Consultant Neonatologist
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as a consultant neonatologist to serve a multicultural population of Northeast London. Queen's Hospital Neonatal Unit is one of the largest Local Neonatal Unit in UK. Our neonatal services support a delivery rate of 7300 per year with a neonatal admission rate of 600 per year and 1000-1200 bed days per month. The unit has state of the art equipment, allowing use of any mode of ventilation. We offer therapeutic hypothermia to eligible newborns prior to transfer to tertiary centres. We take pride in achieving Baby Friendly accreditation in April 2024.
We have a close working relationship with Homerton and Royal London Hospital neonatal units, as well as other London network units. We work collaboratively with Maternity, Fetal Medicine and Paediatric teams. We encourage research activities. Our unit is a recognised NLS centre.
We have a dedicated 3-tier medical rota. The team is warm and friendly with high staff retention. The medical and nursing team is supported by an AHP team of dietician, speech and language therapist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and a perinatal psychotherapist.
We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to join us and contribute his/her expertise across inpatient and outpatient areas. The successful candidate will have ample opportunity to grow skills, develop an area of interest and get challenged in managing a wide range of complex pathologies regularly presenting in the department.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be responsible for running the neonatal service at BHRUT with the existing neonatal consultants working with the multidisciplinary team. The post holder will join the current consultant team to make the rota 1:7 and work within the team job plan, as summarised below. The postholder will be expected to support the neonatal lead with clinical governance, perinatal optimisation and safety champion activities.
Week 1 - NICU (Hot week' with prospective cover)
Week 2 - SCBU 1 (Hot week' with prospective cover
Week 3 - SCBU 2/postnatal ward
Week 4 - Clinic/admin/SPA/CG/Special interest/Teaching
Week 5 - Clinic/admin/SPA/CG/Special interest/Teaching
Week 6 - Clinic/admin/SPA/CG/Special interest/Teaching
Week 7 - Clinic/admin/SPA/CG/Special interest/Teaching
Consultants are expected to undertake twice daily ward rounds on the neonatal
unit. The hot-week consultant holds the crash bleep and attends neonatal emergencies. During non-hot-weeks, consultants undertake clinics and administrative tasks. During these weeks consultants also provide teaching and training to juniors, update guidelines, undertake audits and clinical governance activities etc.
Consultants also attend departmental meetings, link meetings, serious incident review meetings, perinatal quality and safety meetings, mortality and morbidity meetings etc. The successful postholder will be expected to attend and represent neonatal unit in such meetings as per rota.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Details
Date posted
16 April 2025
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Consultant
Salary
£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
162-M7503
Job locations
Neonatal Medical Staff
Queens & King George Hospitals
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer details
Employer name
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Neonatal Medical Staff
Queens & King George Hospitals
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer's website
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