Job overview

This post is at Birmingham Women’s Site of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, one of the busiest tertiary maternity and neonatal clinical and academic centres in the West Midlands. The Neonatal Service is a Neonatal Intensive Care Referral unit within the South West Midlands Neonatal Network and provides experience in all modern treatment modalities. The hospital is the Perinatal Centre for the West Midlands. There are 8000 deliveries annually including a significant proportion of high risk cases. The Regional Fetal Medicine and Genetics Services are on site and there is cross-site working with Neonatal Surgery at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, with pre and postoperative surgical neonates and preoperative cardiac cases managed at BWH.  The Neonatal Unit currently has 12 intensive care, 9 high dependency and 20 special care cots which run at 100 % occupancy for most of the time, plus Special and Transitional Care cots, with a total of 57 cots, providing a busy and varied service. There are plentiful Educational and Research opportunities on site and particular interests will be facilitated.  

Main duties of the job

Applications are invited for the post of Simulation Fellow within the department of Neonates.  This is a full time post is to commence  September 2025 for a period of 12 months. 50% of time will be dedicated to simulation teaching, development of courses and enhancing education and patient care within the neonatal unit and deanery. The remaining 50% will be clinical work on the neonatal unit, participating on the tier 2 on call rota. There is a possibility that there will be opportunity to undertake simulation at the Birmingham Children’s site and if so the time spend on simulation and the clinical rota will adjust accordingly.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.