Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology is looking to recruit for a 12 month fixed term contract. We are seeking to appoint enthusiastic and committed Consultant in to join the team and cover Trust wide.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading emergency care hospitals, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to adults presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions.

NSECH hosts the trusts acute O&G services. The Emergency Gynaecology Unit manages patients presenting with acute gynaecological conditions, as well as the early pregnancy service. Emergency Gynaecology procedures take place in the NSECH theatre suite, as well as high risk elective cases. The NSECH theatre suite hosts one of the trusts two Davinci surgical robots, used frequently by the Gynaecology team. Following surgery or admission, Gynaecology patients are managed on Ward 15 (Gynaecology & General Surgery).

For Obstetrics NSECH houses a 14 bedded birthing centre, with combined Consultant led and Midwifery led care, a 22 bedded postnatal/ antenatal ward, emergency, and elective obstetric theatres and a new, modern, Pregnancy Assessment Unit (PAU). The service currently delivers around 3,400 babies per year.

Please not we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.

Main duties of the job

Full details of the role are within the attached job description and applicants are invited to speak with our Consultant Head of Service for further information.

The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops.

The Job Plan will typically include an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) for Direct Clinical Care duties (including admin and on-call) and 1.5 Programmed Activities for Supporting Professional Activities (SPA). A proposed job plan has been outlined in Appendix 1 and will be agreed on commencement of appointment.

Consultant medical staff in O&G participate in 7-day working as part of their normal working pattern. Your normal working pattern will be agreed with you locally as part of your job plan and this may consist of shifts of variable working hours including nights and weekends.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job responsibilities

Participate in 24 hour on call rota, while maintaining and managing patient workload in antenatal and outpatient clinics.

To participate in training sessions for education and ensure we maintain compliance with CNTS guidelines.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• MRCOG (Member of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) or equivalent
• Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview
• Full GMC Registration

Desirable

• Medical Education Qualification

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT) in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Experience and awareness of Clinical Governance
• High standard of clinical skill and expertise in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Desirable

• ATSM or equivalent experience in benign gynaecological surgery
• ATSM or equivalent experience in colposcopy
• Experience of audit management
• Experience of supervising SpR's
• Formal training in Clinical Supervision/train the trainers