Consultant Paediatrician with special interest in Neonates

This appointment is a full-time replacement post, however we would encourage anyone looking for flexible working or less than full time to apply as this may be able to be accommodated.

The successful candidate will be a neonatal interest paediatrician and will join a team of 12 paediatric consultants at Bedford Hospital. Overall the team provide 1 in 10 attending, on call cover to general Paediatrics and a Special Care Neonatal Unit, The post holder will join two other colleagues with a Neonatal Interest who will provide support and oversight to the Neonatal Unit, undertaking 1 in 6.5 neonatal unit attending weeks as well as 1 in 10 paediatric attending weeks (In total 13 attending weeks per year) in addition to infant clinics, paediatric clinics and general paediatric cover. You would be working closely with the neonatal intensive care team at Luton & Dunstable hospital, which provides tertiary care.

The Bedfordshire Hospital's Neonatal Service includes a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level 3) on The Luton and Dunstable Hospital site a Special Care Unit on the Bedford Hospital site. Clinical teams currently work predominantly on dedicated sites and this post does not currently include any clinical commitments on the Luton site. The Luton and Dunstable Hospital NICU is the lead Neonatal unit for the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire cluster of neonatal units and there are local Neonatal Units (Level 2) at Lister Hospital, Stevenage and Watford General Hospital.

Main duties of the job

Regular weeks of neonatal weeks which would happen in a 1:6.5 frequency approximately where you would providing clinical work, leadership and supervision as the consultant of the week.

Regular infant clinics and general paediatric clinics (50 clinics per year)

Participating in regular paediatric hot weeks which happen in a 1:10 frequency where you would provide clinical work, leadership and supervision.

Participating regularly in neonatal and paediatric governance meetings, risk meetings, perinatal meetings, PANDR meetings etc. and having close working relationship with the sister tertiary unit at L&D. Opportunities for Neonatal CPD are available through virtual attendance at Neonatal Teaching sessions and the weekly Grand Round in Luton and Dunstable NICU.

You would be encouraged to take on trainees for educational and clinical supervision. You would also be participating in teaching for medical students. You would also be delivering regular teaching sessions for junior doctors.

The appointee will be encouraged to take an active role in any relevant committees or sub-committees approved by the Trust.

The appointee will be asked to help produce, maintain and update departmental clinical management guidelines in line with evidence based best practice.

There would be plenty of opportunities in engaging in other leadership and managerial activities on a Trust wide basis.

Our Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Travel between hospital sites may be required.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. Please ensure that you make your application as soon as possible.