Consultant Neonatologist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Brighton, Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Buddy system

Staff networks

Job summary

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust seeks a substantive consultant in the Neonatal Service within Women & Children at RSUH and PRH. The post involves consultant-led intensive, high-dependency and special care, alongside on-call, antenatal and neonatal transport duties.

The role sits in the Trevor Mann Baby Unit, emphasising family-integrated and multidisciplinary working, with scope for a specialist interest.

Qualifications

• Basic medical degree required.
• MRCPCH or recognised equivalent.
• Full GMC registration with licence to practise, or eligible within six months of interview.
• UK-trained: CCT in Paediatrics with neonatal credentials, or within six months of interview date.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant-led neonatal intensive, high-dependency, and transitional care across RSCH and PRH.
• Lead consultant ward rounds, multidisciplinary reviews, handovers and family meetings.
• Attend and supervise high-risk deliveries and neonatal resuscitation.
• Provide antenatal counselling when neonatal admission or prematurity is anticipated.
• Undertake neonatal follow-up and other specialist clinics.
• Contribute to neonatal transport activity according to competence and service needs.
• Work with maternity, fetal medicine, paediatric surgery, radiology, cardiology and other teams.
• Promote Family Integrated Care, shared decision-making and equitable access.
• Maintain accurate documentation and timely patient administration.
• Take part in morbidity/mortality review, governance, incident learning and audit.
• Support guideline development, evidence-based practice and learning from deaths.
• Contribute to education, quality improvement, research and service development.

Skills

Neonatal resuscitation

Invasive ventilation

Therapeutic hypothermia

Surgical neonates care

Clinical risk management

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Equality awareness

Teaching

Audit participation

Education

MRCPCH or recognised equivalent

Tools

Echocardiography

Cranial ultrasound

Job description

A substantive consultant post in the Neonatal Service within Women & Children at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder provides consultant-led intensive, high-dependency and special care at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital, alongside on-call, antenatal, follow-up clinic and neonatal transport work. The role sits in a tertiary unit at the Trevor Mann Baby Unit and emphasises family-integrated and multidisciplinary working, with scope for a specialist interest. Full GMC registration with a licence to practise is required, plus a paediatric CCT with neonatal credentials for UK-trained applicants.

What the job involves

• Provide consultant-led neonatal intensive, high-dependency, special and transitional/postnatal care across RSCH and PRH
• Lead consultant ward rounds, multidisciplinary reviews, handovers and family meetings
• Attend and supervise high-risk deliveries and neonatal resuscitation
• Provide antenatal counselling where neonatal admission, prematurity, congenital anomaly or neonatal surgery is anticipated
• Undertake neonatal follow-up and other agreed specialist clinics
• Contribute to neonatal transport advice and activity in line with competence, service need and job plan
• Work with maternity, fetal medicine, paediatric surgery, radiology, cardiology, ophthalmology, pharmacy, pathology, community and network colleagues
• Promote Family Integrated Care, shared decision-making, compassionate communication and equitable access
• Keep accurate clinical documentation, coding and timely correspondence, and complete patient administration within DCC time
• Take part in morbidity and mortality review, governance meetings, incident review, complaints learning, audit and clinical effectiveness
• Support guideline development, evidence-based practice, risk management and learning from deaths
• Contribute to education, quality improvement, research and service development

What’s required

Qualifications

• Basic medical degree
• MRCPCH or recognised equivalent

Registration & licences

• Full GMC registration with licence to practise, or eligible for registration within six months of interview
• UK-trained: CCT in Paediatrics with neonatal medicine credentials, or within six months of receiving it by interview date
• Non-UK trained: qualifications confirmed equivalent to UK CCT by GMC by AAC date

Experience

• Higher specialist training and substantial experience in tertiary neonatal intensive care
• Experience of neonatal follow-up, antenatal counselling and multidisciplinary working
• Appropriate career progression to date

Skills & knowledge

• Competence in neonatal resuscitation, invasive and high-frequency ventilation, therapeutic hypothermia and care of surgical neonates
• Understanding of clinical risk management
• Experience and ability to work in multi-professional teams
• Evidence of own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
• Evidence of an interest and commitment to teaching
• Evidence of participation in audit

Nice to have

• Higher degree (MD, PhD or MSc)
• Completed NTN neonatology training programme
• ARNI provider or instructor, or other accreditation or leadership qualification
• Neonatal transport experience
• Echocardiography or cranial ultrasound expertise
• Complementary specialist interest aligned to service priorities
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Research experience, publications, prizes and honours

What’s offered

• Membership of staff networks
• Buddy to help new starters settle in