Job summary
Employer heading
Cheshire and Mersey Preterm Birth Network Clinical Fellow
MT04 - MT05
Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. Each year we deliver over 8,300 babies, carry out over 10,000 gynaecological procedures, and care for over 1,000 poorly and preterm newborns, making us the specialist provider of health services for women, babies and their families in Europe.
We have some of the leading experts in their field, and, after featuring on One Born Every Minute, Miracle Babies and Special Baby Unit, our teams are famous across the world for their professionalism, skill and compassion.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital clinical services are currently being reviewed by NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, following work done by our clinicians in presenting a powerful case for change in the Future Generations Strategy.
A useful information booklet is available about the proposed changes which can be downloaded from the Healthy Liverpool website facebook.com/healthylvpool. This booklet clearly states that ‘there is absolutely no threat to the services themselves – this is about making what we have even better and protecting services for the future’.
Liverpool Women’s has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.
We invite you to review why Liverpool Women's Hospital is a great place to work: https://vimeo.com/556197652
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Job overview
The Cheshire and Mersey Local Maternity System (LMS) is delighted to announce an exciting Clinical Fellowship in association with the Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The Fellowship is a full-time management/preterm network development post under the supervision of Dr Rachel McFarland, Clinical Lead for the C&M Preterm Birth Network. It includes a clinical component. Clinical supervision will be the responsibility of the RCOG College Tutor Dr Emily Fairclough who will allocate a clinical educational supervisor.
Duration of the post: full-time 1-year fixed term from start date with the option to extend for a further 12 months for an outstanding candidate.
Main duties of the job
The network development component of this post comprises liaising with clinical leads and preterm birth teams in the local units in Cheshire and Mersey to reduce variation and improve outcomes for women at risk of preterm birth.
The management component of this post comprises experience in applied research and clinical management in obstetrics, a research area in which Liverpool leads internationally.
Sample timetable (alternate weeks)
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Delivery Suite |
LMS AM PTL clinic pm |
LMS |
LMS AM PTL clinic pm |
CS AM LMS PM |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Delivery Suite |
GED / recurrent miscarriage |
LMS |
LMS AM PTL clinic pm |
LMS |
Working for our organisation
Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.
We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests for flexible working on hiring.
Our core value is to ‘Be Kind’ and we have an ambition to ‘Be Brilliant’ with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.
The Trust is constantly innovating and evolving it’s services to provide the most cutting edge care possible. We have long-term aspirations for the future. https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/about-us/our-future/planning-for-future-generations/
We are committed to creating a greener Liverpool Women’s https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/media/4095/our-green-plan.pdf
https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/media/4121/recruitment-16pp-v5-current-version.pdf
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The network development component of this post comprises liaising with clinical leads and preterm birth teams in the local units in Cheshire and Mersey to reduce variation and improve outcomes for women at risk of preterm birth.
The management component of this post comprises experience in applied research and clinical management in obstetrics, a research area in which Liverpool leads internationally.
It is anticipated that the clinical component on the rota will be 2 days per week.
The candidate would be expected to participate in all PTB prevention clinic sessions (currently 1.5/week) at Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and will have access to training in insertion of cervical cerclage.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Primary Medical Degree
- • GMC Registration
- • MRCOG Part I
Desirable criteria
- • MRCOG Part 2/3
Experience
Essential criteria
- • 4 years post registration
- • Obstetrics & Gynaecology - completion/or nearing completion of ST3 competencies by appointment
Training
Essential criteria
- • Foundation Year Level-2 competencies
- • Completion or nearing completion of ST3 competencies by appointment
Desirable criteria
- • NTN in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Academic Achievements
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of research interest/QI projects
- • Experience of clinical management e.g. coordinating review meetings/MDT
- • Published papers
- • Other Degree (e.g. BSc
skills
Essential criteria
- Commensurate competence in: Clinical judgement
- Commensurate competence in: Patient handling
- Commensurate competence in: Colleague handling
- Commensurate competence in:Teamwork
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
- Dr Devender Roberts
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Clinical contact for further information
Dr Rachel McFarland – [email protected]
Trust contact for further information
RCOG College Tutor, Dr Emily Fairclough – [email protected]
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