Locum Consultant Neonatologist

2 weeks ago

Burnley, United Kingdom East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Applications are invited for 1 Locum Neonatal Consultant post based at the Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre, Burnley, which is part of the Lancashire and S Cumbria Neonatal Network.

The purpose built, state of the art, Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley has been built to BAPM specification. The unit is funded for 14 ITU/HDU cots and 20 Special care cots resulting in a 34 cot Neonatal unit. The unit caters for a birth rate of ~6700 deliveries per year. The NICU at LWNC offers Level 3 care for babies needing ongoing medical intensive care at all gestations, including those born at borderline threshold of viability. The unit provides a full range of specialist neonatal services including all modes of invasive and non-invasive ventilation (volume guarantee, pressure support and HFOV), therapeutic cooling and inhaled nitric oxide. The unit has onsite facilities for Cranial Ultrasound and Neonatal Echocardiography.

The medical Neonatal team is led by 10 WTE Consultant Neonatologists. The successful candidate will contribute to a 1 in 9 Consultant rota. The Middle grade team has a full complement of 9 middle grade tier personnel including 4 Specialist Registrars, 2 senior Clinical Fellows and 3 ANNPs. The first tier rota has 15 staff and runs as a 2 person rota out of hours rota. This comprises 8 FY2 Doctors, 1 Paediatric ST trainee, 2 WTE Clinical fellow posts and 4 ANNPs, with 2 further ANNPs in training.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to provide a patient centred service, respecting the privacy, dignity and choice of individual patients. They will be responsible with Consultant Neonatal colleagues for the provision of inpatient neonatal services within the East Lancashire Hospital Trust. The post holder will aim to deliver high quality neonatal care with the help of the existing Neonatal Team. The post holder will assist consultant colleagues in the continued development of a consultant led approach to Neonatal paediatrics. The post holder will share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the team. The post holder will be the hot week Consultant 1 in 8 including 1 in 8 weekends The post holder will run Consultant clinics at both Blackburn and Burnley sites

About us

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 Hospital

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.

The development of a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care service for East Lancashire was approved by the Lancs/ S. Cumbria SHA in June 2006.

The 2 neonatal services at Blackburn and Burnley came together as an East Lancs Level 3 service from Nov 2010. The new Unit is a purpose built, state of the art build, designed to the highest specifications as per BAPM standards.

The Neonatal Unit at LWNC has 6 intensive care cots, 8 high dependency cots and 20 special care cots with a total cot capacity of 34 cots. In addition there are 2 isolation cots.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to provide a patient centred service, respecting the privacy, dignity and choice of individual patients. They will be responsible with Consultant Neonatal colleagues for the provision of inpatient neonatal services within the East Lancashire Hospital Trust. The post holder will aim to deliver high quality neonatal care with the help of the existing Neonatal Team. The post holder will assist consultant colleagues in the continued development of a consultant led approach to Neonatal paediatrics. The post holder will share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the team. The post holder will be the hot week Consultant 1 in 8 including 1 in 8 weekends The post holder will run Consultant clinics at both Blackburn and Burnley sites Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Full registration with General Medical Council 2 year relevant clinical neonatal experience in busy Neonatal tertiary Unit and relevant allied specialty Paediatric CCT/CESR with Neonatal interest or likely to achieve within 6 months of appointment MRCPCH or equivalent NLS Provider

Desirable

Neonatal CCT NLS Instructor

Person Specification

Essential

Two or more years training/experience in Neonatology at regional/level 3 units/allied specialties Experience and training in child protection. Attendance at appropriate professional meetings and courses

Experience

Essential

Management of wide range of Neonatal problems including care of complex medical and surgical babies. Experience in newer modalities of ventilation HFO, inhaled nitric oxide etc. Evidence of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and commitment to these within the Trust Understanding and experience of performing audit during general professional and higher specialist training Awareness of basic research methods Familiarity with evidence based practice

Desirable

Experience in volume ventilation, Echo skills Attendance at courses in teaching, appraisal and mentorship Experience of organising teaching programmes or events Previous research projects/publications

Continuing Professional Development

Essential

Clear commitment to lifelong learning Experience of evidence based medicine Ability to keep up to date in the speciality IT skills

Desirable

Membership of appropriate post graduate societies

Management

Essential

Understanding of current NHS management systems including clinical governance and risk management Attendance at management meetings Division of Child Health

Desirable

Attendance at appropriate management courses Previous participation in a management role Experience in appraisal and mentoring

Personal Skills

Essential

Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients, their parents and other relatives and with colleagues and staff in all disciplines Experience of supervision of junior staff Ability to lead the development of services and support best practice amongst colleagues Ability to work in a team with professional colleagues both medical and from other disciplines Flexible approach to working practices

Desirable

Attendance at Death/Bereavement or Breaking News workshops and Counselling courses Evidence of development of leadership within the work environment

Circumstances

Essential

Agree to live within 30 minutes of the Trust Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post (access to own transport required)

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