Consultant in Neonatology
1 month ago
Job summary
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint an enthusiastic and capable Consultant Neonatologist to support the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Chelsea and Westminster site.
The successful candidate will join an experienced and forward-thinking Consultant team, with a leading academic Neonatal research department as part of Imperial College London.
The post includes non-resident on-call duties at the Chelsea and Westminster site, but the post-holder may be required to fulfil a resident on-call pattern for a period of time prior to the completion of a consultation.
The Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC) will take place on 30th July 2024
Main duties of the job
This is a full time non-resident consultant post with day time clinical duties. The clinical part of this post is an 11 PA post with DCC (including on-calls) and SPA (including lead areas, CPD, teaching, audits). It envisaged that the successful candidates will complement the clinical and administrative roles within the department. The appointee will have strong clinical commitment and form part of a team of 6 WTE equivalents (including 1 X WTE and 2 X WTE clinical academic lecturers). There is a separate rota of 6 resident consultants who work a combination of day and night clinical duties and shared one of the 7 attending slots.
There is attending consultant responsible for intensive care, high dependency and special care each week. There is also a fourth attending consultant who is responsible for the postnatal wards, neonatal outpatient clinics and antenatal counselling.
The consultants support 22 tier 1/tier 2 doctors and 1 ANNP to ensure the delivery of training, knowledge and skill acquisition, and ensure consultant presence at all shift handovers. Ensuring continuity and consistency of care is a vital responsibility. During the attending weeks covering the neonatal unit, the responsible consultants are expected to conduct daily ward rounds and at least twice daily handovers.
The post will contribute fully to the consultant rota and will support the existing workload in neonatal intensive care and following NICU expansion.
About us
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in have two main acute hospital sites--Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteerso We treat someone in A&E every 90 secondso We deliver a baby every 50 minuteso We operate on a patient every 16 minuteso We do 50 imaging procedures each houro We serve a diverse population of million from the beginning to the end of life
Chelsea and Westminster has one of the two neonatal intensive care units in the North West London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network, and is the designated unit for neonatal surgery. The neonatal unit is one of the largest in London with 37 cots comprising 12 ITU, 12 HDU and 13 SCBU commissioned cots, with 12 ITU/12 HDU operational capacity. The unit currently looks after approximately 600 babies and has a combined 6,600 ITU/HDU bed days a year. Transitional care is delivered on the postnatal ward. There are 11 NHS consultant neonatologists (including this post), and 4 academics including three Professors of Neonatal Medicine and a Clinical Senior Lecturer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will share responsibility with the existing consultant staff to:
Participate in the administration and development of neonatal intensive care at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital as well as the Postnatal Ward with the service director and consultant colleagues.
Carry out up to 4 neonatal out-patient clinics in each 7 week cycle (in weeks SCBU and PNW). These are joint clinics. There is a very well organised, fully comprehensive paediatric outpatient department. One tier 1 and one tier 2 grade trainee are in attendance but essentially for teaching purposes.
Clinically supervise and train junior medical staff in the care of sick babies on the Neonatal Unit and in resuscitation of babies on the Labour Ward and in Theatre when on service.
Share educational supervision, mentorship and induction of junior doctors.
Offer advice to junior doctors, nurses, midwives, AHPs and referring paediatricians
Support the neonatal surgical service and further strengthen the links with the paediatric surgeons.
Advise local general practitioners and midwives in matters relating to infant care and provide teaching as required.
Undertake in-hospital training/teaching of medical staff, nursing staff and midwifery staff.
Support child psychology and social services staff in the weekly Family Matters Meeting and support discharge planning with the neonatal community liaison team and 7 day outreach neonatal community service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Full GMC registration On specialist register with CCT Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) or equivalent MRCPH or equivalent Good understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council
Desirable
PhD, MD or other Higher degree
Experience
Essential
Wide training in neonatal paediatrics Experience in neonatal brain scanning Understands and demonstrates use of key concepts of clinical governance Experience of teaching to meet the requirements of junior doctors and nurses
Desirable
Research experience Experience of working as a consultant neonatologist in a tertiary centre Evidence of a special interest and expertise that complements those of other consultants in the department and is consistent with the Trust service strategy
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to put management theory into practice Leadership, negotiating and influencing skills Willingness and ability to act as part of a multidisciplinary team Able to work on own initiative Works well in an MDT setting with all groups
Personal Qualities
Essential
Demonstrable evidence of being able and willing to understand our Trust values of respect, kindness, excellence and safety, with behaviour which reinforces these values An enthusiastic and inspirational leader Committed to equal opportunities Requirement to live within 30 minutes of hospital in line with direct clinical care needs-
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