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Job overview

The neonatal unit is a “local neonatal unit” (previously level II) and is part of the NW London neonatal Network. The hospital has around 5,000 deliveries per year. There are 28 cot spaces of which 5 are funded for intensive care. The unit cares for all babies born at ≥27weeks gestation and has around 1200 intensive care days per year. Nitric oxide, active cooling and cardiac echo are available on site. The post is a supporting post .The appointee will join a team of 16 junior doctors led by 6.2 Consultants Neonatologists at the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust and the post is an appointment at Northwick Park Hospital. The candidate will be required to provide a comprehensive service covering all aspects of the specialty and will be expected to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

The aim of the Directorate is to provide integrated preventive, curative and long-term follow-up services for all children up to the age of 16 years both in the community and in hospital, in the most appropriate setting. We will treat adolescents over 16 where appropriate, particularly those with chronic illness or mental health problems and provide shared care for young adults presenting with oncological problems until their 18^th birthday where appropriate.

The objectives of the Directorate are: 

• To achieve further development of the Directorate in terms of integration of its complex elements
• Undertake multi-disciplinary work with mutual respect and support
• To develop business plans for each of the areas within the Directorate
• Establish an academic profile for the Directorate in terms of high quality teaching and research
• Acquire the administrative resources needed to fulfil our ambitions
• Define effective information flows within and without the Directorate by exploiting all available technologies

Working for our organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.  

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.