Job Description
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Round on all NICU babies
Attend high risk deliveries (typically 67 shifts /
month)
Back up the Pediatric Hospitalist as requested
Attend High Risk Followup Clinic once per
month for a half day
Attend Medical Staff Meetings (General, Peds, Perinatal M&M)
Serve on Medical
Staff Committees as requested (usually 1 committee)
Cover 10 shifts/year at 2nd facility: UCSF
Benioff Childrens Hospital, Oakland
DETAILS:
Level 3 16bed NICU
All highrisk deliveries <35 weeks
gestation are covered by the Neonatologist
Highrisk deliveries >35 weeks are shared between the
Hospitalists and the Neonatologists
NICU averages about 170 admissions per year
Average daily
census is approximately 78
The NICU manages infants >28 weeks gestation and provides short term
conventional ventilation and BCPAP
Typically 78 hrs a day are spent doing NICU care with roughly 4-6
hrs being on rounds and the remainder attending high risk deliveries.
Day shift is from 7AM through
5PM. The night shift begins at 5PM and ends 7AM the following day
Call is from home
When not on
service, rounding, attending deliveries or meetings it is not the expectation to remain in
house
Expect to be called in for a delivery once or twice every third time on call though this may
be quite variable. Typically, <1 telephone call should be expected between the hours of 5pm and
7am
Neonatologist is expected to cover 24 weekends per year, and a share of the major
holidays
COMMUNITY:
Located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area
Commutable form
Sacramento or San Francisco
Easily accessible to major highways such as I80 and I-680
Convenient
proximity to the Napa Valley wine region as well
REQUIREMENTS:
BC/BE Neonatology
NRP instructor
course completion and facility in all NRP procedures (including intubation and UVC placement)
Core
procedures including, but not limited to: ETT, UAC, UVC, LP, Chest Tube placement and circumcision
Additional Information:
- Specialty: Neonatology
- Location: Fairfield, California
- Contact: Robert Miranda (Managing Partner)
About the Company:
It’s Personal With Us
In a world that’s increasingly automated, where it’s difficult to get a live
person on a customer service phone line, where we tweet and update our Facebook feeds and send
emails rather than actually talking to one another, here at Inspire Healthcare we believe in a
couple of things:Â
We believe that personal relationships are imperative.
We believe that personal
relationships are imperative.
In short, we believe in our company’s name: Inspire Healthcare.
“This
is all well and good,” you’re probably saying to yourself. “But everyone says this. Show me this
inspiration!”
What Inspire Healthcare Provides Our Clients and Candidates
We offer our physician and
healthcare staffing services nationwide, yet we’ll get to know each other so well, we’ll give you
our contact information and cell phone numbers so that you may call us anytime, any day, anywhere.
We’re available to you 24/7/365.
These personal relationships mean we’ll get to know you better than
any other staffing service ever has before. We decided long ago to focus our energies on recruiting
physicians and other healthcare professionals for a primary care setting. This focus means we don’t
wander about looking for “the next big thing.”
Instead, that “big thing” includes your needs, your
goals and providing you with the utmost in personal attention and customer service.
Honesty,
Objectivity, Competency and a Focus on Customer Service
That’s Inspire Healthcare