Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (with the possibility of a further 12 months extension)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 164-7500162
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- QMC
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £65,048 - £73,992 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Neonatal Clinical and Simulation Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Nottingham Neonatal Service . Applications are invited for a Senior Neonatal Clinical and Simulation Fellow, for a period of 12 months. Successful applicants will have an exciting experience working as a middle grade neonatal doctor in Nottingham Neonatal.
These posts will help with safe transition of the recently expanded Neonatal intensive care unit at Queens Medical Centre, which happened in 2024.
This experience should leave candidates well placed for a successful application to join a national training scheme in Paediatrics, or to prepare for GRID applications in Neonatology during a break from Paediatric training, or for candidates wishing to have senior neonatal experience before taking a consultant post. It would also provide the opportunity to revise and enhance neonatal skills post-CCT in preparation for Consultant posts.
This post is based in the neonatal service of Nottingham University Hospitals and will involve working on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at either City campus or Queens medical centre campus, as we provided cover over both sites.
Nottingham is the lead neonatal centre for the north of the East Midlands Operational Delivery Network (EM-ODN) with two neonatal units providing tertiary neonatal care.
Main duties of the job
Neonatal Intensive Care
There will be plentiful scope to consolidate practical procedures and clinical skills relevant to tertiary neonatal intensive care. These will include but not be limited to: airway management and intubation, peripheral arterial cannulation, umbilical catheterisation, intercostal drains, long-line insertion, cranial ultrasound and echocardiography. Experience will be gained using varied ventilation strategies and inhaled nitric oxide.
Neonatal simulation
The position provides an opportunity to have tertiary neonatal experience as well as 25% protected time for
simulation and patient safety experience. The fellow will have an opportunity to build skills in simulation, debrief and education. There is an established simulation program that offers in situ, classroom, small group and larger programme simulations. In addition to refining their facilitation skills, the fellow will be encouraged
to explore peer observation modalities for use amongst our simulation faculty to further their skills and abilities
in debrief in particular.
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.
Working for our organisation
All activities between the two units are organised on a “whole service” basis including junior doctors’ training, neonatal grand rounds, the Nottingham Neonatal Transport Service, clinical policy and guidelines, audit, clinical research and clinical governance. The Passport to Health Scheme for determining outcomes at follow up and combined Annual Report demonstrate that the service views itself as a whole. Our charitable Trust apportions donations equally across the two sites.
Nottingham Neonatal Service enjoys a high reputation amongst neonatal nurses. We have recently completed a review of the whole nursing structure, with an emphasis on the development of competency-based practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Neonatal Intensive Care
There will be plentiful scope to consolidate practical procedures and clinical skills relevant to tertiary neonatal intensive care. These will include but not be limited to: airway management and intubation, peripheral arterial cannulation, umbilical catheterisation, intercostal drains, long-line insertion, cranial ultrasound and echocardiography. Experience will be gained using varied ventilation strategies and inhaled nitric oxide.
There are numerous opportunities to gain experience in Neonatal Intensive Care Medicine as part of the clinical component of this role, including care of the extremely premature infant, stabilisation and transport of neonates with cardiac conditions and after PDA ligation, care of neonates with surgical conditions including gastroschisis, spina bifida and NEC, therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, nephrology shared-care cases of complexity, and parallel planning with palliative care. There may also be
opportunities appropriate to the level of the fellow’s experience in antenatal counselling of high-riskpregnancies, and follow-up including neurodevelopmental clinics.
Neonatal simulation
The position provides an opportunity to have tertiary neonatal experience as well as 25% protected time for
simulation and patient safety experience. The fellow will have an opportunity to build skills in simulation, debrief and education. There is an established simulation program that offers in situ, classroom, small group and larger programme simulations. In addition to refining their facilitation skills, the fellow will be encouraged
to explore peer observation modalities for use amongst our simulation faculty to further their skills and abilities
in debrief in particular. .
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration
Training / Experience
Essential criteria
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- Tertiary level neonatal experience at middle grade of at least six months
- NLS Provider
- Neonatal clinical skills to work at a middle grade level in a tertiary neonatal unit including practical procedures
Desirable criteria
- Advanced skills in an area of special interest within neonatology
- NLS Instructor
- Neonatal transport experience/ training Advanced Resuscitation of Newborn and Infant provider
management skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of basic management skills
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduates and postgraduate doctors
- Experience of clinical simulation
Desirable criteria
- Completed teaching courses / train the trainer / GIC
- Appraisal and assessment training and skills
- Experience designing and delivering teaching and/or simulation sessions
personal skills
Essential criteria
- Able to supervise junior staff effectively
- Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
- Good oral and written communication skills in English
audit/research
Essential criteria
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit Understanding of clinical governance issues
- Ability to assess and apply evidence based research into everyday clinical practice
- Commitment to development and adherence to departmental guidelines and protocols.
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at neonatal scientific meetings
- Evidence of having written / participated in the writing of evidence based guidelines
- Presentations at regional & national meetings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Dush Batra
- Job title
- Consultant Neonatologist and clinical lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01159691169
- Additional information
For further information please email for neonatal secretary team:
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