Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Description

Please see the full Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work

The neonatal trainees are responsible for the care of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, on the postnatal wards and in the labour ward.

They are expected to participate in ward rounds, neonatal-obstetric meetings, paediatric training meetings, and the weekly neonatal multidisciplinary liaison meeting.

They are responsible for completing neonatal discharge summaries.

Experience will be gained in neonatal resuscitation and transport, neonatal intensive care and neonatal developmental follow-up in a multi-disciplinary team.

Trainees are expected to become proficient in technical skills including intravenous cannulation; insertion of umbilical and percutaneous venous lines and learning the basics of cranial ultrasound is encouraged.

Clinical duties include:

Participation in the consultant rounds and leading wards rounds alone

Supervision of and participation in daily record keeping, updating of results supervision of junior trainee summaries and completion of complex summaries.

Assistance to junior trainees on labour ward, and postnatal wards. Liaison with paramedical staff and social services.

Assessment of new neonatal referrals in Monday Neonatal Clinic and follow up of specific cases from the postnatal wards and neonatal unit.

Social and Parental support

Communication with parents of infants on the neonatal unit and presentation of cases at the neonatal unit multi-disciplinary psychosocial meeting.

Neonatal procedures

Proficiency is expected in the following: Central venous catheterisation (long line and umbilical venous lines), Arterial catheterisation (umbilical and peripheral arterial lines)

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