Job overview
Do you share our Health Board values; Caring for each other; Working together; Always improving? If so, we would love for you to come and work for Swansea Bay University HB
The Neonatal unit at Singleton is looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Fellow for a fixed term period of 12 months to commence as soon as possible. The unit is the regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for SW Wales, an area with a birth rate of around 10,000 pa and is a busy level 3 unit. There are 6 fully funded intensive care cots, 8 high dependency cots and 10 special care cots although the unit often works well over its funded capacity and there are plans for further expansion. A dedicated transitional care unit allows as to provide a higher level of care for some babies without separating them from their mother. The unit provides the full range of medical neonatal care from 22 weeks' gestation and above including novel modes of ventilation, HFOV, nitric oxide. We look after 80-100 babies born < 1500 grams a year. Facilities for cerebral function monitoring and therapeutic total body cooling when required, one of the few NICUs in the UK to have the predictive heart rate characteristics monitoring to detect early illness (HeRO). The unit contributes one week in every three to the Welsh Neonatal Transport Service (CHANTS).
Main duties of the job
This post would allow training in either echocardiography or enhanced neurodevelopmental assessment depending on the preference of the applicant. The post allocated dedicated time for supporting professional activities. These will be distributed as follows: The departmental weekly teaching program (Thursday afternoon) The Tuesday 'grand round' The remainder to be delivered flexibly with in the week to allow training and attendance in outpatient clinic activity related to neurodevelopment or echocardiography. It is highly desirable that candidates have previous experience of working in the NHS with knowledge of NHS working practices and systems or equivalent. It would be useful, though not mandatory, to have previous paediatric or neonatal experience. Critical care cot provision is expected to increase following service reconfiguration within the Health Board. We have recently opened a state of the art new transitional care facility and special care area adjacent to the refurbished postnatal ward. The unit is the lead level 3 unit for the SW Wales and functions as part of the Wales Neonatal Network. The unit supports an area with a birth rate of around 10000 deliveries and attracts high risk infants requiring critical care from the local population and elsewhere in the network. In 2018, there were 1719 days of intensive care, 2086 days of high dependency care and 3224 days of special care.
Working for our organisation
Swansea Bay University Health Board has responsibility for the health of around 390,000 people in the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea areas, with a budget of around £1 billion and employing 12,500 people. We are a University Health Board working in partnership with Swansea University, Swansea School of Medicine, the School of Health Science and the Institute of Life Science. The HB has three major hospitals providing a range of services: Morriston and Singleton hospitals in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot hospital in Baglan, Port Talbot.
Mental Health and learning Disabilities services are provided both in hospital settings (Cefn Coed Hospital, Swansea Caswell clinic and Taith Newydd at Glanrhyd Bridgend) and other community settings. We also have community hospital and primary care resource centres providing clinical services outside the main hospitals.
The Health Board is part of A Regional Collaboration for Health (ARCH), which is a partnership with Hywel Dda UHB and Swansea University. Aimed at improving the wellbeing and wealth of Southwest Wales. Swansea is Wales' second largest city and sits on the five-mile sweep of Swansea Bay.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Full GMC/GDC Registration
2. MB BS or recognised equivalent
3. 4 years full-time postgraduate training (or part-time equivalent), at least 2 of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty Or as fixed-term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty OR equivalent experience / competencies
4. Evidence of C.P.D.
5. Newborn life support course within the last three years (or commitment to achieve this within three months of taking up post)
6. Level 2 safeguarding children training (or equivalent). Or commitment to achieve this within three months of taking up post
Desirable criteria
7. Further relevant degree/diploma/teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
8. Evidence of working effectively as a part of a multidisciplinary team
9. At least 6 months full time neonatology on a level 3 unit at level one training
10. commitment to team approach and multidisciplinary working
11. Up to date with current practices in neonatal medicine
12. Working as part of the management team
13. Teaching and training of post/undergraduate medical staff
14. Evidence of participation in, progressing and completing audit
15. Knowledge of research techniques and governance
Desirable criteria
16. Liaison with other agencies
17. Previous experience of working in the NHS/experience of NHS working practices and systems or equivalent.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
18. Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
19. Ability to take independent clinical decisions when necessary and to seek advice from senior doctors as appropriate
20. Ability to manage own time and work load
21. Experience of the assessment of emergencies
22. Able to work as a member of a team or on own
23. Good verbal and written communication skills
24. Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to communicate sensitively with patients, relatives and staff
25. Understanding of information systems and technology
26. Clinical Skills consistent with second on call experience in neonatal care
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
27. Flexible and adaptable to competing demands
28. Ability to travel between sites when required
29. Commitment to modern practices
30. Self motivation and initiative
31. Satisfactory immigration status
32. Satisfactory health clearance
33. Satisfactory police clearance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable