Main area Neonatal Grade Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 10 sessions per week (Plus 3% on call allowance) Job ref 159-LWH-251-26
Employer Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust Town Liverpool Salary £113,565 – £150,569 per annum (dependant on experience) Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59
Consultant in Neonatal Medicine
Consultant
Liverpool Women’s NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
At Liverpool Women’s Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.
We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes us the specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.
Liverpool Women’s has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.
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Job overview
Liverpool Women’s Hospital is seeking a consultant in Neonates to join its team at Liverpool Women’s and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital partnership. Fixed clinical sessions providing neonatal intensive care, neonatal high dependency care and neonatal special care with resident nights on call at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, as well as neonatal high dependency care at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The postholder will be expected to undertake follow-up of babies in outpatients, and joint antenatal counselling in the fetal medicine unit. These shifts are distributed in an annualised job plan.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital provide acute care for intensive care and high dependency babies in mixed acuity rooms. There are two consultants on for acute care between 0830 and 1700 on weekdays and 1430 on weekend days. Thereafter there is one resident consultant until 21.00 with handover to the resident night consultant 2030-0900.
There is a consultant present on the Alder Hey unit from 0830 until 20.30 on weekdays, and 0830 until 1730 on weekend days with non-resident cover overnight. Alder Hey sessions involve morning ward rounds on the Neonatal Surgical Unit and review of surgical neonatal patients on the Paediatric Intensive Care and High Dependency units, as well as ad-hoc review of referred babies on other wards.
Main duties of the job
Fixed clinical sessions providing neonatal intensive care, neonatal high dependency care and neonatal special care with resident nights on call at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, as well as neonatal high dependency care at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The postholder will be expected to undertake follow-up of babies in outpatients, and joint antenatal counselling in the fetal medicine unit. These shifts are distributed in an annualised job plan. We are in the process of establishing a clinical commitment for consultant time to Connect Northwest, the transport service which operates across the North West ODN, and there may be opportunities for the successful applicant to contribute to this service.
In line with the Trust’s Job Planning Policy, all Consultants will be allocated 1.5 core SPA sessions per week. This time will be used for participation in undergraduate and post graduate teaching, continuing professional development, mandatory training, non-patient administration, participating in clinical audit and preparation for annual appraisal and revalidation. The additional 1 SPA will be used for activities in defined roles such as the educational supervision of trainees and lead roles in service development. Neonatal research is actively encouraged and for suitable candidates 1 PA may be available to develop research activity. Any proposed research activity must be in keeping with the wider research strategy. There is a diverse consultant workforce.
Working for our organisation
The regional neonatal unit at Liverpool Women’s Hospital has 44 cots: 12 intensive care cots, 12 high dependency cots and a 20-cot low dependency area. The unit provides a state-of-the-art facility to provide world class neonatal care and is a tertiary referral centre for the Cheshire and Mersey Neonatal Network. The unit regularly accepts referrals from beyond the network with an average admission rate of more than 1200 babies per year.
As the lead NICU for the Cheshire and Mersey Neonatal Network, areas of special responsibility include the management of babies with surgical conditions, initial care of all babies with cardiac malformations requiring neonatal intervention, and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity. The unit is one of only 2 units within the network providing intensive care for extreme preterm babies (<27 weeks gestation) and providing therapeutic hypothermia.
At Liverpool Women’s Hospital there is a state-of-the-art monitoring system, electronic patient record and computerised patient data management system in place. Other equipment includes colour flow doppler, inhaled nitric oxide therapy and high frequency oscillation. Regular on-unit screening for retinopathy and hearing is carried out by visiting consultants. The unit provides a regional service for retinopathy screening and laser therapy for advanced retinopathy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details regarding job plan, role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description
Person specification
Qualification
- Primary medical degree of a recognised University
- Full registration and Licence to Practice with the GMC
- Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health or equivalent
- Inclusion in the specialist register in Paediatrics (neonatal medicine) or equivalent, or within 6 months of CCT for Paediatrics (neonatal medicine)at time of interview
- Higher degree e.g., MD or PhD
Clinical Experience
- A minimum of seven years postgraduate experience. Of this three must have been spent in appropriate training posts during higher specialist training.
- Evidence of advanced clinical skills in neonatal medicine
- Current certificate in NLS
- Evidence of skills in neonatal transport
Management and administrative experience
- Ability to organise and manage the work of a neonatal unit, including outpatients
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
- Ability to organise advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
- Experience in the development of clinical guidelines
- Experience of audit
- Management training
- Experience of risk management
Teaching experience
- Experience of teaching undergraduates
- Experience of teaching and supervising SHOs
- Experience of supervising SpRs
- Enthusiasm for teaching at all levels
- Current certificate as NLS, APLS, PALS, ARNI instructor
Research experience
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- Evidence of original work as demonstrated by publications in peer reviewed journals
- Research activity leading to a higher degree (MD (UK) PhD or MPhil)
- Evidence of experience in research supervision
- Experience in Leading research
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has a responsibility and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility and is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.
Trust policy requires the cost of DBS applications be recovered via salary. The amount of £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 0(enhanced) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement in post.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity;we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We operate Zero Tolerance to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. We will make reasonable adjustments to ensure our recruitment & selection process is accessible to all. Flexible Working applications will be considered.
Please Note: new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.
LWH has a responsibility & is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of children, young people & vulnerable adults & for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility & is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital is committed to having a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. To this end, we particularly welcome applicants from racially minoritised backgrounds, who have a disability, or are members of the Armed Forces, Reservists or Veterans.
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