with the child's age and the reason for the visit. Newborn and infant care emphasizes feeding, growth, sleep, developmental milestones, and caregiver support. School-age visits add learning, activity, injury prevention, and mental health screening. Adolescent care includes confidential conversations, risk assessment, reproductive health, and preparation for adult medical care.

• Preventive examinations and developmental screening
• Immunizations and health maintenance
• Assessment and treatment of acute illness
• Chronic condition monitoring and care planning
• Family education and shared clinical decisions
• Referral and follow-up with pediatric specialists

Clear documentation connects each visit to the child's history and next clinical step. A pediatrician also recognizes when a symptom needs same-day escalation, emergency evaluation, diagnostic testing, or specialist review. Communication with caregivers remains part of the clinical work because home observations often shape the assessment.

Johns Hopkins Pediatric Team

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital is part of Johns Hopkins Medicine and focuses on pediatric care. The clinical environment includes physicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, social workers, and other professionals who contribute to children's treatment. A general pediatrician works within that team while maintaining responsibility for the primary care relationship.

Family-centered care depends on consistent handoffs and clear ownership of follow-up. The physician records the assessment, explains the plan in language a family can use, identifies warning signs, and confirms who will manage the next step. Coordination with hospital specialists becomes especially important when a child returns to community care after a procedure or admission.

The role requires completion of an ACGME-accredited Pediatric Residency. Board certification or board eligibility in Pediatrics and eligibility for unrestricted Florida medical licensure are also required for the appointment.

Credentialing files commonly include a CV, recommendations, board certification, state licenses, liability coverage, and identity documents, alongside training and work-history records identified in AAFP guidance. Hospital privileges depend on education, training, experience, and current competence. The practice's credentialing process determines the documents and privilege requests required for this appointment.

Compensation is described as competitive. Listed benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition assistance, life insurance, disability insurance, and employee discounts. These terms remain separate from the clinical requirements for the role.

The day-shift assignment sets the published schedule category, while the hiring process can settle daily clinic hours, call expectations, referral workflows, and onboarding dates. A physician entering a new practice also coordinates notice periods, credentialing review, relocation, and family scheduling before the January 2027 opening.

Johns Hopkins Health System is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a drug-free workplace. The system participates in E-Verify for employment eligibility.

Disability assistance is available through the HR Support Center at View phone number on click.appcast.io, with TTY access through Maryland Relay or 711.

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