Junior Clinical Fellow in Neonatology

Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley is a new purpose built Level 3 Neonatal Unitwhich became operational from mid November 2010. All the maternity and Neonatal inpatient careis centralised. This post of Junior clinical fellow is based in Neonatology and vacancy is due to gap in the rota asthe clinical fellow who was in this post has moved to another hospital. The Neonatal unit at ELHThas 9 substantive Consultants. The post will be based at Burnley General Hospital. The post holder will join first on call team comprising 8 FY2 trainees, 1 Paediatric ST Trainee, 7ANNPs and 5 clinical fellows.

This post offers excellent experience and training in acute and outpatient settings. The post holderwill participate in full shift rota. The rota is compliant with new junior doctor’s contract and there are15 people on this rota with 2 persons out of hours all the time including weekends. The development of a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care service for East Lancashire was approvedby the Lancs/ S. Cumbria SHA in June 2006. The 2 neonatal services at Blackburn and Burnley came together as an East Lancs Level 3service from Nov 2010.

The new Unit is a purpose built, state of the art build, designed to thehighest specifications as per BAPM standards. The Neonatal Unit at LWNC has 6 intensive care cots, 8 high dependency cots and 20 specialcare cots with a total cot capacity of 34 cots. In addition there are 2 isolation cots. The single EastLancs unit is a level 3 Unit catering for a delivery rate of 6500 per year. The East Lancs conurbation has 3 birthing centres. It is proposed that ~5000 deliveries (mediumhigh risk) will occur on the hospital site.

The remaining ~ 1500 deliveries are managed in 3 birthingcentres, 1 co-located birth centre in Burnley on the hospital site and 2 based in the community inBlackburn and Rossendale. The neonatal Transport and Retrieval service for the Lancashire and S Cumbria zone (STARS)has ceased and moved to a Northwest footprint as CONNECT NW. NTU (Neonatal Triage Unit) - This is based at the entrance to the Postnatal Ward.

This has beenset up to address the postnatal implications of Birth centre deliveries and an A and E dept at aseparate site, for babies who for any reason, need review soon after birth, though not necessarilyqualifying for admission to NICU. This is a new innovation and probably the only one of its kind inthe country. Transitional Care (TC) Unit- This is based in Phase 5 adjacent to the postnatal wards. The TC Unitis staffed to 12 cots and is supported by a TC neonatal nurse 12 hours a day and full time byexperienced midwives. For further details / informal visits contact: Name:

Rajasri Seethamraju Job title: Consultant Email address: rajasri. seethamraju@elht. nhs. uk