Physician Neonatology - Competitive Salary

Company: Inspire Healthcare
Location: Fairfield
Posted on: March 1, 2026

Job Description:

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 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

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