Respiratory Interest Senior Clinical Fellow in Neonatology
Closing date: 15 June 2026
We look forward to a Senior Clinical Fellow joining our multidisciplinary St George’s neonatal Ventilation Team led by Dr Sandeep Shetty.
The postholder must be skilled and enthusiastic with extensive neonatal experience in tertiary level neonatal units. This post is most suited to doctors who have finished their neonatal training, are close to finishing or have extensive experience in tertiary neonatal units. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate substantial interest in neonatal ventilation and neonatal respiratory research.
This post is either 6 or 12 months long and taking applicants for September 2026 or as soon as available to commence.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will lead on neonatal respiratory research and quality improvement projects, have opportunities to present at conferences leading to publications and gain tertiary level neonatal medical and surgical clinical experience. They will be expected to learn and perform lung ultrasound. The neonatal unit’s Ventilation Team was nominated for a BAPM (British Association of Perinatal Medicine) award in 2022 under Best Local Project category for its innovative respiratory support care. The team comprises neonatal nurses, nurse educators, ANNPs and medical physicists.
About us
The unit currently has 12 intensive care cots, 12 high dependency and 16 special care cots. We have over 500 admissions/year (excluding transitional care) and >12,000 cot days per annum. 40% of babies are in‑utero or ex‑utero transfers, and over a quarter of all admissions have a surgical condition. 8% of babies are <27 weeks gestation. We care for all conditions requiring intensive care support, except complex cardiac and ECMO cases. Available facilities include conventional and high frequency ventilation, neurally‑adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA), inhaled nitric oxide, echocardiography, POCUS, complex imaging and neuroimaging, CFM, EEG, and up to three cots for therapeutic hypothermia. Other specialist paediatric services include infectious diseases, respiratory medicine with long‑term ventilation, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, radiology, neurology, genetics, endocrinology, community paediatrics, ENT, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, haematology, oncology and gastroenterology, respiratory medicine, as well as a visiting cardiologist. We work closely with the fetal and maternal medicine department who provide a supra‑regional service in fetal medicine.
Job responsibilities
St. Georges is a busy London surgical tertiary neonatal unit that works closely with its nationally commissioned specialist Fetal Medicine Unit. We offer all modes of respiratory support and are the only UK neonatal unit to offer Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) ventilation and non‑invasive ventilation (NIV) to all infants. NAVA provides synchronized proportionate inflations by detecting electrical activity of the diaphragm via a modified nasogastric tube. From June 2019 we implemented NAVA such that all our respiratory support devices have since been replaced by SERVO‑n Maquet Getinge ventilators, the only device on the market that delivers neonatal NAVA. A comprehensive programme has successfully delivered the project, made it routine care (QI Storyboard: Introducing NAVA). The neonatal respiratory service collaborates with the Paediatric Respiratory team, fetal and paediatric cardiologists, neonatologists certified in echocardiography who also perform POCUS including lung ultrasound.
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Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
- Full registration with GMC
- MBBS, MRCP or MRCPCH or equivalent
- Ideas for a research project
Experience
- Tertiary neonatal experience in the UK
- NLS provider
- NHS experience
- NLS Instructor
- CCST or CCT in Paediatrics (Neonatal Medicine) or equivalent on specialist register by equivalence
- Child Safeguarding level 3 training
Skills
- Sound experience of advanced neonatal procedures
- Special interest in neonatal ventilation and neonatal respiratory research
- Enthusiasm to teach skills to others
Knowledge
- Higher knowledge in neonatology
- Child safeguarding
- Willingness to learn
- Evidence of involvement in multi‑disciplinary audit
- Understanding of Clinical Governance issues
Personal
- Ability to work in a Multi‑disciplinary team
- Commitment to continuing medical education
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good organisational skills
- Flexible approach
- Supportive nature
- Ability to self‑motivate and motivate others
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.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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