Senior Clinical Fellow in Neonatology | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £65,048 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | burnley, BB10 2PQ |
| Company: | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7340875/435-MQ88-25 |
Summary
We invite applications for a Senior Clinical Fellow post at the Lancashire Women's and Newborns level 3 Neonatal Unit (Burnley General Hospital). We are looking to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Clinical Fellow. This post offers a fantastic opportunity for doctors training in paediatrics/neonatology to gain a broad based experience in neonatal critical care at a Level 3 neonatal unit.
This post is 1 WTE for 12 months in the first instance to commence in August/September.
The successful applicant will join our fantastic team of Consultants, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Fellows, Deanery Trainees and Allied Health Professionals.
Duties will be in the neonatal department on the Tier 2 rota.
There will be a mixture of long day/night shifts and shorter day shifts. Duties will be divided between Intensive/High Dependency Care, Special and Transitional Care and the care of infants on the post-natal wards.
Duties will be shared with resident trainees [ST3-8] and Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and supervision and education will be provided by Consultants.
The selected candidate will work as part of the Tier Two rota within NICU and will be responsible for clinical care of patients, the recording of notes (including Badger), communication with parents and colleagues and all other responsibilities of a resident doctor in the department.
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides a caring service to a population of 550,000 in the Pennine Lancashire area. Services are provided from our two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital and from our community rehabilitation wards at Pendle Community Hospital, Accrington Victoria Hospital and Clitheroe Community Hospi
We treat almost 700,000 patients every year in our hospitals and community settings, using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. We provide a full range of acute hospital and adult community services and we are a specialist centre for hepatobiliary, head and neck and urological cancer services, robotic assisted surgery, specialist cardiology services and we are also a network provider of Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care. We are a nationally accredited Centre for Endometriosis and Uro-Gynaecology Surgery.
Our Blackburn site is the centre for all acute services in East Lancashire
Burnley General Teaching Hospital is the site for the East Lancashire Women’s and Newborn Centre and is the largest in-patient consultant led obstetric unit in the North West. There is also a midwife-led birthing unit off the Hospital site in Blackburn.
- Attending to neonates admitted to the Neonates Unit.
- Conducting ward rounds.
- Assisting and supervising the Tier 1 (ST1-2/FY2) doctors in managing cases, attending or admitted to the NICU.
- Tier 2 on call duties out of hours for neonatal emergencies and continuation of care of patients on the NICU.
- Attending deliveries of extremely premature neonates, high risk deliveries and their immediate and after care management on the NICU.
- Communication with parents.
- Supervised outpatient clinical duties.
- Cover for unexpected short term sickness of colleague.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Aug 2025