# Consultant in Neonatal Medicine > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-neonatal-medicine/a43fbed4-9a01-4f8b-a188-d36cd747e71e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-neonatal-medicine/a43fbed4-9a01-4f8b-a188-d36cd747e71e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Liverpool Women's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Paediatrics - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum (dependant on experience) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week (Plus 3% on call allowance) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-18T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-02T15:06:00.353Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Liverpool_Womens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Neonatal/Neonatal-v8306949 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8306949?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/REMAX/contact ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualification **Essential** - Primary medical degree of a recognised University - Full registration and Licence to Practice with the GMC - Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health or equivalent - Inclusion in the specialist register in Paediatrics (neonatal medicine) or equivalent, or within 6 months of CCT for Paediatrics (neonatal medicine)at time of interview **Desirable** - Higher degree e.g., MD or PhD ### Clinical Experience **Essential** - A minimum of seven years postgraduate experience. Of this three must have been spent in appropriate training posts during higher specialist training. - Evidence of advanced clinical skills in neonatal medicine - Current certificate in NLS **Desirable** - Evidence of skills in neonatal transport ### Research experience **Essential** - Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems - Evidence of original work as demonstrated by publications in peer reviewed journals **Desirable** - Research activity leading to a higher degree \[MD (UK) PhD or MPhil\] - Evidence of experience in research supervision - Experience in Leading research ### Teaching experience **Essential** - Experience of teaching undergraduates - Experience of teaching and supervising SHOs - Experience of supervising SpRs - Enthusiasm for teaching at all levels **Desirable** - Current certificate as NLS, APLS, PALS, ARNI instructor ### Management and administrative experience **Essential** - Ability to organise and manage the work of a neonatal unit, including outpatients - Understanding of the principles of clinical governance - Ability to organise advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service **Desirable** - Experience in the development of clinical guidelines - Experience of audit - Management training - Experience of risk management ## Documents - [job plan (pdf, 32.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662807) - [risk id (pdf, 251.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10626868) - [recruitment pack (pdf, 9.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2490) - [job description (pdf, 256.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10626865) - [person specification (pdf, 50.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10626866) - [recruitment documents (pdf, 834.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10626870) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.