Consultant Neonatologist

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in London is seeking a Consultant Neonatologist to support their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The successful candidate will have clinical responsibilities including conducting inpatient care, supervising junior staff, and managing outpatient neonatal clinics. This position involves cross-site working and on-call duties, aimed at maintaining high standards of care. The role offers an opportunity to work in a leading academic environment, contributing to neonatal research while ensuring continuity of care for vulnerable infants.

Benefits

Supportive academic environment

Collaborative team culture

Comprehensive training opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong clinical commitment to neonatal intensive care.
• Experience in supervising and training junior medical staff.
• Ability to conduct outpatient neonatal clinics.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the administration and development of NICU.
• Supervise and train junior medical staff in neonatal care.
• Conduct daily ward rounds and ensure safety handovers.

Skills

Clinical commitment

Mentorship

Neonatal care

Training junior medical staff

Collaboration with surgical teams

Education

Completion of Medical Training and registration with a medical authority

Job description

Overview

This is a full time consultant post with daytime attending duties and on-call with a frequency of 1:12. The clinical part of this post is a 10 PA post with 8 DCC (including on-calls) and 2 SPA (including lead areas, CPD, teaching, audits and educational supervision). The successful candidate will complement the clinical and administrative roles within the department. The appointee will have strong clinical commitment and form part of a team of 12 WTE including clinical academic members. There is an attending consultant responsible for intensive care, high dependency and special care each week. There is also a fourth attending consultant who is responsible for the postnatal wards. Neonatal outpatient clinics and outpatient antenatal counselling are undertaken during the clinic weeks. The consultants support 27 tier 1/tier 2 doctors and 1 ANNP to ensure the delivery of training, knowledge and skill acquisition, and ensure consultant presence at all shift handovers. Ensuring continuity and consistency of care is a vital responsibility. During the attending weeks covering the neonatal unit, the responsible consultants are expected to conduct daily ward rounds and at least twice daily handovers and safety huddles. The post will contribute fully to the consultant rota and will support the existing workload in neonatal intensive care and following NICU expansion. Cross-site working may be required in line with service needs and job planning.

Responsibilities

• Share responsibility with the existing consultant staff to participate in the administration and development of neonatal intensive care at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital as well as the Postnatal Ward with the service director and consultant colleagues.
• Carry out neonatal outpatient clinics in two of 12 week cycle. These are joint clinics. There is a very well organised, fully comprehensive paediatric outpatient department.
• Supervise and train junior medical staff in the care of sick babies on the Neonatal Unit and in resuscitation of babies on the Labour Ward and in Theatre when on service.
• Share educational supervision, mentorship and induction of junior doctors.
• Offer advice to junior doctors, nurses, midwives, AHPs and referring paediatricians.
• Support the neonatal surgical service and strengthen links with paediatric surgeons.
• Advise local general practitioners and midwives in matters relating to infant care and provide teaching as required.
• Undertake in-hospital training/teaching of medical staff, nursing staff and midwifery staff.
• Support child psychology and social services staff in the weekly Family Matters Meeting and support discharge planning with the neonatal community liaison team and outreach neonatal community service.

Service context

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint an enthusiastic and capable Consultant Neonatologist to support the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Chelsea and Westminster site. The successful candidate will join an experienced and forward-thinking Consultant team, with a leading academic Neonatal research department as part of Imperial College London. The post includes non-resident on-call duties at the Chelsea and Westminster site, but occasionally the post-holder may be required to fulfil resident on-calls. The Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC) will take place on 18th March 2026. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites – Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

Organisation notes

• We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
• We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
• We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
• We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
• We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
• We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from birth to end of life

Chelsea and Westminster has one of the two neonatal intensive care units in the North West London Neonatal Operational Delivery Network, and is the designated unit for neonatal surgery. The neonatal unit is one of the largest in London with 37 cots comprising 12 ITU, 12 HDU and 13 SCBU commissioned cots, with 12 ITU/12 HDU operational capacity. The unit currently looks after approximately 600 babies and has a combined 6,600 ITU/HDU bed days a year. Transitional care is delivered on the postnatal ward. There are 11 NHS consultant neonatologists (including this post), and 4 academics including three Professors of Neonatal Medicine and a Clinical Senior Lecturer.

Notes: Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful. In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post. During the recruitment process your identity documentation will be scanned. Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.