# Locum Consultant in Neonatal Medicine

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust.

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## 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:** £113565.00 to £150569.00
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Consultant Locum post)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week (Plus 3% on call allowance)
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-22T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06T13:28:29.691Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8372098
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8372098?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/REMAX/contact

## Job Content

### Job overview

Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated Locum Consultants in Neonatal Medicine to join the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership. The successful applicants will provide consultant-led neonatal intensive care, high dependency care and special care across Liverpool Women's Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital, antenatal counselling, participation in resident and non-resident consultant rotas, education, research and service development.

### Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide consultant-led neonatal care across both sites, including resident consultant nights at Liverpool Women's Hospital and non-resident on-call duties at Alder Hey. Consultants will contribute to outpatient care, antenatal counselling, governance, audit, education, quality improvement and service development.

- 1.5 SPA sessions per week for CPD, appraisal, governance, teaching and audit.
- Additional SPA for agreed leadership or educational roles.
- Potential involvement with Connect North West neonatal transport.

### 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

### Presentation skills

**Essential**

- Experience of presenting to audiences using visual aids

**Desirable**

- Presentation to learned societies
- Commissioned lectures to professional bodies

### Research experience

**Essential**

- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems

**Desirable**

- Research activity leading to a higher degree \[MD (UK) PhD or MPhil\]
- Evidence of experience in research supervision

### 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
- Postgraduate qualification in education
- Experience of coordinating educational programmes

### 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

## Documents

- [risk id (pdf, 232.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10699961)
- [recruitment pack (pdf, 9.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2490)
- [job description (pdf, 176.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10699960)
- [sample job plan (pdf, 865.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10699966)
- [person specification (pdf, 112.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10699959)
- [recruitment documents (pdf, 834.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10699949)

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