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There is an exciting opportunity to join the consultant team working for the Leicester Neonatal Service

This post has been developed to support a planned expansion of neonatal cots and to provide an increase in consultant support to the neonatal service, this post is for a fixed term of 12 months, with the potential to make permanent, this post includes a resident on call commitment, working as a resident consultant with a team of advanced neonatal nurse practitioners, middle grades and tier 1 doctors.  There are no middle grade commitments to these posts.

The Leicester Neonatal Service is currently split across 2 sites. There are currently 42 cots with a plan to incrementally increase to a total of 48 cots over the next 3 years. The first phase of this expansion is planned later this year. There wider plans to expand capacity to 70 cots as part of a new-build single site reconfiguration project.

The Leicester Royal Infirmary is our main site; our unit is housed in a state of the art facility with the full range of services and equipment. There are currently 18 cots that can provide flexible ITU / HDU care and 12 Special Care cots. Our smaller unit is based at Leicester General Hospital. This unit functions as a Special Care Baby Unit and has 12 cots.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Key Tasks

• Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management of patients.
• Participate in neonatal outpatient clinics and developmental follow up.
• To provide resident consultant on call services to the Leicester Royal Infirmary Neonatal Unit, supported by a full team of junior doctors and nurse practitioners.
• To provide educational support and training to our medical, nursing and nurse practitioner colleagues.
• To provide input into the neonatal service governance processes, including audit, management of complaints and production of guidelines.
• To lead MDT discussions and case reviews including input into mortality and morbidity meetings.
• A special interest that complements the existing team would be helpful
• To provide neonatal input to our colleagues in fetal medicine.
• To share with colleagues responsibility for the day-to-day management of patients.
• To promote new ways of working and co-ordinating care for patients in the community and to ensure that services are based on effective and integrated partnerships across the health community.
• Take part in multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Supervise and train junior medical staff
• To be involved in appraising and assessing juniors.
• Teaching, research and administration.
• To proactively develop the service.
• To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and audit.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).

We have four primary goals:

· high-quality care for all,

· being a great place to work,

· partnerships for impact, and

· research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

· we are compassionate,

· we are proud,

· we are inclusive, and

· we are one team

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.