Clinical Fellow in Neonatal Medicine

Job overview

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is located in the Women & Children’s Hospital.  We are a 30 bedded tertiary/ Level 3/ Advanced NICU with 12 intensive care and High Dependency Cots, 14 Special Care cots and a 4 bed Transitional Care ward.

The unit is linked to a 6000+ deliveries per year obstetric unit including a foetal medicine centre.

A full range of neonatal intensive care experience is available during training including high frequency oscillatory ventilation, nitric oxide and therapeutic hypothermia. Observation of Neonatal Surgery is possible in the co-located paediatric Theatres and experience in peri-operative care on NICU available. There is excellent access to tertiary paediatric services such as Cardiology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, and Genetics within the network.

We work closely with these teams to provide care for the complex newborns in additional to extremely premature and neonatal surgical babies with the exception of cardiac and cardiothoracic surgery & ECMO.  Out-patient services include follow up of the NICU graduates as well as new patient referrals for infants under 1 year of age allowing a diverse experience.

The Hull Neonatal unit is part of the Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (ODN) including 18 neonatal units in Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and Northern Lincolnshire. We accept referrals from these units and other centres for level 3 neonatal medical and surgical care.

Main duties of the job

This post would be suitable for an individual looking for UK NICU/ Tertiary/level 3 experience. In addition to the clinical experience, the Post holder will have the opportunity to develop skills in research, simulation ,service improvement and build skills in Neonatal POCUS .

• To provide tier 2 clinical cover for the Neonatal Service in and out of hours as described in the EWTD and new deal compliant Rota
• To provide supervision and support to the Tier 1 junior doctors working alongside the Tier 2 doctors.
• To participate in induction, teaching and training
• To work with midwives and Tier 1 doctors to provide advice and guidance for babies on Postnatal wards as required,
• To work on quality improvement, service development and audits relevant to the neonatal service in Hull.

• Objectives of the Post

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

6 Months experience at least of tertiary Neonatal in UK

Previous applicants need not apply.