Junior Clinical Fellow in Neonatology

Cencora | Pharma solutions; Burnley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley is a purpose-built Level 3 Neonatal Unit that became operational in mid-November 2010. All maternity and neonatal inpatient care is centralized.

This Junior Clinical Fellow position is based in Neonatology and is available due to a rota gap, as the previous fellow has moved to another hospital. The Neonatal Unit at ELHT has 9 substantive consultants. The post is based at Burnley General Hospital.

The post holder will join the first on-call team, which includes 8 FY2 trainees, 1 Paediatric ST trainee, 7 ANNPs, and 5 clinical fellows. It offers excellent experience and training in both acute and outpatient settings, with participation in a full shift rota that complies with the new junior doctors' contract. The rota involves 15 people, with 2 out-of-hours staff, including weekends.

The development of a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care service for East Lancashire was approved in June 2006. Since November 2010, the neonatal services at Blackburn and Burnley have merged into a single East Lancs Level 3 service. The new unit is state-of-the-art and designed to the highest BAPM standards.

The Neonatal Unit at LWNC has 6 intensive care cots, 8 high dependency cots, and 20 special care cots, with a total capacity of 34 cots, including 2 isolation cots. It serves a delivery rate of approximately 6,500 per year across three birthing centers in the conurbation, with around 5,000 high-risk deliveries at the hospital site and 1,500 managed in community-based centers.

The neonatal transport and retrieval service (STARS) has transitioned to the Northwest footprint as CONNECT NW. The NTU (Neonatal Triage Unit) at the postnatal ward entrance addresses postnatal issues for babies needing review but not necessarily NICU admission. The Transitional Care (TC) Unit, located adjacent to the postnatal wards, supports 12 cots with staffing from neonatal nurses and experienced midwives.

A consultant ophthalmologist provides screening for retinopathy of prematurity across East Lancs. Neonatal consultants also run antenatal advisory services for prospective parents when abnormalities are detected in utero, and the new appointee may contribute to these services.

The obstetric service at LWNC is provided by 18 consultants, offering antenatal care at Blackburn, Rossendale, Accrington, and LWNC. Services include ultrasound scans (dating, nuchal translucency, anomaly scans), a Level 3 fetal anomaly scan service, multiple pregnancy clinics, and medical antenatal clinics on both hospital sites.