Main area Neonatology Grade Senior Clinical Fellow Contract 12 months (fixed term) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (1 in 9 on call rota) Job ref 435-MQ88-25
Employer East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Burnley General Hospital Town burnley Salary £65,048 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/08/2025 23:59
Senior Clinical Fellow in Neonatology
Senior Clinical Fellow
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
We invite applications for a Senior Clinical Fellow post at the Lancashire Women's and Newborns level 3 Neonatal Unit (Burnley General Hospital). We are looking to appoint a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Clinical Fellow. This post offers a fantastic opportunity for doctors training in paediatrics/neonatology to gain a broad based experience in neonatal critical care at a Level 3 neonatal unit.
This post is 1 WTE for 12 months in the first instance to commence in August/September.
The successful applicant will join our fantastic team of Consultants, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Fellows, Deanery Trainees and Allied Health Professionals.
Main duties of the job
Duties will be in the neonatal department on the Tier 2 rota.
There will be a mixture of long day/night shifts and shorter day shifts. Duties will be divided between Intensive/High Dependency Care, Special and Transitional Care and the care of infants on the post-natal wards.
Duties will be shared with resident trainees [ST3-8] and Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and supervision and education will be provided by Consultants.
The selected candidate will work as part of the Tier Two rota within NICU and will be responsible for clinical care of patients, the recording of notes (including Badger), communication with parents and colleagues and all other responsibilities of a resident doctor in the department.
Working for our organisation
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 Hospi
We treat almost 700,000 patients every year in our hospitals and community settings, using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. We provide a full range of acute hospital and adult community services and we are a specialist centre for hepatobiliary, head and neck and urological cancer services, robotic assisted surgery, specialist cardiology services and we are also a network provider of Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care. We are a nationally accredited Centre for Endometriosis and Uro-Gynaecology Surgery.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Attending to neonates admitted to the Neonates Unit.
- Conducting ward rounds.
- Assisting and supervising the Tier 1 (ST1-2/FY2) doctors in managing cases, attending or admitted to the NICU.
- Tier 2 on call duties out of hours for neonatal emergencies and continuation of care of patients on the NICU.
- Attending deliveries of extremely premature neonates, high risk deliveries and their immediate and after care management on the NICU.
- Communication with parents.
- Supervised outpatient clinical duties.
- Cover for unexpected short term sickness of colleague.
Person specification
* MRCPCH-Part 1
* • Satisfactory completion of previous training with experience of at least 6 months working in Level 3 Neonatal unit
* • Management of wide range of conditions in neonatal medicine
* • Competent and confident in practical skills in form of Neonatal intubations, insertion of Neonatal umbilical lines and long lines.
* • Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate doctors
* • Understanding of and experience of performing audits
* • Familiarity with evidence based practice.
* • Experience of enrolling patients into research projects
* • Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients, their parents and other relatives and with colleagues and staff in all disciplines.
* • Ability to supervise and support junior staff
* • Awareness of own limitations, ability to seek help when needed
* • Ability to work in a team with professional colleagues both medical and from other disciplines
* • Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post
* • Six months or more experience of working in Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit in middle grade capacity
* NLS instructor
* Teaching certificate
* Successful audit cycle completion and or presentation at regional meetings
* Good Clinical Practice (GCP) certified
Dear Potential Applicant,
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* Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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Name Rajasri Seethamraju Job title Consultant Telephone number 01282 803196
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