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The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville is inviting applicants for a full-time Neonatologist position in the Division of Neonatology as Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor rank on a non-tenure accruing level based on qualifications. We are specifically searching for candidates who preferentially wish to provide care at level II neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and level I mother-baby units. Currently, members of our team provide care at the 14-bed level II NICU at Baptist Medical Center-South and the level I unit at Baptist Medical Center-Beaches. We are seeking an additional skilled neonatologist to expand coverage to a 10-bed level II NICU that opened at the Baptist Medical Center-Clay Hospital in November 2022. If desired, there is an opportunity for an individual to provide care for critically ill infants at a new 75-bed level IV NICU at Wolfson Children’s Hospital and the 48-bed level III NICU at UF Health Jacksonville. UF faculty staff both of these NICUs. The Division is an active participant in the Vermont-Oxford Network and in the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative.
All three level I/II units are staffed in-house 24/365 by advanced practice providers (APPs). The neonatologists provide hands-on care in partnership with the APPs during the week (Monday-Friday 8 hours daytime), round at the hospitals on weekends and holidays, and are available within 30 minutes of notification to arrive at the hospital at the request of an APP to assist when needed.
Under Florida stature, very premature infants (< 30 weeks’ gestational age or < 1250 grams birth weight) and infants who require medical subspecialty or surgical specialty care are transported from the level II NICUs to the level IV Wolfson Children’s Hospital (WCH) by an experienced transport team that is in-house at WCH.
This position will report to the Chief of the Division of Neonatology and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville. Following is a partial description of duties and responsibilities:
- Provide clinical critical care to neonates and newborns at the Baptist Medical Center-Clay level II NICU as assigned by the Chief, Division of Neonatology and/or designee.
- Optionally staff a limited number of rotations at the level IV/III NICUs.
- Teach and supervise the advanced practice providers.
- Participate on committees to represent the Department of Pediatrics as required by Chief, Division of Neonatology and/or designee as required.
- Participate in monthly department faculty meetings, administrative functions and institutional and hospital committees as requested.
With more than 6,200 faculty and staff, UF Health in Jacksonville is the largest UF campus outside of Gainesville. UF Health physicians offer primary care and specialty services in practices throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, tallying more than 650,000 outpatient visits and more than 40,000 inpatient admissions annually.
UF Health in Jacksonville, Florida, is comprised of:
- UF Health Jacksonville, an academic health center near Downtown Jacksonville and home to the area's only adult and pediatric Level I trauma program
- UF Health North, a 92-bed hospital and outpatient medical campus in North Jacksonville
- UF Health Science Center Jacksonville, which encompasses three UF colleges in Jacksonville: Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy
- UF Jacksonville Physicians, Inc., a network of primary and specialty care centers offering exceptional patient care throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia
The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville is the largest of the three colleges at the Health Science Center Jacksonville. We excel in education, research and patient care that expresses our steadfast values of compassion, excellence, professionalism and innovation. The college's 16 clinical science departments house more than 450 faculty members, 1,560 staff and 384 residents and fellows, as well as medical students from UF and around the country. We offer an incredible breadth of clinical training programs and proud to train many of best primary care providers and specialists throughout the region, the state and the country.
Research, discovery and innovation are critical aspects of our clinical campus and we have some of the country’s leading researchers at our locations searching for and finding new treatments and clinical options.
The UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville faculty, administrators, residents, fellows, students and staff work as a team in pursuit of our common mission — to heal, to comfort, to educate and to discover through quality health care, elimination of health disparities, medical education, innovation and research.
To learn more about our college, leadership, mission, faculty resources, and the city of Jacksonville visit https://med.jax.ufl.edu/administrative-affairs/faculty-orientation-guide/.
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