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Locum Consultant Neonatologist | Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 29 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £99,532 - £131,964 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 June 2024 |
| Location: | Romford, RM7 0AG |
| Company: | Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6352271/162-0642-UE |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Neonatology Consultant Team at BHRUT. The successful candidate for this locum post will work within a team of neonatologists and paediatricians to deliver high quality services to our large local population, across the Boroughs of Havering, Barking and Dagenham, and Redbridge.
Contributing your expertise across inpatient and outpatient areas, this role will stretch and challenge you, give you opportunity to pass on your knowledge to junior medical staff who are keen to learn, as well as delivering enormous job satisfaction to the candidate who is looking to grow their skill, practice and experience.
Locum Consultant Neonatologist
The successful applicant will be responsible for running the neonatal service at BHRUT with the existing neonatal consultants working with the multidisciplinary team. Post holder will join the current consultant team to make the rota 1:7 and work within the team job plan, as summarised below.
· 1 Hot week in NICU (covers Labour ward)
· 1 Hot week in SC1
· · 1 week in SC2/PNW
· · 4 weeks for Clinics/SPA/APA
· · On Call Rota 1:7
· · DCC (NICU/LW/SC/PNW/Clinic/Admin/on-call) – 10 PA
· · Personal SPA – 1.5PA
· · Clinical governance – 0.5PA
· · Total programmed activities - 12 PA
Consultants are expected to undertake twice daily ward rounds on the neonatalunit. The hot-week consultant holds the crash bleep and attends neonatal emergencies. During non-hot-weeks, consultants undertake clinics and administrative tasks. During these weeks consultants also provide teaching and training to juniors, update guidelines, undertake audits and clinical governance activities etc.
Consultants also attend departmental meetings, link meetings, serious incident review meetings, perinatal quality and safety meetings, mortality and morbidity meetings etc. The successful postholder will be expected to attend and represent neonatal unit in such meetings as per rota.
We provide care for the residents of three diverse London boroughs. Most of our 7,800 permanent staff live in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. We also provide healthcare services to people in south west Essex, and specialist neurosciences services to the whole of the county.
Our services include all the major specialties of large acute hospitals and we operate from two main sites - King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023. We also provide outpatient services at Brentwood Community Hospital, Barking Community Hospital, Loxford Polyclinic, and Harold Wood Polyclinic.
We’re pleased to be leading the way inreducing the time our patientswait to get the treatment they need. The Elective Surgical Hub at King George Hospital is one of eight to beaccredited as part of a national scheme; the Care Quality Commission has raised the ratings for urgent and emergency care at Queen’s and King George hospitals; and data released by NHS England showed that the Trust was the most improved in 2023 for reducing waits for emergency care.
We are particularly proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre; Radiotherapy Centre; Hyper Acute Stroke Unit; and dedicated breast care service at King George Hospital. We’re also part of theNorth East London Cancer Alliance.
The successful applicant will be responsible for running the neonatal service at BHRUT with the existing neonatal consultants working with the multidisciplinary team.
Post holder will join the current consultant team to make the rota 1:7 and work within the team job plan, as summarised below.
The post holder will be expected to support the neonatal lead with clinical governance, perinatal optimisation and safety champion activities.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Jun 2024
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