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We have a fixed term clinical fellow post on the tier 1 (SHO) level for 1 year at Birmingham Women’s Site of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, one of the busiest tertiary maternity and neonatal clinical and academic centers in the West Midlands. The Neonatal Service is a Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Referral unit within the South West Midlands Neonatal Network and provides experience in all modern treatment modalities. The hospital is the Perinatal Centre for the West Midlands. There are 8200 deliveries annually including a significant proportion of high risk cases. The Regional Fetal Medicine and Genetics Services are on site and there are close links with Neonatal Surgery at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, with pre and postoperative surgical neonates and preoperative cardiac cases managed at BWH. The Neonatal Unit currently has 12 intensive care, 9 high dependency and 20 special care cots which run at 100 % occupancy for most of the time, plus 16 Transitional care cots providing a busy and varied service. There are plentiful Educational and Research opportunities on site and particular interests will be facilitated.

Applications are invited for the post of tier 1 clinical fellow within the department of Neonates on the SHO grade rota.

The Clinical Fellow will undertake clinical commitments to support the clinical neonatal service.

Each post holder will work a 1 in 12 rota of prospective cover of the clinical service. There will be time available for education work and unit clinical, management and educational meetings. This is a non-training post.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.

Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.