Employer University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site LRI/LGH Town Leicester Salary dependent on expereince Closing 14/05/2024 23:59
Consultant in Neonatology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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Job overview
Consultant in Neonatology
There is an exciting opportunity to join the consultant team working for the Leicester Neonatal Service.
This post has been developed to support a planned expansion of neonatal cots and to provide an increase in consultant support to the neonatal service. These posts include a resident on call commitment, working as a resident consultant with 2 middle grade doctors and one ST1-3 doctor.
The Leicester Neonatal Service is currently split across 2 sites. There are currently 42 cots with a plan to incrementally increase to a total of 48 cots over the next 3 years.
The Neonatal Service provides the full range of tertiary neonatal services including care for babies of all gestations, advanced modes of ventilation, neonatal surgery and close working links with the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre and the UK’s largest ECMO service. There are currently around 11,000 deliveries per annum in Leicester. We are the lead perinatal centre for the Central Newborn Network and host the CenTre regional transport service.
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Main duties of the job
The Leicester Neonatal Service provides the full range of neonatal intensive care, including babies with medical, surgical and cardiology problems. There are currently 18 consultants, supported by a full rota of junior doctors. We have 10 Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners. The team is very friendly and supportive, we have excellent working relationships with our nursing and medical colleagues.
In addition to our neonatal intensive care work, we provide specialist clinics for neonatal chronic lung disease and home oxygen, a neurodevelopment follow up service, clinics for babies with antenatal renal anomalies and multidisciplinary fetal medicine clinics. The service is active in developing, as well as contributing, as a site recruiter to large scale national neonatal clinical research.
We run one of the countries most successful High Fidelity Neonatal Simulation Programs and run regular Resuscitation Council Courses, NLS and the new Advanced Resuscitation of the Newborn Infant (ARNI) Course.
The job plan will be subject to annual review, with any revisions sought by mutual agreement but it is expected that the successful candidate will work with the CMG management team to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and reflect best practice with processes and governance to match - this may require new and flexible ways of working in the future.
Working for our organisation
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
* high-quality care for all,
* being a great place to work,
* partnerships for impact, and
* research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
* we are compassionate,
* we are proud,
* we are inclusive, and
* we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of patients.
· To provide consultant expertise to colleagues in the East Midlands Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (EMNODN), including consultant support to the CenTre Transport Service.
· Participate in neonatal outpatient clinics and developmental follow up.
· To provide resident consultant on call services to the Leicester Royal Infirmary Neonatal Unit, supported by a full team of junior doctors and nurse practitioners.
· To provide educational support and training to our medical, nursing and nurse practitioner colleagues.
· To provide input into the neonatal service governance processes, including audit, management of complaints and production of guidelines.
· To lead MDT discussions and case reviews including input into mortality and morbidity meetings.
· A special interest that complements the existing team would be helpful: opportunities exist in chronic lung disease management, risk management and governance and neurodevelopment follow up.
· To provide neonatal input to our colleagues in fetal medicine.
· To share with colleagues responsibility for the day-to-day management of patients.
· To promote new ways of working and co-ordinating care for patients in the community and to ensure that services are based on effective and integrated partnerships across the health community.
· Take part in multidisciplinary case conferences.
· Supervise and train junior medical staff
· To be involved in appraising and assessing juniors.
· Teaching, research and administration.
· To proactively develop the service.
· To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
* • MB BS or Equivalent • Full GMC Registration • Fully Accredited for Higher Specialist Training or will be eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register within 6 months of the interview date. • MRCPCH or Equivalent • Current BLS Certification • Current NLS Certification • If not currently on the Neonatal Subspecialty Register, must have 18 months middle grade experience in neonatal intensive care • Child protection level 3
* • Membership of relevant Specialist Societies or Associations. • Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD or equivalent. • Hold a Neonatal Subspecialty CCT.
Experience / Clinical Skills
* ully trained in Neonatal Medicine • Excellent clinical skills and experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the Job Plan. • Ability to apply sound clinical judgment to problems. • Demonstrates clear, logical thinking / analytical approach. • Willingness to develop skills and experience in areas of interest
* • Evidence of clinical or research commitment and a relevant specialty interest. • Desire to develop skills in echocardiography / POCUS
Management
* • Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and supervise juniors. • Experience of leading teams and awareness of leadership styles. • Ability to effectively organise, prioritise and manage clinical workload. • Understanding of wider health agenda and modern NHS. • Ability to work to overcome barriers to change (negotiating, influencing and persuasion skills). • Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance issues. • Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication with patients and colleagues. • To be empathic and sensitive; capacity to take others perspectives and treat others with understanding. • Highly Developed Emotional Intelligence • Personal integrity and reliability. • Ability to motivate and develop both medical Staff and non-medical staff. • Effective participation in and a commitment to clinical audit. • Participation in a quality improvement programme • Experience of quality improvement work and audit • Understanding and interest in research. • Ability to appraise research critically • Ability to supervise juniors undertaking research projects. • Experience of and a commitment to training/ teaching undergraduate and postgraduates. • Appraisal and assessment skills. • Ability to asses clinical competencies • Enthusiastic and ability to inspire and lead others. Able to demonstrate a commitment and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
* • Evidence of management and administration experience. • Management training on an accredited course. • Awareness of Service Development issues.
Audit/ Quality Improvement
* • Effective participation in and a commitment to clinical audit. • Participation in a quality improvement programme • Experience of quality improvement work and audit
* • Undergone training in teaching and willingness to organise relevant audit activities including quality improvement evidence • Completion of formal courses in Audit and quality improvement. • Published Audit including quality improvement. • Keen to undertake quality improvement activity inline with saving babies lives element 5 (perinatal optimisation)
Teaching
* • Experience of and a commitment to training/ teaching undergraduate and postgraduates. • Appraisal and assessment skills. • Ability to asses clinical competencies • Enthusiastic and ability to inspire and lead others.
* • Willingness to develop new approaches to teaching. • Post Graduate qualification in teaching and training. • Interest and training in delivering simulation • Willingness to lead a simulation programme
Research
* • Understanding and interest in research. • Ability to appraise research critically • Ability to supervise juniors undertaking research projects.
* • Publications in nationally and internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals on subjects relevant to the specialty. • Evidence of recent research and development activity
Additional Information
Please submit yourapplicationform without delay toavoiddisappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
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UHL is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds who match our job criteria.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
UHL is committed to helping colleagues balance the demands of both their work and personal needs through flexible working arrangements wherever reasonably practicable and subject to service needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be deducted from your salary over a three month period commencing on your first month's payment.
The current price of a check is £38 for an enhanced and £18 for a standard check.
Due to the current Covid pandemic we have introduced a staff risk assessment into our pre-employment process. This now forms part of the mandatory pre-employment checks that will be carried out if you receive a conditional offer.
The risk assessment is intended to ensure you are able to safely perform your duties in any of our work areas, and if you have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. Our main aim is to reduce risk and to ensure the safety of all new starters to the Trust as well as current staff, patients and visitors.
If it is identified that you are within a vulnerable category, we will endeavorto make reasonable adjustments to accommodate this through discussions with both Occupational Health and your recruiting manager.
Covid-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We therefore continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated.
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything it does and all that it stands for. We are committed to developing a workforce that is representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from the diverse community of Leicester, Leicester and Rutland, to help deliver healthcare services that meets the needs of our diverse communities.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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