Overview
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Locum Consultant in Neonates
The closing date is 05 October 2025
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Neonatology department at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and the family feel valued during their visits to the Trust.This is a whole time equivalent substantive Neonatal consultant post and the successful applicant will share the responsibilities for providing acute neonatal care at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. Outpatient clinics are based at the Lister Hospital and QE 2 Hospital in Welwyn Garden City. Our Neonatal unit is a local neonatal unit (LNU) part of East of England (EOE) Neonatal Network. The post comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs) and includes an on-call commitment of 1:7 exclusive for the Local Neonatal Unit. There is no Acute paediatric commitment to this post.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join the existing 6 Neonatal consultants in the delivery of the neonatal care and will participate in 1:7 on call rota for weekdays and weekends. There will be no Acute Paediatric commitments. The consultant responsibilities include but not limited to:
1. The provision of neonatal inpatient care & outpatient clinics.
2. The development and delivery of the neonatal services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
3. The supervision and training of junior medical staff, including the advanced neonatal nurse practitioner, in the care of babies admitted to the neonatal unit, resuscitation and care of babies in the maternity unit (Consultant Led Unit, Midwife Led Unit and post-natal ward)
4. Be available to advise the maternity team on matters concerning the care of babies
5. Work collaboratively with Acute Paediatric team, Maternity and Nursing team.
6. Clinical governance and compliance with the Trust's requirements in clinical governance
7. Work collaboratively with clinicians within the East of England Operational Delivery Network (ODN), LMNS, ICB in the planning, delivery and monitoring of neonatal care.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job responsibilities
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register / and Full GMC registration with a Licence to Practice
* MBBS and MRCPCH or qualification of an equivalent level
* Paediatric CCT with the interest in Neonatology, should have done SPIN training (12-18 months) in Neonates (or equivalent) at Registrar level or senior level
* Interest in Paediatric and Neonatal cardiology and ability to perform Echocardiogram (ECHO).
Experience
* Broad range of experience in Neonatology and General Paediatrics training/experience at Registrar level
* Minimum of 12-18 months neonatal experience in a level 3 unit (Tertiary) at Registrar level or senior level OR At least 2 years' experience at registrar level or senior level working in a local Neonatal unit (LNU)
* Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
* Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
* Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
* NLS/ARNI provider
* Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidencebased practice and clinical quality improvement initiatives
* Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals. NLS course instructor
* Demonstrable experience and participation in research
Skills
* Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
* Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
* Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
* Ability to effectively teach clinical skills
* Ability to critically appraise published evidence
Knowledge
* Demonstrate understanding of basic principles of audit, evidence-based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
* Comprehensive knowledge and insight regarding all the domains within the GMC standards of Good Medical Practice
Other Requirements
* Demonstrates an interest and commitment to the specialty
* Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
* Role model our Trust values every day
* Understands and can demonstrate the values of the NHS constitution
* Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs
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.
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