Neonatal Consultants

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant in Neonatal Medicine to deliver neonatal intensive and high dependency care, contribute to regional networks and participate in an on-call rota. The role is based at John Radcliffe Hospital within the Newborn Care Services, with potential work across OUH locations.

The post requires GMC registration, CCT in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) or CESR and leadership experience in a teaching hospital.

Qualifications

• Full GMC with licence to practice.
• MRCPCH or equivalent.
• Entry on GMC Specialist Register with CCT in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) OR CESR in neonates OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview.
• Instructor in Neonatal Life Support.
• Transport Training.
• Higher medical degree.

Responsibilities

• Attend duties covering neonatal intensive/high dependency/low dependency care and outpatient follow-up.
• Provide clinical support to the Regional Newborn Transport Service (SONeT) and Neonatal Network (Thames Valley & Wessex Neonatal ODN).
• Participate in a non-resident emergency nighttime on-call service for the neonatal unit with a second on-call system for transport.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Organisation skills

Communication skills

Education

MRCPCH or equivalent

GMC Specialist Register with CCT in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) OR CESR

Higher medical degree

Instructor in Neonatal Life Support

Job description

Main duties of the job

1. JOB TITLE: Consultant in Neonatal Medicine

2. GRADE: Consultant

DEPARTMENT: Newborn Care Services

Children’s Directorate

3. ACCOUNTABLE TO: Amit Gupta, Clinical Lead, Newborn Care Services

Alex Lee, Clinical Director, Department Paediatrics

4. PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES :

The postholder’s duties will be primarily at John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.

Clinical

The post includes attending duties covering neonatal intensive /high dependency/ low dependency care, outpatient follow-up. The postholder will also provide clinical support to the Regional Newborn Transport Service (SONeT) and Neonatal Network (Thames Valley & Wessex Neonatal ODN). Consultants participate in a non-resident emergency nighttime on-call service for the neonatal unit with a second on call system for transport – with a combined-on call frequency of approximately 1 in 4 including prospective cover.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Neonatal Consultant Job plan – New appointment

The neonatal unit has identical weeks for clinical service for all consultants.

The job plan below has 8.5 Clinical Pas and 1.5 SPA. Each time tabled activity is a discrete block, and a new consultant appointment would need to do 5 of each to make up to 8.5 DCC.

Timetable blocks

All consultants undertake identical block of clinical activities.

The timetable for each block and Job Plan is outlined on pages 9 and 10 of the attached Job Description.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• MRCPCH or equivalent.
• Entry on GMC Specialist Register with CCT in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) OR CESR in neonates OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview. Applicants who have begun their CESR application but not completed it are welcome to apply
• Instructor in Neonatal Life Support
• Transport Training
• Higher medical degree

Experience

• Work - A wide experience in the management of all aspects of neonatal intensive care at regional level.
• Work - Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level in a NICU and to manage complex clinical problems
• Level of responsibility - Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level in a NICU and to manage complex clinical problems.

Skills & Knowledge

• Leadership Skills - Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
• Organisation and management skills - Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
• Professional – extra skills or achievements - Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork.
• Experience in supporting/leading recruitment of junior doctors from overseas.
• Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills. Highly committed to team work.

Teaching & Training skills

• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
• Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees
• Enthusiastic teacher and trainer
• Formal training in teaching skills
• Formal training in assessment and appraisal
• Experience of educational supervision

Clinical governance experience

• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Investigation training

Research Skills

• Experience of entering babies to multicentre randomised controlled trials
• Peer reviewed publications
• GCP training

Other

• Transport - Travel to fulfil clinical commitments

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Amit Gupta Job title Neonatal Consultant Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07906161240 Additional information

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Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a regional centre for prenatal and feto-maternal medicine and the OUH Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is the regional medical and surgical referral centre for complex neonatal care in the Thames Valley Neonatal Network. The NICU also provides all new-born care services for the local population. The unit currently has 50 cots (16 ICU/12HDU/22SCBU). The neonatal unit runs a large international medical recruitment programme and experience in supporting the education or training of junior doctors is desirable. Experience in managing a neonatal transport service is desirable. The appointee will be expected to participate in the on-call rota and may be required to work on any other site as required by the OUH Trust in the future.

The successful applicant will join a team of 9 existing consultants.

The new appointee will have the opportunity to work closely with an experienced senior clinical team and established MDT.