Job summary
- Main area
- Obstetrics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Recruiting Locum Consultant while we wait to recruit substantively.)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-R2R-2374
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Obstetrician
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
This is a fixed term locum post for 12 months pending advertising and appointing to a new substantive post.
The post is based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage and comprises 10 core programmed activities (PAs) including: labour ward sessions, antenatal clinic, ELCS lists, and a maternal medicine MDT. There is the opportunity to also undertake a fetal medicine session.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join an established multidisciplinary team with a
range of gynaecology and obstetrics specialist skills and experience,
including colposcopy, hysteroscopy, recurrent miscarriage, fertility
services, endometriosis, urogynaecology, antenatal clinics for
diabetes, perinatal mental health, multiple pregnancy, preterm
delivery, bereavement, day assessment, post-natal care, fetal
medicine. The post holder will strengthen the maternal medicine and
high risk obstetrics services.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To provide clinical leadership and expertise in Obstetrics, maternal medicine and perinatal mental health.
• Participate in continuing medical education and training of junior medical staff, consultant colleagues, nurses, medical students and colleagues in primary care.
• Participate in the on call Obstetric rota and the day time labour ward care provision and ward rounds
• Ensure the following sessions are covered by a colleague for leave: labour ward, on call, antenatal ward round, ELCS list.
• Providing clinical leadership for high risk pregnancies
• Providing clinical leadership and expertise in Obstetrics supporting nursing and midwifery teams.
• Maintenance of high quality patient centred care
• Shared responsibility for the day to day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
- MRCOG or appropriate specialist qualification
Desirable criteria
- MD or Ph.D./ Postgraduate academic degree
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad Obstetrics experience including maternal medicine
- ATSM, Contingent SITM or equivalent in advanced labour ward practice
- Other ATSMs or specialist training that supports the departmental needs
- Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
- Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Obstetric ultrasound scanning or fetal medicine
- Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidencebased practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
- Demonstrable experience and participation in research
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
- Ability to work in a teams oriented environment and engage in MDT working
- Evidence of leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others
- Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
- Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
- Ability to critically appraise published evidence
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate understanding of basic principles of audit, evidence-based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
- Comprehensive knowledge and insight regarding all the domains within the GMC standards of Good Medical Practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr Douglas Salvesen
- Job title
- Medical Director Women's & Children's Division
- Email address
- [email protected]
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