Locum Consultant in Neonatal Medicine: Sponsorship Available

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated Locum Consultants in Neonatal Medicine to join the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership. The successful applicants will provide consultant-led neonatal intensive care, high dependency care and special care across Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, antenatal counselling, participation in resident and non-resident consultant rotas, education, research and service development.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide consultant-led neonatal care across both sites, including resident consultant nights at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and non-resident on-call duties at Alder Hey. Consultants will contribute to outpatient care, antenatal counselling, governance, audit, education, quality improvement and service development.

1.5 SPA sessions per week for CPD, appraisal, governance, teaching and audit.

Additional SPA for agreed leadership or educational roles.

Potential involvement with Connect North West neonatal transport.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

  • 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

Desirable

  • Higher degree e.g., MD or PhD

Clinical Experience

Essential

  • 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

Desirable

  • Evidence of skills in neonatal transport

Management and administrative experience

Essential

  • 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

Desirable

  • Experience in the development of clinical guidelines
  • Experience of audit
  • Management training

Teaching experience

Essential

  • Experience of teaching undergraduates
  • Experience of teaching and supervising SHOs
  • Experience of supervising SpRs
  • Enthusiasm for teaching at all levels

Desirable

  • Current certificate as NLS, APLS, PALS, ARNI instructor
  • Postgraduate qualification in education
  • Experience of coordinating educational programmes

Research experience

Essential

  • Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems

Desirable

  • Research activity leading to a higher degree [MD (UK) PhD or MPhil]
  • Evidence of experience in research supervision

Presentation skills

Essential

  • Experience of presenting to audiences using visual aids

Desirable

  • Presentation to learned societies
  • Commissioned lectures to professional bodies

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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