Locum Consultant Neonatologist (10 PAs)

Job overview

Advert for Locum Consultant in Neonatology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

This is an exciting opportunity to join the team providing neonatal intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH).

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is a renowned tertiary centre which provides world-class care to infants, children and young people with rare, complex and difficult-to-treat conditions as well as acute, life threatening illness, many of which are treated on the largest critical intensive care units in the UK.

Main duties of the job

Intensive Care provision at this Trust is a consultant led service. The attending neonatologist will have responsibilities for clinical duties on the Specialised NICU as well as communicating with parents, and referring teams, bed-side teaching, mentoring of trainees and supervision of practical procedures.

When not attending on the Specialised NICU, there will be further clinical commitments on the wards elsewhere in the hospital as part of the neonatal outreach team. This will consist of reviewing neonatal patients with a variety of medical and surgical morbidities on a daily basis during the week and providing clinical advice to the neonatal specialist nurse.

The attached job plan provides an example of the proposed work schedule of the post. This is indicative of the duties that the post would require and should not be seen as a rigid timetable. It is recognised that there will be some changes in this job plan after local negotiation with the Specialty Lead.

A total on average of 9 PAs per week will be direct clinical care, with 1 SPA. Detailed calculations shown in job summary.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachments.