A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated ambitious individual to join a well-integrated team. The post will be suitable for trainees who intend to further develop their paediatric, clinical, neonatal transport and R&D skills, and/or pursue a career as a specialist in Neonatal Medicine. The post is available from March 2025 for 12 months.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Successful applicants will be involved in clinical care of a wide variety of infants as part of a tertiary surgical neonatal unit covering the North East of England. Our unit provides neonatal care to approximately 6000 deliveries per annum and around 3000 intensive care days as well as housing the fetal medicine service for the region. We are also the regional neonatal surgical unit. After a period of integrating into the team as part of the NICU registrar team, the appointee will be responsible for providing middle grade clinical cover for the Northern Neonatal transport service and delivering acute neonatal uplift within the northern neonatal network. There will also be opportunities within these responsibilities to pursue high quality, quality improvement projects, audit and research and development projects. The precise hours worked will need to be tailored to the needs of both the appointee and the department but will be fully compliant with current directives for resident doctors. All the above activities will be carried out under consultant supervision.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the post and opportunities available please contact:Dr Claire Granger, Consultant in Neonatal Medicine on 0191 2139770, or at Claire.granger@nhs.net
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
• Working at middle grade level providing medical cover to the neonatal transport service
• Undertaking neonatal transports of sick infants between neonatal and paediatric wards and intensive care units
Administrative:
• Contribution to Directorate audit programme and quality improvement initiatives
Research:
• Contribution to research studies active on the unit including those on the NIHR portfolio
• Where appropriate, registrars will be encouraged to develop research studies that further the aims and objectives of the unit and Trust
Teaching:
• Helping teach medical students attached to the unit
• Contributing to teaching junior medical and nursing colleagues
• Attendance and support for daily teaching programme on Ward 35
This advert closes on Friday 7 Feb 2025
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