Consultant in Neonatal Paediatrics (interest in Paediatric Cardiology)

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Neonatology department at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and the family feel valued during their visits to the Trust.
This is a whole time equivalent substantive Neonatal consultant post and the successful applicant will share the responsibilities for providing acute neonatal care at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. Outpatient clinics are based at the Lister Hospital and QE 2 Hospital in Welwyn Garden City. Our Neonatal unit is a local neonatal unit (LNU) part of East of England (EOE) Neonatal Network. The post comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs) and includes an on-call commitment of 1:6 exclusive for the Local Neonatal Unit. There is no Acute paediatric commitment to this post., The post holder with join the 6 Neonatal consultants in the delivery of the neonatal care and participate in 1:7 on call rota for weekdays and weekends. There will be no Acute Paediatric commitments however, the post holder will perform Paediatric cardiology clinic and work in collaboration with Trust paediatric cardiology lead and the cardiology network. When covering the intensive and high dependency care areas the consultant will conduct daily ward rounds in these areas and be available at all times for help, advice and discussion with staff or parents., The post holder will deliver high-quality and compassionate patient centered care, share responsibilities for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning, teach and train within the multidisciplinary service, will have active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity and have active participation in continuing medical education.
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We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
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At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
+ The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
+ New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
+ Hertford County, Hertford
+ Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.