Neonates Clinical Fellow ST3-5

Job Title : Neonatal Clinical Fellow Grade : ST 3-5 Specialty : Neonatal Medicine Reason for Vacancy : Previous doctor leaving Supervising Consultant : Amit Gupta Average hours work per week : 48 Base Hospital : John Radcliffe Hospital Work Pattern : Shift rota GMC requirement : Must be registered with the GMC or have a qualification which is registrable with the GMC. Details of special conditions : 2 years This is not an approved training post

Duties of post a. Aims and responsibilities: The key responsibility is to provide clinical care to babies admitted under the care of the neonatal unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital. The Oxford neonatal unit is the only level III centre in the South Central North (formerly Thames Valley) Neonatal Network and admits the full range of medical and surgical neonatal patients. Oxford is also an established regional centre for prenatal and feto-maternal medicine and neonatal surgery, including cardiac and neurosurgery. This is supervised post and the doctor would be allocated a clinical supervisor. The unit also provides experience in neonatal transport. It would be the doctor's duty to keep the clinical and educational portfolio upto date. b. Clinical: The shift rota has a total of 21w doctors on its rolls.. Study leave and holiday weeks are built into the rolling rota. Doctors are required to be present at handover ward rounds and will be primarily responsible for the delivery of the scheduled programme of care for babies in their designated clinical areas. Details of the rota can be obtained by contacting Dr Vinod Oommen (Vinod.Oommen@ouh.nhs.uk)