Job requirements
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Teaching Skills
Evidence of an interest and commitment to teaching
- Career Progression
Appropriate progression of career to date
- Academic and Research
Evidence of participation in audit
- Organisation and Planning
Experience and ability to work in multi-professional teams
- Experience/ Qualifications
Basic medical degree
- Experience/ Qualifications
MRCPCH or recognised equivalent. or its recognised equivalent.
- Experience/ Qualifications
Full and specialist registration (with a licence to practise) with the GMC or be eligible for registration within six months of the interview. • If you trained in the UK, you must also have a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Paediatrics with neonatal medicine credentials s or be within six months of receiving it by the interview date. • If you trained outside the UK, you must provide evidence that your qualifications are equivalent to the UK CCT. (Equivalence must be confirmed by GMC by date of AAC)
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Higher specialist training and substantial experience in tertiary neonatal intensive care; competence in neonatal resuscitation, invasive ventilation, high-frequency ventilation, therapeutic hypothermia and care of surgical neonates; experience of neonatal follow-up, antenatal counselling and multidisciplinary working; Understanding of clinical risk management
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues.
Desirable
11 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Breadth of experience in and outside specialty
- Teaching Skills
Recognised teaching qualification
- Academic and Research
Research experience
- Academic and Research
Publications
- Academic and Research
Prizes and honours
- Experience/ Qualifications
Higher Degree
- Experience/ Qualifications
Completed NTN Neonatology training programme -MD/PhD Higher degree (MD, PhD or MSc)
- Experience/ Qualifications
ARNI provider/instructor; additional relevant accreditation or leadership qualification
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Neonatal Transport Experience
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Echocardiography or cranial ultrasound expertise
- Clinical Skills and Experience
Complementary specialist interest aligned to service priorities
Job overview
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed substantive Consultant Neonatologist to join the Neonatal Service within Women & Children, Clinical Support Services.
The successful applicant will join an established consultant team providing tertiary neonatal intensive care through the Trevor Mann Baby Unit (TMBU) at the Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH), local neonatal services at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) Special Care Baby Unit(SCU), and regional neonatal transport. The post holder will contribute to high-quality neonatal intensive, high-dependency and special care; consultant on-call; outpatient and antenatal work; clinical governance; education; quality improvement; research; and service development.
The service values multidisciplinary and family-integrated working and supports the development of specialist interests aligned to departmental, network and Trust priorities.
Main duties of the job
Clinical care and service delivery
- Provide consultant-led neonatal intensive care, high-dependency care, special care and transitional/postnatal neonatal care across RSCH and PRH.
- Lead consultant ward rounds, multidisciplinary reviews, handovers and family meetings.
- Attend and supervise management of high-risk deliveries and neonatal resuscitation.
- Provide antenatal counselling for families where neonatal admission, premature birth, congenital anomaly or neonatal surgery is anticipated.
- Undertake neonatal follow-up and other agreed specialist clinics.
- Contribute to neonatal transport advice and activity in accordance with competence, service need and the agreed job plan.
- Work collaboratively with maternity, fetal medicine, paediatric surgery, radiology, cardiology, ophthalmology, pharmacy, pathology, community and network colleagues.
- Promote Family Integrated Care, shared decision-making, compassionate communication and equitable access to services.
- Ensure accurate clinical documentation, coding and timely correspondence and undertake patient-related administration within DCC time.
Clinical governance, quality and safety
- Participate in morbidity and mortality review, governance meetings, incident review, complaints learning, audit and clinical effectiveness activity.
- Support guideline development, implementation of evidence-based practice, risk management and learning from deaths.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information about this post please find attached the Job Description and Person Specification
Proposed Interview Date: Nov/Dec 2026
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.
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This advert is for Consultant Neonatologist with University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust in Worthing, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Paediatrics role. The advertised salary is £113565.00 to £150569.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Nov 2026.
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