Two full-time Locum consultant posts in Neonatal Medicine are available at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
The post is available on a full-time basis for 10 sessions a week.
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact Amit Gupta, Clinical Lead for Newborn Care Services, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, The John Radcliffe Hospital (Tel: Oxford (01865) 221356), or Shelley Segal, Clinical Director for Children’s Services (Tel: Oxford (01865) 226399).
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work the advertised sessions will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis, in consultation with consultant colleagues. Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.
The postholder’s duties will be primarily at John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.
Clinical
The post includes attending duties covering neonatal intensive /high dependency/ low dependency care, outpatient follow-up. The postholder will also provide clinical support to the Regional Newborn Transport Service (SONeT) and Neonatal Network (Thames Valley & Wessex Neonatal ODN). Consultants participate in a non-resident emergency nighttime on-call service for the neonatal unit with a second on call system for transport – with a combined-on call frequency of approximately 1 in 4 including prospective cover.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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Neonatal Consultant Job plan – New appointment
The neonatal unit has identical weeks for clinical service for all consultants.
The job plan below has 8.5 Clinical Pas and 1.5 SPA. Each time tabled activity is a discrete block, and a new consultant appointment would need to do 5 of each to make up to 8.5 DCC.
Timetable blocks
All consultants undertake identical block of clinical activities. The timetable for each block is as below.
Week
DCC activity block
Times
Comment
Week 1
ITU week– Acorn ward
0900 to 1900
Ward round and cover for first ITU area. The consultant also covers the low dependency ward.
Week 2
ITU week– Blossom ward
0900 to 1730
Ward round and cover of the 2ndITU area
Week 3
Night 4 nights in a block
1700-0900 – Monday to Thursday
Resident till 2200. The rest of the time is on call. There is a backup consultant available for transport.
Week 4
ITU weekend (Friday, Sunday)
1700 to 0900 Friday night cover
0900- 1300 Saturday ward round
0900 – 1700 – Sunday ward round and cover
1700 – to 0900 Night-time cover with ward round at 2100.
Resident till 2200 on Friday
Leave at 1300. 2ndon call
Onsite till 1700
Week 5
HDU week
0900 – 1730
High dependency ward round cover. The consultant also covers post-natal wards
Week 6
HDU weekend (Saturday, Sunday)
0900 – 1700 – Saturday ward round and cover
1700- 0900 – Saturday night cover
0900 – 1300- Sunday ward round
Onsite till 1700
Non-resident; ward round at 2100
Ward round and cover. Leave at 1300. 2ndon call
Week 7
MDT, Clinic, Network outreach
MDT – Monday, Wed. Mortality
Clinic – 1400 to 1700
Network outreach to other neonatal units in the DGH hospitals
Weekly two MDTs (Senior team meeting and community), Network outreach once a month
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025
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