Job summary
Employer heading
Junior Clinical Fellow in Neonatology
NHS Medical & Dental: Junior Clinical Fellow
About our Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.
Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster. Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.
Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunities for a Junior Clinical Fellows to join our a Neonatal team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital from September 2024 to March 2025 to fill a HEE gap in our Neonatal department.
Please be advised our out of training doctors are paid on the 2002 agreement not the 2016 contract.
Owing to the short turnaround and nature of the gap we can only consider candidate who have existing right to work in the UK, we will not be sponsoring for this post.
Who are we?
We are a busy neonatal unit and one of the two lead perinatal centres in the N.W London Perinatal Network and also the designated neonatal surgical referral unit for the sector.
Our critical care project is a state-of-the-art expansion and redevelopment of our adult and neonatal intensive care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. We have been working with our charity CW+ and a range of partners to design world-class intensive care units with optimal healing environments for patients and their families.
It will allow us to treat more critically babies every year, in world-class facilities which will benefit patients and their families. This is one of our biggest redevelopments to date and it will significantly increase the future capacity in these areas, allowing for the treatment of more patients every year in state-of-the-art facilities.
Main duties of the job
We offer comprehensive neonatal training with emphasis on surgical neonates, multidisciplinary gastro-nutrition care and neuro-developmental outcomes of high risk babies. Our unit has a busy high – risk obstetric service, we deliver and stabilise cardiac babies prior to transfer to the Royal Brompton Hospital and have 24 hour all - level paediatric surgical and Anaesthetics cover for the unit.
Please note that this post is only applicable to fully GMC registered doctors. We may also close this advert before the end date if we receive a significant number of applications.
Working for our organisation
We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £30 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex – in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Operational management of NICU under direct supervision of consultant neonatologists
- Daily consultant ward rounds and a weekly nutrition ward round with paediatric gastroenterologists
- Lead ward round and clinical decision making once a week on the registrar led ward round
- Overseeing documentation and progress of discharge summaries
- Support of SHOs in the assessment and management of acutely ill and postnatal ward neonates.
- Attendance at the weekly grand round with neonatal and paediatric surgical consultants
- Weekly liaison meeting with NICU staff and social services
- Weekly perinatal grand round with all obstetricians and neonatologists
- Liaison with neonatal surgical team and anaesthetists, paediatric cardiology and respiratory teams
- Involvement in neonatal medical and neurodevelopmental follow-up clinics
- Participate in neonatal transport (when not performed by NTS)
- Provide high quality care to patients:
- Maintain GMC registration and hold a licence to practice
- Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties of the post
- Ensure families are involved in decisions about care and respond to their views
Please refer to our detailed job description for more information
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- MBBS or Equivalent
- Full GMC registration
- Certified New-born Life Support Provider
- Safeguarding Training
Desirable criteria
- Higher Degree in Paediatrics/ Teaching/ Research
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- Advanced Paediatric Life Support Provider
- Life Support courses Trainer
- Good Clinical Practice certified
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in a tertiary neonatal unit
- Previous experience in a neonatal/ paediatric surgical unit
- Previous experience in a paediatric intensive care unit / cardiology
- Evidence of teaching experience
- Previous Research Experience
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Competent in resuscitating and stabilising neonates
Desirable criteria
- Intubating and Managing Ventilated Neonates
- Experience in managing pre and post -surgical aspects of neonatal care
- Competent in neonatal procedures like umbilical catheterisation
- Ability to perform Cranial ultrasound scans
- Design and manage clinical audit projects
- Supervise junior trainees and involve in informal and formal teaching
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nilesh Agrawal
- Job title
- Consultant Neonatologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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