Neonatology- CLIN AST/ASO/FULL PROF

Classification Title:

CLIN AST/ASO/FULL PROF

Job Description:

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 will provide care primarily at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine Florida for infants admitted to a 7-bed level II neonatal intensive care unit and for well infants in the mother-baby unit.  There is an opportunity if desired for an individual to maintain skills in caring for critically ill infants at the newly constructed 87-bed level IV NICU at Wolfson Children’s Hospital and at the 48-bed level III NICU at UF Health Jacksonville.  The Division is an active participant in the Vermont-Oxford Network and in the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative. 

Under Florida statutes, a level II NICU can care for infants with birth weights greater than or equal to 1250 grams.  If an infant requires subspecialty care or more than 72 hours of assisted ventilation, transfer to a Jacksonville level III/IV NICU is required. 

This position will report to the Chief of the Division of Neonatology and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville. 

Following is a general description of duties and responsibilities:

• Provide clinical care to neonates admitted and cared for at the level II neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the mother-baby unit at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine Florida. 
• Optionally staff a limited number of rotations at the level IV/III NICUs in Jacksonville, FL.
• 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.
• Participate in and support divisional quality improvement, database, and other academic initiatives as needed.

• 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/.

Expected Salary:

$280,000 to negotiable

Minimum Requirements:

Applicants should have a MD/DO degree, be eligible for medical licensure in the state of Florida and for credentialing at area hospitals, be a board-certified