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Job summary

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Neonatologist
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent: Substantive
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
213-MED-PRUH-6433811
Employer
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
PRUH
Town
Orpington, England
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/07/2024 23:59

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Consultant Neonatologist

Consultant

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,500 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Job overview

2x Consultant Neonatologist
Princess Royal University Hospital
Full time: 10 PA's
Permanent 

 

This is a replacement Consultant post.  The remit of the post holder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients and to provide and develop neonatal services to the Trust’s neonatal patients.  In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

Main duties of the job

The post will be based at the Princess Royal University Hospital with clinical attending weeks at Denmark Hill and the proposed Job Plan (10 PAs) is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the post holder commencing in post. 

The On-Call commitment is for a 1:6.5 rota, which is classed as Category A. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The Trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD; Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

At King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust we are proud of our diverse workforce and the strength that gives us to provide compassionate care to all of our patients. We are fortunate to employ a workforce that represents the population we care for, and we celebrate the value of differences in age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sex, sexual orientation and religion or belief. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients.   Integral to these responsibilities are the following:

 

·         The provision of a first-class clinical service

·         Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

·         Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP

·         Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

·         Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

·         Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Person specification

Qualifications and Higher Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MBBS or equivalent
  • MRCPCH or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Neonatal special interest or SPIN module qualification, Other higher degree or diploma

Registration

Essential criteria
  • Full Registration with GMC
  • Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
  • On the day of interview applicants must be within 6 months of CCT or must have fully completed CESR application and be fully registered on the GMC Specialist Register. Any applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered.

Training and Experience

Essential criteria
  • A minimum of six years postgraduate experience. Two of the years must have been spent in appropriate neonatal training posts in neonatal intensive care units (level 3) within the UK at a higher specialist level
  • NLS Provider
  • Evidenced Level 3 safeguarding training
Desirable criteria
  • Current certificate as NLS, APLS or PALS instructor

Management and Leadership

Essential criteria
  • Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
  • Management course and/or qualification

Audit and Quality Improvement

Essential criteria
  • Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects.
Desirable criteria
  • Audit Publications

Research and Publications

Essential criteria
  • Experience of clinical research. Publication of relevant review articles or case reports.
Desirable criteria
  • GCP training, Evidence of recruitment into trials , Publication of relevant review articles or case reports

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation.
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching skills course/qualification

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Trisha Radia
Job title
Deputy CD
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Dr Ravindra [email protected]

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