Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Locum Consultant in Neonatal Medicine

The closing date is 22 November 2026

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.

About us
Thank you for your interest in joining the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership. This is an exciting time to become part of one of the UK's largest and most innovative neonatal services. Together, Liverpool Women's Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital provide an integrated tertiary neonatal service combining neonatal intensive care, surgery, cardiology, fetal medicine, education and research. We are committed to compassionate, family-centred care and to supporting our staff to thrive through education, innovation, leadership and research.

Why join the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership?

• Work across two internationally recognised specialist hospitals.
• Integrated 68-cot tertiary neonatal service.
• Opportunity to develop a brand-new neonatal surgical intensive care unit.
• Large, supportive consultant team with resident consultant working.
• One of the UK's largest Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner workforces.
• Excellent teaching, research and leadership opportunities.
• Strong multidisciplinary collaboration across specialties.

Details
Date posted: 06 November 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum (dependant on experience)
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 159-LWH-281-26

Job locations
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Crown Street, Liverpool, L8 7SS, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualification

• Essential: Primary medical degree of a recognised University
• Essential: Full registration and Licence to Practice with the GMC
• Essential: Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health or equivalent
• Essential: 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.
• Essential: Evidence of advanced clinical skills in neonatal medicine
• Essential: 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
• Essential: Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
• Essential: Ability to organise advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
• Desirable: Experience in the development of clinical guidelines
• Desirable: Experience of audit
• Desirable: Management training

Teaching experience

• Essential: Experience of teaching undergraduates
• Essential: Experience of teaching and supervising SHOs
• Essential: Experience of supervising SpRs
• Essential: Enthusiasm for teaching at all levels
• Desirable: Current certificate as NLS, APLS, PALS, ARNI instructor
• Desirable: Postgraduate qualification in education
• Desirable: 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]
• Desirable: Evidence of experience in research supervision

Presentation skills

• Essential: Experience of presenting to audiences using visual aids
• Desirable: Presentation to learned societies
• Desirable: 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.
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Crown Street, Liverpool, L8 7SS, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Consultant Neonatologist, Jill Harrison, jill.harrison@lwh.nhs.uk, 01517089988

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