Locum Consultant in Neonates | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 11 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 October 2025 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7386115/361-R2R-2514 |
Summary
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Neonatology department at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and the family feel valued during their visits to the Trust.
This is a whole time equivalent substantive Neonatal consultant post and the successful applicant will share the responsibilities for providing acute neonatal care at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. Outpatient clinics are based at the Lister Hospital and QE 2 Hospital in Welwyn Garden City. Our Neonatal unit is a local neonatal unit (LNU) part of East of England (EOE) Neonatal Network. The post comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs) and includes an on-call commitment of 1:7 exclusive for the Local Neonatal Unit. There is no Acute paediatric commitment to this post.
The post holder will join the existing 6 Neonatal consultants in the delivery of the neonatal care and will participate in 1:7 on call rota for weekdays and weekends. There will be no Acute Paediatric commitments. The consultantresponsibilities include but not limited to:
1. The provision of neonatal inpatient care & outpatient clinics.
2. The development and delivery of the neonatal services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
4. The supervision and training of junior medical staff, including the advanced neonatal nurse practitioner, in the care of babies admitted to the neonatal unit, resuscitation and care of babies in the maternity unit (Consultant Led Unit, Midwife Led Unit and post-natal ward)
5. Be available to advise the maternity team on matters concerning the care of babies
6. Work collaboratively with Acute Paediatric team, Maternity and Nursing team.
7. Clinical governance and compliance with the Trust’s requirements in clinical governance
8. Work collaboratively with clinicians within the East of England Operational Delivery Network (ODN), LMNS, ICB in the planning, delivery and monitoring of neonatal care.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025