Locum Neonates Consultant

Job overview

Two full-time Locum consultant posts in Neonatal Medicine are available at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

The post is available on a full-time basis for 10 sessions a week.

Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact Amit Gupta, Clinical Lead for Newborn Care Services, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, The John Radcliffe Hospital (Tel: Oxford (01865) 221356), or Shelley Segal, Clinical Director for Children’s Services (Tel: Oxford (01865) 226399).

Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.

Main duties of the job

The postholder’s duties will be primarily at John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.

Clinical

Consultants participate in a non-resident emergency nighttime on-call service for the neonatal unit with a second on call system for transport – with a combined-on call frequency of approximately 1 in 4 including prospective cover.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Neonatal Consultant Job plan – New appointment

The neonatal unit has identical weeks for clinical service for all consultants.

The job plan below has 8.5 Clinical Pas and 1.5 SPA. Each time tabled activity is a discrete block, and a new consultant appointment would need to do 5 of each to make up to 8.5 DCC.

Timetable blocks

All consultants undertake identical block of clinical activities. The timetable for each block is as below.

Week

DCC activity block

Times

Comment

Week 1

ITU week– Acorn ward

0900 to 1900

Ward round and cover for first ITU area. The consultant also covers the low dependency ward.

Week 2

ITU week– Blossom ward

0900 to 1730

Ward round and cover of the 2^nd ITU area

Week 3

Night 4 nights in a block

1700-0900 – Monday to Thursday

Resident till 2200. The rest of the time is on call. There is a backup consultant available for transport.

Week 4

ITU weekend (Friday, Sunday)

1700 to 0900 Friday night cover

0900- 1300 Saturday ward round

0900 – 1700 – Sunday ward round and cover

1700 – to 0900 Night-time cover with ward round at 2100.

Resident till 2200 on Friday

Leave at 1300. 2^nd on call

Onsite till 1700

Week 5

HDU week

0900 – 1730

High dependency ward round cover. The consultant also covers post-natal wards

Week 6

HDU weekend (Saturday, Sunday)

0900 – 1700 – Saturday ward round and cover

1700- 0900 – Saturday night cover

0900 – 1300- Sunday ward round

Onsite till 1700

Non-resident; ward round at 2100

Ward round and cover. Leave at 1300. 2^nd on call

Week 7

MDT, Clinic, Network outreach

MDT – Monday, Wed. Mortality

Clinic – 1400 to 1700

Network outreach to other neonatal units in the DGH hospitals

Weekly two MDTs (Senior team meeting and community), Network outreach once a month

Person specification

Professional qualifications and Training

• Full GMC
• MRCPCH or equivalent.
• Entry on GMC Specialist Register with CCT in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) OR CESR in neonates OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview. Applicants who have begun their CESR application but not completed it are welcome to apply

• Higher medical degree
• Instructor in Neonatal Life Support
• Transport Training

Experience

• A wide experience in the management of all aspects of neonatal intensive care at regional level.
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level in a NICU and to manage complex clinical problems.

• Experience gained at several regional centers in UK or abroad. Experience in neonatal transport Experience in specialist areas which complements those of the existing consultants
• Previous Consultant Experience

skills and knowledge

• Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
• Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
• Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
• Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills. Highly committed to team work.
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
• Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees
• Enthusiastic teacher and trainer
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Experience of entering babies to multicentre randomised controlled trials

• Management qualifications
• Experience in supporting/leading recruitment of junior doctors from overseas.
• Formal training in teaching skills
• Formal training in assessment and appraisal
• Experience of educational supervision
• Investigation training
• Peer reviewed publications
• Research grants
• GCP training

Other

• Travel to fulfil clinical commitments