Consultant in Neonatal Medicine

Job overview

Liverpool Women’s Hospital is seeking a consultant in Neonates to join its team at Liverpool Women’s and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital partnership. Fixed clinical sessions providing neonatal intensive care, neonatal high dependency care and neonatal special care with resident nights on call at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, as well as neonatal high dependency care at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The postholder will be expected to undertake follow-up of babies in outpatients, and joint antenatal counselling in the fetal medicine unit. These shifts are distributed in an annualised job plan.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital provide acute care for intensive care and high dependency babies in mixed acuity rooms. There are two consultants on for acute care between 0830 and 1700 on weekdays and 1430 on weekend days. Thereafter there is one resident consultant until 21.00 with handover to the resident night consultant 2030-0900.

There is a consultant present on the Alder Hey unit from 0830 until 20.30 on weekdays, and 0830 until 1730 on weekend days with non-resident cover overnight. Alder Hey sessions involve morning ward rounds on the Neonatal Surgical Unit and review of surgical neonatal patients on the Paediatric Intensive Care and High Dependency units, as well as ad-hoc review of referred babies on other wards.

Main duties of the job

Fixed clinical sessions providing neonatal intensive care, neonatal high dependency care and neonatal special care with resident nights on call at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, as well as neonatal high dependency care at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The postholder will be expected to undertake follow-up of babies in outpatients, and joint antenatal counselling in the fetal medicine unit. These shifts are distributed in an annualised job plan. We are in the process of establishing a clinical commitment for consultant time to Connect Northwest, the transport service which operates across the North West ODN, and there may be opportunities for the successful applicant to contribute to this service.

In line with the Trust’s Job Planning Policy, all Consultants will be allocated 1.5 core SPA sessions per week. This time will be used for participation in undergraduate and post graduate teaching, continuing professional development, mandatory training, non-patient administration, participating in clinical audit and preparation for annual appraisal and revalidation. The additional 1 SPA will be used for activities in defined roles such as the educational supervision of trainees and lead roles in service development. Neonatal research is actively encouraged and for suitable candidates 1 PA may be available to develop research activity. Any proposed research activity must be in keeping with the wider research strategy. There is a diverse consultant workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details regarding job plan, role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description

Applicant requirements

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.