Job summary
- Main area
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (including on-call)
- Job ref
- 289-SCD-CON-0387
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in O&G - Ambulatory Gynaecology & Postnatal Care
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
About our Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.
Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster. Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.
Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Job overview
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint an enthusiastic, forward-thinking Locum Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist with in ambulatory gynaecology & postnatal care
The successful candidate will join a large consultant team providing general and specialised obstetrics and gynaecology services to the population of North West London and neighbouring areas. The post will be based at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital site.
The appointment will be 10 PAs and includes being non-resident on call for both obstetrics and gynaecology.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder primarily complements the Obstetrics & Gynaecology service. The successful candidate will have responsibility for outpatient hysteroscopy clinics, 2 week wait clinic each week, weekly MDT meetings, gynaecology surgery list and labour ward cover including a regular caesarean section list. The post-holder will be expected to provide a high-quality outpatient hysteroscopy clinic and one-stop gynaecology scan clinic. The post holder is also expected to provide senior clinical leadership on the postnatal ward. The appointee will provide a high-quality Obstetrics and Gynaecology service, in conjunction with consultant colleagues already in post. It would be expected that the consultant offers continuous responsibility for the care of patients named under their team. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate an active interest in the management of general gynaecology patients and to provide a unified multidisciplinary approach to their care through one-stop benign scan clinics. It is expected that the successful candidate will enhance the educational opportunities available to our trainees by any reorganisation and development of services that they initiate. Regular audits will be required and supervision for Quality Improvement Projects (QIP) undertaken by the trainees. Involvement in general management and committee work for the hospital will also be encouraged.
Working for our organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.
We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
- We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
- We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
- We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
- We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
- We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
- We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post-holder primarily complements the Obstetrics & Gynaecology service. The successful candidate will have responsibility for outpatient hysteroscopy clinics, 2 week wait clinic each week, weekly MDT meetings, gynaecology surgery list and labour ward cover including a regular caesarean section list. The post-holder will be expected to provide a high-quality outpatient hysteroscopy clinic and one-stop gynaecology scan clinic. The post holder is also expected to provide senior clinical leadership on the postnatal ward.
The appointee will provide a high-quality Obstetrics and Gynaecology service, in conjunction with consultant colleagues already in post. It would be expected that the consultant offers continuous responsibility for the care of patients named under their team.
The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate an active interest in the management of general gynaecology patients and to provide a unified multidisciplinary approach to their care through one-stop benign scan clinics.
It is expected that the successful candidate will enhance the educational opportunities available to our trainees by any reorganisation and development of services that they initiate. Regular audits will be required and supervision for Quality Improvement Projects (QIP) undertaken by the trainees. Involvement in general management and committee work for the hospital will also be encouraged.
The Directorate has weekly MDT and educational meetings in which medical cases are reviewed and discussed and audits are presented. The Directorate holds monthly Consultant meetings, Gynaecology and Perinatal morbidity and mortality meetings.
The post holder will engage as necessary with North West London CRG and any agreed network models for complex emergency gynaecological surgery.
The post holder will have secretarial support from a senior patient administrator shared between other Consultants. The appointee will have a desk in a shared office with access to a computer.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- CCT (or within 6 months of CCT at date of AAC) or equivalent [equivalence must be confirmed by PMETB /GMC before AAC]
- MRCOG or equivalent
- Entry on GMC Specialist Register OR eligible within 6 months of the date of appointment
Desirable criteria
- An MD or equivalent higher postgraduate training
Experience, Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of broad based training experience in General O&G equivalent to that required for a UK CCST
- Evidence of competence in advanced labour ward practice
- Evidence of competence in gynaecological ultrasound scanning
- Evidence of competence in outpatients hysteroscopy
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of competence in benign abdominal surgery
- Colposcopy certification (BSCCP or equivalent)
Teaching and Training
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training
Desirable criteria
- Medical Education or Adult Education Training
- Trained ALSO or MOET or NALS instructor
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Solid Understanding of the Clinical Governance Agenda
- Evidence of effective audit leading to change
- IT proficiency including, email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Desirable criteria
- Risk Management Course
- Evidence of significant contribution to the Clinical Governance Agenda, particularly CNST preparation
- Coaching skills
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 Jeffrey Ahmed
- Job title
- Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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