Consultant Neonatologist
1 day ago
Haywards Heath
A substantive consultant post in the Neonatal Service within Women & Children at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder provides consultant-led intensive, high-dependency and special care at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital, alongside on-call, antenatal, follow-up clinic and neonatal transport work. The role sits in a tertiary unit at the Trevor Mann Baby Unit and emphasises family-integrated and multidisciplinary working, with scope for a specialist interest. Full GMC registration with a licence to practise is required, plus a paediatric CCT with neonatal credentials for UK-trained applicants. • Provide consultant-led neonatal intensive, high-dependency, special and transitional/postnatal care across RSCH and PRH, • Lead consultant ward rounds, multidisciplinary reviews, handovers and family meetings, • Attend and supervise high-risk deliveries and neonatal resuscitation, • Provide antenatal counselling where neonatal admission, prematurity, congenital anomaly or neonatal surgery is anticipated, • Undertake neonatal follow-up and other agreed specialist clinics, • Contribute to neonatal transport advice and activity in line with competence, service need and job plan, • Work with maternity, fetal medicine, paediatric surgery, radiology, cardiology, ophthalmology, pharmacy, pathology, community and network colleagues, • Promote Family Integrated Care, shared decision-making, compassionate communication and equitable access, • Keep accurate clinical documentation, coding and timely correspondence, and complete patient administration within DCC time, • Take part in morbidity and mortality review, governance meetings, incident review, complaints learning, audit and clinical effectiveness, • Support guideline development, evidence-based practice, risk management and learning from deaths, • Contribute to education, quality improvement, research and service development, • Basic medical degree, • MRCPCH or recognised equivalent, • Full GMC registration with licence to practise, or eligible for registration within six months of interview, • UK-trained: CCT in Paediatrics with neonatal medicine credentials, or within six months of receiving it by interview date, • Non-UK trained: qualifications confirmed equivalent to UK CCT by GMC by AAC date, • Higher specialist training and substantial experience in tertiary neonatal intensive care, • Experience of neonatal follow-up, antenatal counselling and multidisciplinary working, • Appropriate career progression to date, • Competence in neonatal resuscitation, invasive and high-frequency ventilation, therapeutic hypothermia and care of surgical neonates, • Understanding of clinical risk management, • Experience and ability to work in multi-professional teams, • Evidence of own development to improve understanding of equalities issues, • Evidence of an interest and commitment to teaching, • Evidence of participation in audit, • Higher degree (MD, PhD or MSc), • Completed NTN neonatology training programme, • ARNI provider or instructor, or other accreditation or leadership qualification, • Neonatal transport experience, • Echocardiography or cranial ultrasound expertise, • Complementary specialist interest aligned to service priorities, • Recognised teaching qualification, • Research experience, publications, prizes and honours, • Membership of staff networks, • Buddy to help new starters settle in #J-18808-Ljbffr