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Location

Burnley, Lancashire | United Kingdom

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Job description

An opportunity for a 6 month locum contract has come available. The Level 3 Neonatal Unit is based at the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre in Burnley. It is a state of the art, new purpose built Unit which became operational in mid November 2010. All the maternity and Neonatal inpatient care in East Lancashire is centralised in Burnley as per Meeting Patient Needs (MPN) consultation.

This post of Senior Clinical Fellow is based exclusively in Neonatology. This vacancy has arisen due to a gap in the rota. This is a 80% less than full time post a and the post holder will join the Middle grade team comprising 4 ST trainees, 3 ANNPs, 1 Speciality Doctor , 2 resident Consultants. Currently all middle grades except one contribute to full shift EWTD rota.
1. The post holder will be expected to provide a patient centred service, respecting the privacy, dignity and choice of individual patients. They will be responsible, with Consultant Neonatal colleagues, for the provision of inpatient neonatal services within the East Lancashire Hospital Trust.
2. The post holder will aim to deliver high quality neonatal care with the help of the existing Neonatal colleagues.
3. The post holder will assist consultant colleagues in the continued development of Neonatal paediatrics.
4. The post holder will provide night and weekend cover for the rota.
5. The post holder will share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the Directorate.

1. The post holder will run Consultant clinics at both Blackburn and Burnley sites as per the job plan.

1. The post holder will observe and comply with clinical and non-clinical policies and procedures (including local and national employment and personnel policies) agreed with employees and management. In particular, the post holders will be responsible for updating policies and guidelines for the neonatal unit along with colleagues, which should be reviewed annually.

1. The post holder will be closely involved in clinical governance issues.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides a caring service to a population of 550,000 in the Pennine Lancashire area. Services are provided from our two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital and from our community rehabilitation wards at Pendle Community Hospital, Accrington Victoria Hospital and Clitheroe Community Hospital.

We treat almost 700,000 patients every year in our hospitals and community settings, using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. We provide a full range of acute hospital and adult community services and we are a specialist centre for hepatobiliary, head and neck and urological cancer services, robotic assisted surgery, specialist cardiology services and we are also a network provider of Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care. We are a nationally accredited Centre for Endometriosis and Uro-Gynaecology Surgery.

Burnley General Teaching Hospital is the site for the East Lancashire Women’s and New born Centre and is the largest in-patient consultant led obstetric unit in the North West. There is also a midwife-led birthing unit off the Hospital site in Blackburn.

The Trust also has close links with a number of Tertiary Centres in Manchester and Liverpool for both adult and children’s services.

Participate in ward rounds on the Neonatal Unit with the NICU-based consultant of
the week.
2. Work within the team to provide ongoing high quality care for newborn babies on the
neonatal unit, delivery suite, postnatal wards and out patient clinics.
3. Take added responsibilities in form of mentoring juniors, middle grade lead for
teaching, risk management, research, audits, transport etc.
4. Work under supervision of Neonatal Consultants.

Work on the on call rota

This advert closes on Tuesday 5 Mar 2024

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