Consultant Republic of Ireland HSE Neonatologist Paediatric & Neonatal in Leinster Region on a fixed term / permanent basis; working for our client via Workplace Doctors

*** Must have IMC (Specialist Division) Registration (Irish Medical Council) - Essential
*** Location: Republic of Ireland - Leinster Region (Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Longford, Westmeath, Offaly, Laois, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Cavan)
***Speciality: Paediatrics & Neonates Neonatal Paediatrician Neonatologist 

*** Role: Consultant (6+ years post graduate experience)

*** Duration: 12 months (FREE visa & work permit + relocation package offered)

*** Start date: ASAP

***IELTS Score of 7.0 Overall (minimum) – Essential

***Exact location details provided on application

*** Pay rate: €217,235 to €261,051 Euro’s (dependent on experience) basic salary (allowances paid extra)

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Overview

The local neonatal unit is within the Maternity Unit of our client’s hospital facility. Neonatal intensive Care is available for 4 Neonates, alongside 5 high-dependency cots. There are state of the art monitors, and facilities for HFOV, cooling therapy and cerebral ultrasound. The delivery rate is approximately 4,000 deliveries per year. The unit is fully staffed by trained neonatal nurses with a high recruitment and retention record. The unit is supported by a pharmacist, medical technicians, dietician, physiotherapist and speech & language therapist. Separate middle grade and SHO cover are provided at all times.

The post holder will be expected to cover Neonatal services on an attending rota provide twice daily ward rounds. Infants requiring specialist surgical and cardiac care are transferred out to other providers. There is an excellent NTS service to support such transfers. Close links are maintained with the Obstetric Department. There is a Foetal Assessment Unit on-site, and a Consultant Obstetrician with a special expertise in high risk pregnancy. Close links are maintained through the National Neonatal Network, with the hospital as the neonatal intensive care and surgical unit. Babies expected to be born at less than 27 weeks gestation, or to have complex medical or surgical needs, are electively transferred in utero to a nearby hospital, in line with network agreements.

The unit currently has 7 intensive care cots, 12 high dependency and 16 special care cots. There are approximately 600 admissions and > 12,000 cot days per annum. 40% of babies are in-utero or ex-utero transfers; and over a quarter of all admissions have a surgical condition. 8% of babies are <27 weeks gestation. The unit cares for all conditions requiring intensive care support, except complex cardiac and ECMO cases. Available facilities include conventional and high frequency ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide, echocardiography, complex imaging and neuro-imaging, CFM, EEG, and two cooling cots. Other specialist paediatric services include infectious diseases, ophthalmology, radiology, neurology, genetics, endocrinology, community paediatrics, ENT, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, haematology, oncology, gastroenterology and respiratory medicine, as well as a visiting cardiologist. The service works closely with the fetal and maternal medicine department who provide a supra-regional service in fetal medicine. Allied services include physiotherapy, dietetics, audiology and speech therapy and there is an excellent Child Development Centre located within the hospital.

Please note that full IMC registration and license to practice is an essential for this role. If you do not currently have IMC registration, but you are in the process of applying, please use the supporting information section of the application form to provide an update about the status of your IMC application.

Candidates without IMC registration at the time of shortlisting will not be considered- as per hospital requirements.

Additional Information

You will be able to take advantage of the excellent Consultant contract for the Republic of Ireland. The basic salary range for this post is euros €217,235 to €261,051 Euro’s per annum plus a further euro 26,672 per annum available in Commitment Awards.

Specific Duties

This is a post arisen as a result of a vacancy within the Department. We are seeking a post holder with expertise in Neonatology that could augment the current provision of services within the Department. The post holder would be expected to play a significant role in the management and development of the unit, acting as liaison with the Neonatal Network. They would be expected in due course to assume the lead role for neonatal services.

The successful candidate is expected to provide a strong visible presence across the organisation, be a role model of good leadership and effective communication at individual, team, directorate and whole organisation level. They are expected to help shape the development of the Department and to share the long term vision for a safe and sustainable service, in line with the current developments. The post is built around a 10 programmed activity job plan (see below).

The attending Consultant will cover the neonatal unit from 8 am to 5 pm on a 1:4 rota. The other weeks include outpatient clinics and admin sessions. Annual leave will be covered internally. On call commitment is 1 in 12 with internal cover. When on call, the post holder is expected to cross cover General Paediatrics, Neonatology and Paediatric emergencies within ED. When on call, the post holder is expected to be on site until 22:00 hrs to ensure compliance with Quality standards of on- site consultant presence during hours of peak activity.

The neonatal service intends to work more closely with the lead units in the neonatal network to improve training, consistency in care and governance across the network. As a first step in this initiative, this post holder will be expected to work some attending weeks on the tertiary neonatal unit at the hospital. The post holder will be supported to do attending weeks on the high dependency unit of the neonatal intensive care unit, and, depending on the expertise of the appointee, may have opportunities to work on the intensive care area as well. During these periods, Consultant Neonatologists from hospital will cover the neonatal unit at the nearby hospital.

As a senior employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:-

§ The provision of a first class clinical service

§ Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

§ Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with the hospitals procedures

§ Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

§ Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

§ Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Clinical:

· Where specified, the Consultant is expected to provide continuity of care for all the patients coming through the neonatal service over their attending weeks. They provide support and are available for all neonatal emergencies during the specified time period.

· The post holder is expected to take on and lead in a special interest to augment those already provided within the Department

· They would be required to cover the General Paediatrics and Paediatric Emergency Departments as well when on call and over weekends.

· The Consultant would do at least 2 Paediatric Outpatient clinic weekly when not attending to include general paediatric problems. The post holder is expected to support junior doctors and nursing colleagues in the performance of their duties

· The postholder is expected to provide support to the maternity service in planning the management of preterm deliveries and women with complicated pregnancies.

· While on service at the hospital the post holder will be expected to cover the high dependency area as attending consultant. The HDU consultant works closely with the other 2 attending consultants to plan patient care across the unit, while providing direct care to the patients on the 12 bed HDU. They will attend complex deliveries with the junior medical team, and provide counselling to mothers on the delivery suite. The HDU caters to a large number of complex surgical and medical patients. Many patients are shared care with paediatric surgical and medical specialists, with the lead being provided by the neonatal consultants.

· The delivery suite at the hospital provides high risk obstetric care supporting many regional and supra-regional obstetric and fetal medicine services. The neonatal consultant will attend deliveries where complex neonatal care and resuscitation is expected to be required.

Teaching Commitments

·       regular commitments to ward based teaching of undergraduates.

·       participation in the lecture programmes for 2^nd and 4^th & 5^th year medical students.

·       teaching of other groups as required including other specialty juniors and specialist nurses.

Job Plan

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee, the Operational Medical Director and Lead Paediatrics & Neonates Consultant, on behalf of the Trust’s Medical Director, based on the provisional timetable. This will be signed by the Chief Executive and will be effective from the commencement date of the appointment.

It will be reviewed at 3 months & thereafter annually or at any time, but no less than 3 months after a previous review, as requested by the appointee, Operational Medical Director or Clinical Lead & adjusted accordingly to the agreement of both parties.

On appointment of the post holder, the Clinical Director or CBU lead will commence discussions to finalise the job plan which will become operational on appointment. The job plan is an indicative plan of the duties the post holder is likely to be asked to undertake. Additional programmed activities may be offered to the post holder. Any offer of additional programmed activities will be based on the needs of the service and in line with the Trust objectives and will be reviewed on an annual basis.

Standard Duties and responsibilities

a) To participate in development of and undertake all duties and functions pertinent to the Consultant’s area of competence, as set out within the Clinical Directorate Service Plan  and in line with policies as specified by the Employer.

b) To ensure that duties and functions are undertaken in a manner that minimises delays for patients and possible disruption of services.

c) To work within the framework of the hospital / agency’s service plan and/or levels of service (volume, types etc.) as determined by the Employer. Service planning for individual clinical services will be progressed through the Clinical Directorate structure or other arrangements as apply.

d) To co-operate with the expeditious implementation of the Disciplinary Procedure 

e) To formally review the execution of the Clinical Directorate Service Plan with the Clinical Director / Employer periodically. The Clinical Directorate Service Plan shall be reviewed periodically at the request of the Consultant or Clinical Director / Employer. The Consultant may initially seek internal review of the determinations of the Clinical Director regarding the Service Plan.

f) To participate in the development and operation of the Clinical Directorate structure and in such management or representative structures as are in place or being developed. The Consultant shall receive training and support to enable him/her to participate fully in such structures.

g) To provide, as appropriate, consultation in the Consultant’s area of designated expertise in respect of patients of other Consultants at their request.

h) To ensure in consultation with the Clinical Director that appropriate medical cover is available at all times having due regard to the implementation of the European Working Time Directive as it relates to doctors in training.

i) To supervise and be responsible for diagnosis, treatment and care provided by non-Consultant Hospital Doctors (NCHDs) treating patients under the Consultant’s care.

j) To participate as a right and obligation in selection processes for non-Consultant Hospital Doctors and other staff as appropriate. The Employer will provide training as required. The Employer shall ensure that a Consultant representative of the relevant specialty / sub-specialty is involved in the selection process. 

k) To participate in clinical audit and proactive risk management and facilitate production of all data/information required for same in accordance with regulatory, statutory and corporate policies and procedures.

l) To participate in and facilitate production of all data/information required to validate delivery of duties and functions and inform planning and management of service delivery

Essential Requirements

This post is open to doctors who hold Registration as a Specialist in the Specialist Division of the Registrar of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the specialty of General Paediatrics & Neonates

Office Accommodation

Office accommodation will be provided for the appointee with secretarial support

Management Responsibility

All Consultants are required to attend the monthly Directorate Meetings. Post holders will be expected to share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the Directorate. As part of the Consultant Team, the consultant  will offer mentoring support and lead the existing clinical team through; joint clinics, one-to-one support, individual case management and complex cases, identifying development needs and suggesting CPD (Continuous Professional Development) opportunities and responding to clinical enquiries via e-mail and telephone.

Service Provision and Cover during Absences

The consultant has a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and for the proper functioning of the service allowing for appropriate delegation for the training of his/her staff.

He/she must be available by telephone and able to attend the hospital in a timely fashion when on-call (40 minutes journey time).

Consultant staff must ensure that services are covered during his/her planned absences. Where fixed commitments need to be cancelled during planned absences appropriate notice (8 weeks) must be given. Absences must be co-ordinated with other consultant staff in the specialty to ensure senior cover is always available.

If you are interested in working in growing your career and increasing your income, then talk to our healthcare team today. If you can fill the above requirements, we will give you the following benefits:

*** Visa & Work Permit for FREE!

*** Guidance, Training & Career Development

*** Dedicated & Supportive team- Consultant available when you need.

*** Excellent Basic Pay, Overtime paid for extra hours
***Assistance provided with relocation

We look forward to helping you progress your career and find you the ideal position.

The hospital welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion- essentially the applicant must meet the criteria mentioned above

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Call us today on +44 (0) 1234 889213 to discuss this vacancy or email your CV to info@workplacedoctors.co.uk  or apply online today (see below).

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