Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 12 month (mat cover) Specialty Doctor in Neonatal Medicine. 

The post will provide an excellent chance to further develop your skills in a tertiary NICU. 

There are approximately 6500 deliveries per year in the Trust. The department’s Neonatology practice is diverse. We have state of the art facilities and UHNNM NICU covers a large geographical area. The NICU provides tertiary services for babies of all gestations including extreme preterm infants from 22 weeks gestation,  term infants requiring therapeutic hypothermia, term infants with PPHN requiring nitric oxide. There is a well-established maternal foetal medicine service including tertiary maternal services for placenta accrete management. NICU is part of the on-site children's hospital,  which has several tertiary services including paediatric respiratory, paediatric gastroenterology including an 8 bedded PICU.  The NICU team work  collaboratively with other paediatric subspecialty services,  accessing their expertise if required.

Main duties of the job

Main clinical responsibilities of the post holder include: 

• Lead tier 2 cover for the intensive care, high dependency, special care, transitional care, postnatal wards. Conducting wards rounds with consultant supervision 
• Holding the emergency tier 2 bleep covering labour suite and theatres for normal deliveries, emergency and elective caesarean sections (including unexpected deliveries in the Emergency Department.
• Conducting internal transfers of babies i.e. for MRIAttending neonatal clinics with consultants
• Admission and management of neonates- including supervising tier 1 colleagues
• Providing advice to junior colleagues and supervising them with regards to management of common postnatal ward problems i.e. jaundice, hypoglycaemia etc.
• Antenatal counselling for women that present to delivery suite in threatened preterm labour

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.