Trust Doctor (ST1-3 equivalent) in Neonatology

We are seeking dynamic and enthusiastic candidates to join our Paediatric Medical Staffing team as a Trust Doctor in Neonatology role available for a permanent posting within the team. We would require the candidate to be available to commence on Wednesday 2nd August.

We are a friendly and supportive paediatric department with a team of consultants dedicated to teaching. Our department recently won a PAFTA award for best paediatric training unit in London twice in recent years. Our patients come from diverse backgrounds and present with broad spectrum of pathologies, enhancing the training experience. Our junior doctors have high success rate in passing exams and high success rate in applying for training posts.

This post attracts a rota supplement of 50% of basic salary for all out of hours working completed, and as part of this you will be working 1:3 weekends and less than 48 hours per week on average. This includes time for other developmental activities such as quality improvement projects, audits, personal research etc. In addition, there are at least three hours of protected educational sessions per week.

Although not officially recognised training posts, these roles will provide all the same training opportunities, study leave entitlements, and supervision provided to training staff, and the Trust has a fantastic record for staffing being accepted from these posts onto National Training Programmes.

We also work closely with the community teams at St Michael’s and St Anne’s Hospital. The department runs on a split rota with a separate team of registrars and trainee’s on the neonatal and paediatric units.

Sunrise Neonatal Unit is a Local Neonatal Unit providing care to babies greater than 27 weeks gestation and weighing more than 1 kg. We have 24 cots in total, 2 designated as Intensive Care, 6 as High Dependency and 16 as Special Care; however it is anticipated that the unit will expand alongside the development of the new Maternity Unit which will increase our cot capacity to 28.

We also staff a busy transitional care on the postnatal ward where we care for an average of 10 babies a day. We have a strong belief in family centred care and work closely with parents to enable them to have the confidence to care for their baby on discharge.

Our neonatal service works closely with both maternity and paediatric colleagues and has established good working relationships with other neonatal units in the North Central/North East London Network.

We are based on the first floor within maternity building and we work very closely with our maternity birthing center, labour ward and with different neonatal units within the London Neonatal Network for provision of specialist neonatal care, including surgery.

For informal enquiries please contact

• Dr. Ian Gregory (iansteven.gregory@nhs.net) or
• Dr. Claire Tipper (clairetipper@nhs.net)

A structured application form will be used for short-listing for interview. Please ensure that this form is fully completed. CVs will only be used for supplementary information and not in place of information that should be provided on the application form.