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Job summary

Main area
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Junior Clinical Fellow
Contract
6 months (Fixed term for 6 months.)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (Must take part in the out of hours on call rota)
Job ref
339-MPBKS778
Employer
North Bristol NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Southmead Hospital
Town
Bristol
Salary
£49,909 - £61,825 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/12/2024 08:00

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Clinical Fellow (ST1/2) in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

NHS Medical & Dental: Junior Clinical Fellow

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Please note that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. So if you are interested, please apply for this vacancy as soon as you can.


 

Job overview

This is a great opportunity to join the growing and dynamic Obstetrics and Gynaecology team at North Bristol NHS Trust, and we are seeking a Junior Clinical Fellow to start ideally from December 2024.  This post is initially fixed-term for 6 months.

This is a non-training post but the Clinical Fellows will get wide ranging clinical experience, supervised by consultant staff. This will include: Theatre lists, Early pregnancy clinic, Central Delivery Suite experience, Emergency Gynaecology, Out-patient clinics (general and specialist), Ante-natal clinics (general and specialist).

The post is funded by NBT for the post holder to participate in the ST1-2 rota to ensure compliance with junior doctors’ hours.

 

Main duties of the job

Learning Objectives/Specialist Interests

To further develop skills in the assessment of antenatal patients, normal and abnormal labour and postnatal care.

To develop skills in instrumental and operative delivery if choses

To gain experience in gynaecology – outpatients and theatre experience

Involvement in audit and quality improvement projects

 

Clinical Experience

This is a non-training post but the Clinical Fellows will get wide ranging clinical experience, supervised by consultant staff. This will include: Theatre lists, Early pregnancy clinic, Central Delivery Suite experience, Emergency Gynaecology, Out-patient clinics (general and specialist), Ante-natal clinics (general and specialist).

The post is funded by NBT for the post holder to participate in the ST1-2 rota to ensure compliance with junior doctors’ hours.

 

Teaching

You will not be expected to take on any formal teaching responsibility. Help with informal teaching of ward based medical students is encouraged. If you have a particular interest in teaching, we will support you within the constraints of your timetable.

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South West region, and one of the largest trusts in the country.  Last year the Trust treated over 100,000 inpatients, over 350,000 outpatients, 90,000 emergency department patients and helped deliver over 6,000 babies.  It employs more than 9,500 staff, has approximately 1,050 inpatient beds and income in excess of £540 million.

The Trust provides medical surgical, neonatal and maternity care for its local population of approximately a million people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.  The Trust also provides regional services in neurosciences, orthopaedics, pathology, plastic surgery and burns, renal medicine and transplant and urology and is the major trauma centre and thrombectomy centre for the Severn Network.

 

The department provides a full range of obstetric and gynaecological services. The maternity department is one of the largest in the country, with more than 6,000 deliveries per annum with a 15 bed Consultant led delivery suite, a co-located birth unit performing over 900 deliveries per year and a standalone birth centre at Cossham Hospital with 500 deliveries per year We have extensive maternal medicine services for specialist endocrine, epilepsy, haematology and renal clinics and run additional specialist antenatal clinics for women including substance misuse, mental health and blood borne viruses. We also have an active fetal medicine department and tertiary level 3 neonatal unit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for more information regarding the role. If you would like to speak to a current junior doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology, or to talk more about the role please contact [email protected] 

Please note that unfortunately North Bristol NHS Trust is not able to offer relocation allowance/expenses for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MBBS or equivalent
  • Advanced Life support (ALS) accreditation
  • Maintain Full registration with the GMC
Desirable criteria
  • Higher academic qualification (e.g. MD or MSc)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Recent experience and familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices (or equivalent)
  • Minimum of 2 years postgraduate experience in a foundation programme approved training post, or equivalent, with evidence of achieving foundation competencies

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of recent CME/ reasonable training progression at this stage of career
  • Experience in audit project and write up

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Good written communication skills.
  • Evidence of the ability to communicate with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience in teaching demonstrated
Desirable criteria
  • Proven track record in research
  • Evidence of relevant publications in peer reviewed journals

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Naomi Jobson
Job title
Consultant Obstetrician
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0117 505050
Additional information

Alternatively please contact:

Dr Ifeoma Offiah

[email protected]

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