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 (
[email protected])
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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 (
[email protected])
a. Facilities for study and training: There is a dedicated open plan office space with computers and printing facilities. The hospital has a libarary with round the clock access and doctors are able to access online journals via the NHS portal. Teaching and training is supported by a comprehensive programme as listed in the next section.
b. Teaching, audit and research: The neonatal unit has a structured teaching a training programme. Teaching opportunities are listed below
Tuesday 1 pm
Junior doctor teaching
WEDNESDAY 1200
SEPTIC SPOT (Infectious disease ward round)
1230
NEONATAL X-RAY MEETING
1600
PAEDIATRIC GRAND ROUND
THURSDAY 1300
NEONATAL GRAND ROUND
FRIDAY 1300
JOURNAL CLUB or CASE-BASED DISCUSSION (alternate weeks)
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