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Clinical Fellow - Neonates | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,909 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2025 |
| Location: | Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP |
| Company: | Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7170289/225-DIV1-7170289 |
Summary
This post would be particularly beneficial for those doctors wishing to gain experience in a neonatal intensive care environment prior to applying for training posts, or progressing to higher level fellow role.
Our department has a good track record for supporting clinical fellows through their royal college examinations and into paediatric run through training posts.
This post will provide the opportunity for the post holder to develop skills managing common post natal issues as well as complex care of babies requiring management in a neonatal intensive care unit.
The post holders will be required to contribute to a 48 hour EWTD full shift rota. The remainder of the job plan each week will consist of working in the special care, transitional care and post natal ward environments.
Principal duties of the Clinical part of the post
• To contribute to the high quality care delivered in our neonatal department.
• To work within the on-call junior tier neonatal rota (involving all areas of NICU, postnatal wards, attending deliveries).
• To take part in the governance process and QI project development & completion.
• Study leave to attend courses may be arranged dependent on the needs of the applicant.
• To ensure own practice is up-to-date.
To maintain professional standards and obligations as set out by the General Medical Council
• The neonatal service at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, serves a population of 400,000 with approximately 5500 deliveries each year. The unit has been designated as one of two neonatal intensive care units (NICU) in the SSBC Newborn Network. The Neonatal Unit has 7 intensive care cots, 7 high dependency cots and 10 special care cots. The Unit has a total capacity of 24 cots. The neonatal unit is housed on the first floor of the maternity block. Approximately 20% of births will need medical review; In 2017 1284 babies were admitted to neonatal services, and on average the service delivers 2000 intensive care days per year.
• The Unit has facilities to provide NICU care, including high frequency oscillation and nitric oxide for newborn babies in the network, but also receives babies from neighbouring Networks for cooling and ICU care. General and specialised neonatal surgery, when required, is undertaken at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, as are complex cardiac and other paediatric speciality reviews. There is good liaison with all departments at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and KIDS/NTS teams. Birmingham Children’s Hospital PICU, Surgical and Cardiology teams have provided outreach bedside support to us for complex neonatal babies.
• The unit engages closely with the Obstetric Team at New Cross Hospital, including in perinatal mortality, risk management, maternity and neonatal forums, intrapartum committee meetings and fetal multidisciplinary meetings.
Principal duties of the Clinical part of the post
• To contribute to the high quality care delivered in our neonatal department.
• To work within the on-call junior tier neonatal rota (involving all areas of NICU, postnatal wards, attending deliveries).
• To take part in the governance process and QI project development & completion.
• Study leave to attend courses may be arranged dependent on the needs of the applicant.
• To ensure own practice is up-to-date.
• To maintain professional standards and obligations as set out by the General Medical Council.
This advert closes on Wednesday 14 May 2025