Locum Consultant Neonatologist

1. The post holder will be expected to provide a patient centred service, respecting the privacy, dignity and choice of individual patients. They will be responsible with Consultant Neonatal colleagues for the provision of inpatient neonatal services within the East Lancashire Hospital Trust.
2. The post holder will aim to deliver high quality neonatal care with the help of the existing Neonatal Team.
3. The post holder will assist consultant colleagues in the continued development of a consultant led approach to Neonatal paediatrics.
4. The post holder will share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the team.
5. The post holder will be the hot week Consultant 1 in 8 including 1 in 8 weekends
6. The post holder will run Consultant clinics at both Blackburn and Burnley sites

The purpose built, state of the art, Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley has been built to BAPM specification. The unit is funded for 14 ITU/HDU cots and 20 Special care cots resulting in a 34 cot Neonatal unit. The unit caters for a birth rate of ~6700 deliveries per year. The NICU at LWNC offers Level 3 care for babies needing ongoing medical intensive care at all gestations, including those born at borderline threshold of viability. The unit provides a full range of specialist neonatal services including all modes of invasive and non-invasive ventilation (volume guarantee, pressure support and HFOV), therapeutic cooling and inhaled nitric oxide. The unit has onsite facilities for Cranial Ultrasound and Neonatal Echocardiography.

The medical Neonatal team is led by 10 WTE Consultant Neonatologists. The successful candidate will contribute to a 1 in 9 Consultant rota. The Middle grade team has a full complement of 9 middle grade tier personnel including 4 Specialist Registrars, 2 senior Clinical Fellows and 3 ANNPs. The first tier rota has 15 staff and runs as a 2 person rota out of hours rota. This comprises 8 FY2 Doctors, 1 Paediatric ST trainee, 2 WTE Clinical fellow posts and 4 ANNPs, with 2 further ANNPs in training., East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides a caring service to a population of 550,000 in the Pennine Lancashire area. Services are provided from our two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital and from our community rehabilitation wards at Pendle Community Hospital, Accrington Victoria Hospital and Clitheroe Community Hospital

Our Blackburn site is the centre for all acute services in East Lancashire

Burnley General Teaching Hospital is the site for the East Lancashire Women's and Newborn Centre and is the largest in-patient consultant led obstetric unit in the North West. There is also a midwife-led birthing unit off the Hospital site in Blackburn.

The development of a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care service for East Lancashire was approved by the Lancs/ S. Cumbria SHA in June 2006.

The 2 neonatal services at Blackburn and Burnley came together as an East Lancs Level 3 service from Nov 2010. The new Unit is a purpose built, state of the art build, designed to the highest specifications as per BAPM standards.

The Neonatal Unit at LWNC has 6 intensive care cots, 8 high dependency cots and 20 special care cots with a total cot capacity of 34 cots. In addition there are 2 isolation cots.