Consultant Obstetrician

Job summary

The Directorate of Women's Services comprises the clinical departments of Maternity (including obstetrics) and Gynaecology at GSTT and the academic department of Women's Health at King's College London. St Thomas's Hospital hosts the largest single site maternity service in London. The state of the art maternity unit includes a midwife led birth unit co-located to a Hospital Birth centre. A 19 bedded antenatal ward and a 38 bed postnatal ward. The Trust delivers 6000 to 7000 women annually, with a 3% homebirth rate. The birth centres are supported by the busiest maternity day assessment unit in London, an obstetric high dependency unit and an active ultrasound and Fetal medicine unit. Most antenatal care occurs in the community.

Main duties of the job

Provide High Quality Care to Patients

• The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice
• To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
• To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
• To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• To develop and deliver quality improvement within the Directorate

Research, Teaching and Training

Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust's translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.

To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.

To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.

To support multi-disciplinary teaching and training

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities. KHP is one of five accredited UK Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs). Through our AHSC, we are committed to making research and education integral to the delivery of high quality clinical care.

Job responsibilities

Further to the above duties, please see attached JD and PS for more information pertaining to the role.

Proposed interview date TBC.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full UK GMC registration and a Licence to Practise.
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within six months of the date of the Interview.
• MRCOG or equivalent specialist qualification.
• ATSM in Advanced Labour ward practice

Experience

Essential

• Clinical training and experience in general obstetrics and gynaecology equivalent to that required for a UK CCT.

Skills

Essential

• Clinical skills required to work as a consultant in Obstetrics in the UK
• Understanding of principles of audit and its use to drive service improvement.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
• Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
• Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
• Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
• Ability to work as part of a team

Desirable

• Experience of service innovation and/or development.
• Experience of achieving clinical governance targets e.g. CNST.
• Experience of achieving quality targets e.g. CQIN.
• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.