Consultant Neonatologist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job description

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Neonatal Unit at St. George's Hospital is a neonatal intensive care unit (Level 3) with neonatal surgery and is one of the three lead centres in South London. The appointee will participate in the delivery of safe, high quality neonatal services for local and network babies at St George's as outlined by British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM), the NHS Long Term Plan and the Consultant Contract. The post holder will have special interests and expertise to complement that of the consultant group.

Main duties of the job

Duties are divided pro rata based on clinical professional activities (PA's). This post will be remunerated at a rate of 10 PA's per week although the number of PA's worked each week will vary depending on attending duties, which are shared between the consultant group.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Duties:

Intensive Care weeks: The attending consultant has continuing responsibility for care of both medical and surgical patients in their charge, including all babies in intensive care and the isolation room.

High-dependency Care weeks: The attending consultant has continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge including all babies in the high dependency area on the unit.

Special Care weeks: The appointee will participate in providing cover for special care babies, transitional care and the postnatal wards.

Non-attending weeks: The appointee will undertake appropriate administrative and clinical duties associated with the running of the clinical department.

Clinic: There is a once weekly neonatal follow-up clinic, staffed by two neonatal consultants and a middle grade doctor. Once a month, there are high-risk neonatal graduates where higher risk infants have a detailed scored neurodevelopmental assessment. The post holder will have an interest in neurodevelopment and cover the neurodevelopmental graduate clinics together with the lead consultant for neurodevelopment and another consultant with neurodevelopmental expertise. The post holder will also cover several other Wednesday neonatal follow up clinics.

Out of hours of cover: On call will be 1:11.1 with prospective cover allowing for colleagues leave.

The post holder will be expected to lead Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) case reviews and PMRT, Child Death Review (CDR) report writing as part of at least four neonatal consultants contributing to a core mortality governance group.

Non-clinical duties

Leadership & Management: All consultants take an active role in the leadership and management of the clinical service, attend regular multidisciplinary meetings and lead defined areas of the service. SPA responsibilities will complement those of the team.

The successful candidate will participate in the Trusts system of governance and audit and to observe the Trusts agreed policies and procedures, drawn up in consultation with the profession on clinical matters, and to follow the standing orders and financial instructions of the Trust.

Education: All consultants actively support multi-professional and undergraduate education within the department. It is expected that the post holder will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

CPD, Appraisal and Job-planning: All consultants are expected to regularly update their professional knowledge and to maintain a portfolio of evidence for CPD. They will also have a commitment to participate in the Trusts mandatory and statutory training (MAST). The post holder will be supported to develop the required skills in educational supervision.

Research: Applicants with a comprehensive research portfolio who can lead new projects on the neonatal unit will be welcome.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MRCPCH/MRCP (or equivalent)
• MD
• Higher medical or related degree

Certification

• Registration with GMC and on the Specialist Register CCST or CCT in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) or equivalent, (or eligible for CCST/CCT and registration within 6 months of interview)
• Child Safeguarding level 3 training

Expertise

• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for a wide variety of neonatal illness, including care of surgical neonates
• Advanced technical skills in neonatal medicine
• Experience in neonatal follow-up programmes
• Ability to advise on the efficient and smooth running of a specialist service
• Family integrated care experience.
• Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Formal training in teaching skills
• Higher qualification in medical education
• Appraisal and assessment training and skills
• Clinical interests to complement current medical staff
• Neonatal intensive care sub specialist area of expertise
• Experience conducting Bayley Scales neurodevelopmental assessments independently.

Research

• Author of publications in peer reviewed journals
• Presentation to learned societies
• Lead author in research publications
• Lead investigator in clinical study
• Higher research degree (PhD/ MD)
• Research group collaboration and leadership
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Evidence of management skills
• Good understanding of the structure and processes of the NHS
• Attendance at management course
• Formal Management and Leadership training

Clinical Governance

• Understanding of Clinical Governance & Risk
• Evidence of involvement in multi-disciplinary Governance, Risk and Audit

Personal skills

• Commitment to continuing CPD, teaching and educational supervision
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to develop excellent working relationships with neonatal team and new team
• Caring attitude to patients
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Formal leadership training

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro rata