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Job summary

Main area
Neonatology
Grade
MTI
Contract
24 months (Fixed Term)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
040-MTI-Neonates-2025
Employer
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Grange University Hospital
Town
Cwmbran
Salary
拢43,821 - 拢68,330 per annum/pro rata for part time
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

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International Training Fellowships in Neonatology

MTI

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

Job overview

International (Medical Training Initiative) Training Fellowships in Neonatology

听Based at The Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran, South East Wales, United Kingdom

Exciting opportunities are available for training in neonatology in the UK.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has developed the MTI(P) scheme to enable non-UK/EEA paediatricians, with MRCPCH or other postgraduate qualifications (MD Paediatrics or equivalent), to undertake high-quality postgraduate training in paediatrics for a maximum of 24 months, before returning to work in their home countries.

This advertisement is for direct application to the Health Board for the MTI posts.

The Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran, Wales is looking to award听 fellowships in Neonatal Medicine under the Medical Training Initiative (MTI) of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) for a period of 2 years starting September 2025 and January 2026. The Fellowships are available to adequately qualified doctors with post-graduate qualifications (MRCPCH, MD Paediatrics, DNB) looking for a higher specialist training in Neonatology. The first 3-6 months of the training will be at the Tier 1 (SHO equivalent) level and with expected progress, the next 18-21 months will be at the Tier 2 level (Registrar equivalent).

Main duties of the job

The Neonatal Unit of the Grange University Hospital (Aneurin Bevan University Health Board) is a Level 3 unit with 4500 days of intensive and high-dependency care and over 450 admissions per annum. It provides over 2500 days of respiratory care and has facilities for high frequency oscillatory ventilation, nitric oxide therapy and therapeutic hypothermia. The Unit has 11 full time neonatal consultants.听

The Fellowship programme will provide a very comprehensive training and experience in neonatology, with the view that the individual at the end of the programme will be able to go back to the home country as an independent neonatal practitioner. Extensive neonatal experience including management of normal delivery, complex resuscitation, management of extremely preterm babies (23 weeks onwards), various modes of ventilation including high frequency ventilation and nitric oxide therapy, echocardiography, cranial ultrasound examinations, whole body hypothermia including amplitude integrated EEG, structured neurodevelopmental assessment etc. will be gained by the end of the post.

Working for our organisation

There is an exhaustive and excellent educational programme that runs in the Unit and this includes simulation training in the acute and in communication situations. The candidate will be expected to take up audit projects, quality improvement programmes and research projects running in the unit at the time and successfully completed projects will be submitted for presentation to regional and national meetings.

The candidate will be continuously mentored and formal appraisals and assessments will be carried out as per the Royal College standards. English Language examinations with adequate marks in the IELTS/OET is essential for the posts.

For the details of the eligibility criteria, application process and the selection method, please look at the main advertisement on NHS 果冻传媒APP website and the RCPCH .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to main job description and person specification for further details around the role of International (Medical Training Initiative) Training Fellowships in Neonatology.

Person specification

Qualifications

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Eligibility

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Fitness to Practise

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Communication Skills

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Career Progression

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Stonewall Hyrwyddwr Amrywiaeth Diversity Champion

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Sue Papworth
Job title
Clinical Director and Consultant Neonatologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
+44 1633 234615
Additional information

Interested candidates are encouraged to request further information from the Neonatology Department:

Dr Gautam Bagga [email protected], Telephone +44 1633 234615

Dr Tanoj Kollamparambil [email protected], Telephone +44 1633 234615