Consultant Gynaecologist with interest in Early Pregnancy/Acute Gynae

Main area Gynaecology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (1:12 out of hours on call) Job ref 321-MS-CON-

Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Oxford Salary £113,565 - £150,569 3% on call banding supplement at Band A Salary period Yearly Closing 01/12/:59

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

The postholder will join an existing team of 18 NHS gynaecologists who together provide both a local gynaecology service to the population of Oxford and a highly specialist tertiary service in urogynaecology, reproductive medicine, endometriosis and Gynae-oncology. This post is a Trust wide position and may involve clinical sessions at the Horton Hospital in Banbury and the John Radcliffe Hospital sites, as well as the community based Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU) in Rosehill, Oxford.

The aim of this post is to better align capacity with demand in general gynaecology and to provide additional consultant capacity in the urgent care service as well as high quality gynaecological ultrasound. The post also offers general and specialist clinics, and regular operating lists. Applications from candidates willing to participate in the termination service will be particularly welcome.

Main duties of the job

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust provides gynaecology services across three sites (John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, Horton Hospital Banbury and the Churchill Hospital, Oxford). The successful applicant will work across all sites. The post holder will be expected to undertake a combination of general gynaecology and specialist clinics. It is anticipated that the specialist clinics will be undertaken in Rosehill Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit

The post-holder will be expected to undertake theatre lists (the majority of the surgery undertaken is minimal access) at the John Radcliffe hospital.

The post holder will manage in-patients at the John Radcliffe Hospital and undertake gynaecology on-call duties of no more frequent than 1:10 paid at a Band A supplement. Competency should be maintained in diagnostic laparoscopy, management of miscarriage and ectopic for out of hours work.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the post and responsibilities within it, please refer to the job description and person specification. An indicative job plan is also included for reference.

Person specification Qualifications

• Primary medical qualification
• MBBS/MBCHB
• MRCOG/FRCOG
• CCT or equivalent (or be within 6 months of CCT at the time of application)
• SITM in Early Pregnancy and acute gynaecology or equivalent.
• Higher medical degree
• SITM in Gynaecological Care
• ATSM or equivalent demonstrating competency in laparoscopic surgery
• Fellowship or advanced qualifications in Ultrasound.

Experience

• Evidence of advanced skills in early pregnancy and gynaecological Ultrasound
• Commitment to developing specialist acute gynaecology and early pregnancy care
• Experience managing and treating patients with benign gynaecological conditions
• Experience managing and treating emergency gynaecology cases.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients in a tertiary setting
• Evidence of experience working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of minimally invasive treatment for benign gynaecological disease
• Evidence of having worked at consultant level in a teaching hospital.
• Willingness to contribute to the medically complex TOP service

Professional

• Evidence of involvement with project leadership within Gynaecology
• Evidence of having implemented change within the clinical setting
• Evidence of authorship of clinical guidelines at a local or national level.
• Effective administrative and time management skills.
• Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Training in clinical management
• Evidence of ability to teach practical skills e.g. ultrasound or laparoscopy

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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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