Consultant Neonatologist

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed substantive Consultant Neonatologist to join the Neonatal Service within Women & Children, Clinical Support Services.

The successful applicant will join an established consultant team providing tertiary neonatal intensive care through the Trevor Mann Baby Unit (TMBU) at the Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH), local neonatal services at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) Special Care Baby Unit(SCU), and regional neonatal transport. The post holder will contribute to high-quality neonatal intensive, high-dependency and special care; consultant on-call; outpatient and antenatal work; clinical governance; education; quality improvement; research; and service development.

The service values multidisciplinary and family-integrated working and supports the development of specialist interests aligned to departmental, network and Trust priorities.

Main duties of the job

Clinical care and service delivery

• Provide consultant-led neonatal intensive care, high-dependency care, special care and transitional/postnatal neonatal care across RSCH and PRH.
• Lead consultant ward rounds, multidisciplinary reviews, handovers and family meetings.
• Attend and supervise management of high-risk deliveries and neonatal resuscitation.
• Provide antenatal counselling for families where neonatal admission, premature birth, congenital anomaly or neonatal surgery is anticipated.
• Undertake neonatal follow-up and other agreed specialist clinics.
• Contribute to neonatal transport advice and activity in accordance with competence, service need and the agreed job plan.
• Work collaboratively with maternity, fetal medicine, paediatric surgery, radiology, cardiology, ophthalmology, pharmacy, pathology, community and network colleagues.
• Promote Family Integrated Care, shared decision-making, compassionate communication and equitable access to services.
• Ensure accurate clinical documentation, coding and timely correspondence and undertake patient-related administration within DCC time.

Clinical governance, quality and safety

• Participate in morbidity and mortality review, governance meetings, incident review, complaints learning, audit and clinical effectiveness activity.
• Support guideline development, implementation of evidence-based practice, risk management and learning from deaths.

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