Consultant in Neonatology | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | dependent on expereince |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE15WW |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6084893/358-6084893-CON |
Summary
Consultant in Neonatology
There is an exciting opportunity to join the consultant team working for the Leicester Neonatal Service.
This post has been developed to support a planned expansion of neonatal cots and to provide an increase in consultant support to the neonatal service. These posts include a resident on call commitment, working as a resident consultant with 2 middle grade doctors and one ST1-3 doctor.
The Leicester Neonatal Service is currently split across 2 sites. There are currently 42 cots with a plan to incrementally increase to a total of 48 cots over the next 3 years.
The Neonatal Service provides the full range of tertiary neonatal services including care for babies of all gestations, advanced modes of ventilation, neonatal surgery and close working links with the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre and the UK’s largest ECMO service. There are currently around 11,000 deliveries per annum in Leicester. We are the lead perinatal centre for the Central Newborn Network and host the CenTre regional transport service.
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The Leicester Neonatal Service provides the full range of neonatal intensive care, including babies with medical, surgical and cardiology problems. There are currently 18 consultants, supported by a full rota of junior doctors. We have 10 Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners. The team is very friendly and supportive, we have excellent working relationships with our nursing and medical colleagues.
In addition to our neonatal intensive care work, we provide specialist clinics for neonatal chronic lung disease and home oxygen, a neurodevelopment follow up service, clinics for babies with antenatal renal anomalies and multidisciplinary fetal medicine clinics. The service is active in developing, as well as contributing, as a site recruiter to large scale national neonatal clinical research.
We run one of the countries most successful High Fidelity Neonatal Simulation Programs and run regular Resuscitation Council Courses, NLS and the new Advanced Resuscitation of the Newborn Infant (ARNI) Course.
The job plan will be subject to annual review, with any revisions sought by mutual agreement but it is expected that the successful candidate will work with the CMG management team to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and reflect best practice with processes and governance to match - this may require new and flexible ways of working in the future.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
· Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of patients.
· To provide consultant expertise to colleagues in the East Midlands Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (EMNODN), including consultant support to the CenTre Transport Service.
· Participate in neonatal outpatient clinics and developmental follow up.
· To provide resident consultant on call services to the Leicester Royal Infirmary Neonatal Unit, supported by a full team of junior doctors and nurse practitioners.
· To provide educational support and training to our medical, nursing and nurse practitioner colleagues.
· To provide input into the neonatal service governance processes, including audit, management of complaints and production of guidelines.
· To lead MDT discussions and case reviews including input into mortality and morbidity meetings.
· A special interest that complements the existing team would be helpful: opportunities exist in chronic lung disease management, risk management and governance and neurodevelopment follow up.
· To provide neonatal input to our colleagues in fetal medicine.
· To share with colleagues responsibility for the day-to-day management of patients.
· To promote new ways of working and co-ordinating care for patients in the community and to ensure that services are based on effective and integrated partnerships across the health community.
· Take part in multidisciplinary case conferences.
· Supervise and train junior medical staff
· To be involved in appraising and assessing juniors.
· Teaching, research and administration.
· To proactively develop the service.
· To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024