Las St4 in Neonates

**Key tasks will include**:
Working under the supervision of the neonatal consultants and participating in ward rounds in rooms 1, 2 and 3 on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Carrying out ward rounds in rooms 1, 2, 3 and on the Transitional Care Unit and discussing management plans with neonatal consultants.

Attending high risk deliveries occurring anywhere in the maternity centre and providing appropriate newborn resuscitation.

Supporting the junior tier doctors and ANNPs in carrying out examinations on babies who meet the criteria for a paediatric Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) and entering the data onto the SMART4NIPE database.

Supporting and supervising the junior tier doctors and ANNPs in the assessment and management of babies on NICU, the postnatal wards and labour wards.

Completing admission and discharge paperwork on the Badger database for babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Transitional Care Unit.

Communicating with parents of babies on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Transitional Care Unit, postnatal wards and after discharge, as required.

Carrying out investigations on babies on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Transitional Care Unit and postnatal wards, as required, under the supervision of the neonatal consultants.

Carrying out practical procedures, according to level of competence, under the supervision of the neonatal consultants.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

The level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Royal Stoke University Hospital is a lead centre and regional NICU within the Staffordshire, Shropshire and Black Country Newborn Network. The birth population is 7000 deliveries per year. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a purpose built modern unit, which opened in 2009, providing 6 intensive care, 6 high dependency and 14 special care cots. In 2016 we opened a Transitional Care Unit, which has expanded to 10 cots in January 2019. We have 600 NICU admissions and 630 TCU admissions each year, including tertiary referrals from other neonatal units within and outside our newborn network. The unit has facilities for conventional and volume targeted ventilation, HFOV, inhaled nitric oxide, cranial ultrasonography, echocardiography and therapeutic hypothermia. There are facilities for MRI and EEG in ventilated babies and weekday neonatal surgeons on site. The NICU has been awarded a Care Excellence Platinum Award by the trust and has won the Best Training Unit Award in the West Midlands region in 2023

The Neonatal consultant team consists of 9 consultants who all have an area of specialist interest or responsibility. The consultants operate a 2 consultant-of-the-week on-service model and a 1 in 9 on-call rota.

The on-site training opportunities will be the same as that provided to postgraduate doctors in training (PGDiT’s), who are currently on training rotations within the West Midlands School of Paediatrics. The department benefits from an ongoing departmental teaching program with many consultant delivered teaching sessions, and opportunities to participate in the departmental clinical audit and quality improvement activities