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Main area
Obstetrics
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours
Part time - 8.2 sessions per week
Job ref
196-LCON1125
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road
Town
London
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/06/2025 23:59

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Locum Consultant Obstetrician

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

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

Working for our organisation

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.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

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

Skills

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • 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.

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Spyros Bakalis
Job title
Head of Obstetrics
Email address
[email protected]
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