Neonatologist

Position Summary

The Department of Pediatrics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)/ North Carolina Children’s Hospital is seeking an individual for a 0.5 FTE, non-tenure track faculty position in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. The faculty member will provide inpatient clinical services for approximately one week each month primarily in the Special Care Nursery (SCN) at Nash UNC Health Care.

This level II neonatal intensive care unit serves Rocky Mount, North Carolina and surrounding counties admitting close to 200 patients per year. Nash UNC is affiliated with the University of North Carolina, a qua ternary referral centre to which Nash UNC is linked by teleconferencing, for the purpose of consultations and continuing medical education. The SCN at Nash UNC Health Care is housed in the Women’s Center, a new facility opened in May 2016.

The Women’s Center is a 47,048 square foot building designed in consultation with mother‑baby experts, community members, and new parents, the Women’s Center gives new families a “hotel like” experience. The facility features six labour and delivery suites with private bathrooms, a dedicated caesarean section suite with a spacious recovery room, 16 soothing mother‑baby post‑partum rooms with private bathrooms and ample space for family and friends and a large, innovative Special Care Nursery.

The Special Care Nursery is comprised of twelve individual rooms for infant patients that include sleeping accommodations, private bathrooms, and hot meals for family members who are encouraged to stay with their babies. The unit is designed to care for the intermediate neonate, stable growing premature infant and readmitted infants