Consultant Neonatologist

Job responsibilities

Clinical Duties:

Intensive Care weeks: The attending consultant has continuing responsibility for care of both medical and surgical patients in their charge, including all babies in intensive care and the isolation room. High-dependency Care weeks: The attending consultant has continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge including all babies in the high dependency area on the unit.

Special Care weeks: The appointee will participate in providing cover for special care babies, transitional care and the postnatal wards.

Non-attending weeks: The appointee will undertake appropriate administrative and clinical duties associated with the running of the clinical department.

Clinic: There is a once weekly neonatal follow-up clinic, staffed by two neonatal consultants and a middle grade doctor. Once a month, there are high-risk neonatal graduates where higher risk infants have a detailed scored neurodevelopmental assessment. The post holder will have an interest in neurodevelopment and cover the neurodevelopmental graduate clinics together with the lead consultant for neurodevelopment and another consultant with neurodevelopmental expertise. The post holder will also cover several other Wednesday neonatal follow up clinics.

Out of hours of cover: On call will be 1:11.1 with prospective cover allowing for colleagues leave.

The post holder will be expected to lead Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) case reviews and PMRT, Child Death Review (CDR) report writing as part of at least four neonatal consultants contributing to a core mortality governance group.

Non-clinical duties

Leadership & Management: All consultants take an active role in the leadership and management of the clinical service, attend regular multidisciplinary meetings and lead defined areas of the service. SPA responsibilities will complement those of the team.

The successful candidate will participate in the Trusts system of governance and audit and to observe the Trusts agreed policies and procedures, drawn up in consultation with the profession on clinical matters, and to follow the standing orders and financial instructions of the Trust.

Education: All consultants actively support multi-professional and undergraduate education within the department. It is expected that the post holder will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

CPD, Appraisal and Job-planning: All consultants are expected to regularly update their professional knowledge and to maintain a portfolio of evidence for CPD. They will also have a commitment to participate in the Trusts mandatory and statutory training (MAST). The post holder will be supported to develop the required skills in educational supervision.

Research: Applicants with a comprehensive research portfolio who can lead new projects on the neonatal unit will be welcome.

Academic: The post-holder will be expected to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCPCH/MRCP (or equivalent)
• MD

Desirable

• Higher medical or related degree

Certification

Essential

• Registration with GMC and on the Specialist Register CCST or CCT in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) or equivalent, (or eligible for CCST/CCT and registration within 6 months of interview)
• Child Safeguarding level 3 training

Expertise

Essential

• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for a wide variety of neonatal illness, including care of surgical neonates
• Advanced technical skills in neonatal medicine
• Experience in neonatal follow-up programmes
• Ability to advise on the efficient and smooth running of a specialist service
• Family integrated care experience.
• Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Desirable

• Formal training in teaching skills
• Higher qualification in medical education
• Appraisal and assessment training and skills
• Clinical interests to complement current medical staff
• Neonatal intensive care sub specialist area of expertise
• Bayley Scales developmental assessment trained.
• Experience conducting Bayley Scales neurodevelopmental assessments independently.

Research

Essential

• Author of publications in peer reviewed journals
• Presentation to learned societies

Desirable

• Lead author in research publications
• Lead investigator in clinical study
• Higher research degree (PhD/ MD)
• Research group collaboration and leadership

Management skills

Essential

• Evidence of leadership skills
• Evidence of management skills
• Good understanding of the structure and processes of the NHS
• Attendance at management course

Desirable

• Formal Management and Leadership training

Clinical Governance

Essential

• Understanding of Clinical Governance & Risk
• Evidence of involvement in multi-disciplinary Governance, Risk and Audit

Desirable

• Formal audit training & publication
• Formal risk training

Personal skills

Essential

• Commitment to continuing CPD, teaching and educational supervision
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to develop excellent working relationships with neonatal team and new team
• Caring attitude to patients
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Formal leadership training

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).