Careers · Join the founding team
Build a quaternary hospital from the first principle up.
KSSH is building the founding team for a 700-bed greenfield hospital in Coimbatore, from senior clinical and executive leaders to doctors, nurses, technicians, engineers and support staff. This is the rare chance to shape systems, culture and standards before a single ward opens — not inherit them.
Why join KSSH
Founding, not filling
Senior appointments will help define clinical protocols, service lines and the Centres of Excellence — shaping the institution rather than joining a finished one.
Centres of Excellence, by design
The clinical brief is being built around planned Centres of Excellence in cardiac, neuro, oncology, renal, gastro, orthopaedic and mother-and-child care, supported by high-acuity critical care and emergency medicine.
A regional referral centre
Set within a catchment of 22 to 25 million people across western Tamil Nadu and Kerala, KSSH is planned as a quaternary referral centre: the level of care that today sends families to Chennai, Bengaluru or beyond.
A greenfield canvas
Purpose-built infrastructure designed around the specialty, with clinical, digital and environmental systems planned together from the start.
Backed by legacy
A new super-speciality campus in Ganapathy, to function in addition to Kongunad Hospital in Tatabad, built on the reputation Kongunad Hospitals has earned in Coimbatore for quality healthcare at an affordable cost.
A workplace built for wellbeing
The same biophilic thinking applied to patient areas is being designed into staff spaces — daylight, planting and calm as part of the working day.
A glimpse inside
Where you will work
The full design stays under wraps for now. These details offer a glimpse of spaces being built around daylight, planting and calm — for patients, and for the teams who care for them.
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Places to pause
Details from architectural renders; final designs may vary. Full design walkthroughs are shared in conversation with shortlisted candidates.
Where we are hiring
We are in active conversation with candidates across the following areas. Roles are being defined with the people who take them on.
Clinical leadership
- Heads of Department — Cardiac Sciences, Neurosciences, Oncology, Renal Sciences, Gastrosciences, Orthopaedics, Mother & Child
- Chief of Critical Care & Emergency Medicine
- Chief of Anaesthesiology & Perioperative Services
- Chief of Laboratory Medicine & Diagnostics
- Chief of Radiology & Imaging
Consultants & specialists
- Consultants for the planned Centres of Excellence — cardiac, neuro, oncology, renal, gastro, orthopaedic and mother-and-child care
- Consultants in critical care, emergency medicine and anaesthesiology
- Consultants in laboratory medicine, pathology, radiology and imaging
- Specialists across other medical and surgical specialities
Executive & administrative leadership
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Information Officer / Head of Digital Health
- Head of Quality, Accreditation & Patient Safety
Medical officers
- Resident medical officers — wards and specialities
- Emergency and casualty medical officers
- Critical care medical officers
Nursing
- Nursing superintendents and nurse managers
- Staff nurses — wards, emergency and operation theatres
- Specialist nurses — critical care, dialysis, oncology and neonatal care
Technicians
- Cath lab technicians
- Dialysis technicians
- Critical care technicians
- Operation theatre technicians
- Anaesthesia technicians
- Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD) technicians
- Medical records technicians
Allied health & diagnostics
- Laboratory technologists
- Radiographers and imaging technologists
- Pharmacists
- Physiotherapists
Administration & operations
- Hospital operations and administration managers
- Quality, accreditation and patient safety
- Finance, billing and insurance
- Human resources and training
- Purchase, stores and supply chain
- Front office, admissions and patient relations
Digital health & information technology
- Hospital information systems and electronic medical records
- Networks, infrastructure and cybersecurity
- Clinical informatics, data and analytics
Engineering & facilities
- Head of Engineering & Facilities
- Biomedical engineers — medical equipment planning, commissioning and maintenance
- Electrical, plumbing and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) engineers and maintenance technicians
- Medical gas, fire and life safety specialists
Support services
- Housekeeping and environmental services
- Food and nutrition services
- Security
- Linen and laundry
- Patient transport
Standards we are building toward
KSSH is being planned with quality and accreditation designed in from the start — with the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) and Joint Commission International (JCI) frameworks informing the clinical and operational brief. Candidates who help build to these standards will help set them here.
Your first conversation
Meet the Medical Director
Dr. Karthikeyan Raju Medical Director · Laparoscopic surgeon
Dr. Karthikeyan Raju is a laparoscopic surgeon and the Medical Director of Kongunad Hospitals. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore, and his Master of Surgery (MS) in General Surgery at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. He is a Fellow of the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (FIAGES).
He joined Kongunad Hospitals as a surgeon more than a decade ago and went on to become its Medical Director, leading the group's operations and strategy. He now leads the building of the KSSH founding team and, with members of his executive team, vets every profile in confidence.
“The building is being designed around daylight and calm. What KSSH becomes will be decided by the people who join it now, and I would like to meet those who would rather build that than inherit it.”
Interested in a founding role?
Share your profile and CV in a few minutes. Every profile is vetted in confidence by Dr. Karthikeyan Raju, Medical Director, and members of his executive team.