2026/88 Locum Consultant Neonatologist
Locum Consultant Neonatologist
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Rotunda Hospital \& Children's Health Ireland
Job Specification and Terms \& Conditions
Job Title
Locum Consultant Neonatologist
Campaign Reference
2026/88
Closing Date
Friday June 19, 2026, 5pm.
Taking up Appointment
August 2026\. The position is offered for an initial six\-month term, with the possibility of extension subject to service requirements.
Hours
The Rotunda Hospital and Children's Health Ireland are seeking to fill this Locum Consultant Neonatologist post on a temporary basis \- 18\.5 hours per week at The Rotunda Hospital and 18\.5 hours per week at Children's Health Ireland across the Temple Street and Crumlin sites.
Location of Post
The Rotunda Hospital is located in Dublin 1, in close approximation to CHI at Temple St.
Children's Health Ireland (CHI), comprises of the three children's hospitals at CHI at Crumlin, Dublin 12, CHI at Temple Street, Dublin 1 and CHI at Tallaght, Dublin 24 and the Paediatric Outpatients and Urgent Care Centre, CHI at Connolly Hospital, Dublin 15\. The new OPD and Emergency Care Unit in Tallaght opened in Nov 2021\.
CHI's Programme Office, CHI Herberton is located in Rialto, Dublin 8 adjacent to the new children's hospital which is on the campus shared with St James's Hospital.
Children's Health Ireland across the Temple Street and Crumlin sites.
Context/ Background
The Rotunda is a level III Unit with up to 9000 deliveries annually. The Neonatal Unit (including Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, High Dependency Unit and Special Care Baby Unit) has more than 1200 admissions every year with 120 to 140 babies below 1500g (very low birth weight infants). The Rotunda is the biggest provider of the care for VLBW infants in Ireland. The NICU provides highly specialised care including high frequency oscillation, inhaled Nitric Oxide and Total Body Cooling. Due to its proximity to CHI at Temple St and the Mater Hospital, The Rotunda neonatal unit is a referral unit for antenatally diagnosed surgical abnormalities especially neurosurgical anomalies and a site for delivery of mothers with congenital cardiac defects.
The neonatal service in Rotunda also includes fully functioning outpatient department clinics with both neonatal and neurodevelopmental follow up for Rotunda graduates.
Children's Health Ireland (CHI) operates as a single service across the existing Dublin children's hospitals, Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght. Also, the paediatric outpatients and urgent care centres, Connolly which opened in July 2019 and Tallaght which opened in November 2021\. CHI governs and operates local paediatric services for the Greater Dublin Area and all national paediatric specialist services, some of which are on an all\-island basis.
- Just under 25% of our population are children under 18 years of age. It was estimated in 2016 that 16% of our children have a chronic disease, such as, diabetes, allergies and asthma and this was increasing. 2% are acutely ill or have complex and multiple care needs requiring national services.
- CHI currently has a staff of 4,150 delivering care annually to 334,500 children, young people and their families through 39 clinical specialities and 442 in\-patient \& day care beds.
Children's Hospital Programme is a major programme of work led by CHI, focused on transformative service change to enhance services for children, young people and their families, to integrate the three existing hospitals, while maintaining existing and new services, ensuring patient safety and quality until transition is complete.
*For further information about CHI, check out our recruitment website* *WWW.CHI.jobs*
Reporting Arrangements
As per POCC 2023 the Consultant's reporting relationship and accountability for the discharge of his/her contract is:
i) To the Master / Chief Executive Officer of the hospital through his/her Clinical Director.
Key Working Relationships
Clinical Directors across the three Children's hospitals and new Paediatric OPD and Urgent Care Centres.
With the Master and head of department of the Neonatal unit in the Rotunda Hospital
Clinical colleagues within the cross\-city Neonatology department
Clinical Lead for Neonatology and Clinical Leads for the other Paediatric and Neonatology Clinical Programme and the Integrated Care Programme for Children
Scope of the Role
The Rotunda Hospital is the busiest maternity hospital in the State. The appointee will join the existing team of Consultant Neonatologists delivering inpatient and outpatient care to infants born in the Rotunda and those referred from external sites.
Children's Health Ireland (CHI) Neonatology at Temple Street and Crumlin is a quaternary referral service for infants born at any of the 19 maternity units in Ireland who require specialist care. Across the two sites, all paediatric subspecialties for neonates with complex needs and congenital abnormalities are provided for. The neonatal consultant team also provide care for infants with common acute neonatal problems presenting to their sites via ED up to 7 days after delivery.The appointee will join the existing team of Consultant Neonatologists delivering inpatient and outpatient care to infants referred neonatal service at CHI.
A twenty\-four hour on call service is provided on both sites.
Integration of neonatal services is a key priority over the coming years prior to the opening of the new Children's hospital. There is increasing cross\-site collaboration with the neonatal services at both sides. The development of guidelines and shared practice as well as shared roles and the promotion of a neonatal ethos across CHI for this patient group are strategic priorities. A 2\-year project to develop the neonatal service Educational and CPD activities are shared with both CHI and maternity services including grand rounds and journal clubs.
Medical student, NCHD and extended team teaching is a core part of the consultant role on both sites.
Purpose of the Role
This role is to contribute to the running of the neonatal services in the Rotunda Hospital including ongoing education and service developments.
This role is being developed as part of workforce reconfiguration within the neonatal department at CHI as the service transitions towards delivery of the neonatal Model of Care for the new Children's Hospital which will include an 18 bedded NICU.
Currently intensive care for neonatal patients is provided in the paediatric intensive care setting. Some high dependency and all ward level care is under the governance of the neonatal service with the majority of patients having shared care with surgical and specialist colleagues. It is anticipated that further substantive posts will be part of ongoing reconfiguration as the neonatal service evolves.
Educational and CPD activities are shared with both CHI and maternity services including grand rounds and journal clubs. Medical student, NCHD and extended team teaching is a core part of the consultant role on both sites.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
The successful applicant, as an appropriately trained specialist in Neonatology will assume a full clinical role in the stabilisation, investigation and clinical management of patients presenting with the full spectrum of Neonatology requirements. The responsibilities at each site will include:
Act as Locum Consultant Neonatologist for The Rotunda Hospital and Children's Health Ireland
The responsibilities within OPD will include delivery of patient care, supervision of junior colleagues in training, sharing administrative duties and contributing to the educational programme within the department of Neonatology
Clinical management of the department of Neonatology, in conjunction with other Neonatology Consultant colleagues. The precise division of responsibilities between the Consultants in Neonatology will be agreed between the Consultant, Speciality lead, the Clinical Director and the Master/CEO or their appropriate delegate. These responsibilities will be reviewed on an annual basis
Participation in the consultant on\-call rota in the Neonatology Department of the Rotunda Hospital and one of the existing children's hospitals and subsequently in the Neonatology Department of the new hospital at St James' campus.
To undertake essential supporting duties for clinical care including, *inter alia*, risk management, critical incident investigation and oversight of rosters.
Undertake Child Protection duties associated with the role of Locum Consultant in Neonatology and services provided at the hospital. The Locum Consultant Neonatologist will play a lead role in ensuring systems are in place for the care of other at\-risk or vulnerable neonatology patient groups.
To participate in the Clinical Directorate structure. The Consultant shall receive training and support to enable him/her to participate fully in such structures
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