Consultant in Neonatal Paediatrics (interest in Cardiology)

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Consultant in Neonatal Paediatrics (interest in Cardiology)

The closing date is 05 July 2026

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Neonatology department at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and the family feel valued during their visits to the Trust.

This is a whole time equivalent substantive Neonatal consultant post with interest in Neonatal Cardiology and the successful applicant will share the responsibilities for providing acute neonatal care at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. Outpatient clinics are based at the Lister Hospital and QE2 Hospital in Welwyn Garden City. Our Neonatal unit is a local neonatal unit (LNU) part of East of England (EOE) Neonatal Network. The successful candidate is expected to independently perform murmur clinic with the skills of independently performing ECHO. The post comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs) and includes an on-call commitment of 1:7 exclusive for the Local Neonatal Unit. There is no Acute paediatric commitment to this post.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will join the 6 Neonatal consultants in the delivery of neonatal care and participate in a 1:7 on call rota for weekdays and weekends. There will be no Acute Paediatric commitments; however, the post holder will perform Paediatric cardiology clinic work in collaboration with the Trust Paediatric Cardiology lead and the cardiology network. When covering the intensive and high dependency care areas the consultant will conduct daily ward rounds in these areas and be available at all times for help, advice and discussion with staff or parents.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Qualifications / Training

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register / and Full GMC registration with a Licence to Practice
• MBBS and MRCPCH or qualification of an equivalent level
• Paediatric CCT with the interest in Neonatology, should have done SPIN training (18 months) in Neonates (or equivalent) training and 6-12 months of Paediatric Cardiology training/experience at Registrar level or senior level
• Interest in Paediatric and Neonatal cardiology (PECSIG or PEC) /NICHe and ability to independently perform Echocardiogram (ECHO) with or without the EACVI/AEPC Echo CHD Certification.

Previous Experience

• Broad range of experience in Neonatology and General Paediatrics with Paediatric Cardiology training/experience at Registrar level
• Minimum of 18 months neonatal experience in a level 3 unit (Tertiary) at Registrar level or senior level or at least 3 years' experience at registrar level or senior level working in a local Neonatal unit (LNU) AND Minimum of 6 months of Paediatric Cardiology training/experience at Registrar level or senior level (PECSIG or PEC)/NICHe and have skills to perform Echocardiogram (ECHO) independently with or without the EACVI/AEPC Echo CHD Certification.
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• NLS/ARNI provider

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust