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Main area
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee ST1/2
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (40 hours + on-calls)
Hours
40 hours per week (Full Time - 40 hours per week)
Job ref
196-MED4537
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£43,923 £40,257 Base rate
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2024 23:59

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee ST1/2

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

Obstetrics and Gynaecology   

Clinical Fellow, ST 1-2 

Applications are invited for one post of Senior House Officer ST1/2 in the department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. The unit delivers 6000 women per year and has an equally busy gynaecology unit seeing 12 000 emergencies and 10 000 new referrals each year. It has an excellent reputation for education with protected time for teaching and consultant led educational supervision. This is a trust funded post and is ideal for a doctor wishing to pursue a career in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the future. Candidates with at least 6 months experience in a UK SHO post (NOT locum or clinical attachment) are eligible to apply.

You will work closely with a highly competent multi-disciplinary team to delivery high quality outcomes for our patients and local communities

Main duties of the job

The post will be a full-time equivalent to ST-1/2 level in obstetrics and gynaecology at GSTT working within the Directorate of Women’s Services. Obstetric duties will include the hospital birth centre (HBC), antenatal clinics, antenatal day unit (ADU), ward rounds on the antenatal and postnatal wards and elective theatre list on HBC. Gynaecology duties will include gynaecology ward round, gynaecology outpatient clinics, one-stop outpatient minor procedure clinics, inpatient and outpatient operating sessions and emergency gynaecology sessions.

Our Maternity Unit delivers around 6600 women per year, with a mixture of general and specialist pathways being delivered antenatally and postnatally. We provide a comprehensive Gynaecology service, containing a dedicated Early Pregnancy and Acute Gynaecology Unit, a standalone Gynaecology Outpatient environment, and elective operating at St Thomas' and Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup. 

We have an exceptional reputation for education with protected time for teaching and consultant led educational supervision, and excellent opportunities to develop skills in all areas of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (clinical, research, educational and service improvement leadership). There is an international reputation for research and development in maternal medicine, assisted conception and prematurity.

 

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is one of the largest hospital Trusts in the country, with a staff of over 13,650, a turnover of over £1.3 billion and 2 million patient contacts a year.  The Trust comprises two of London’s oldest and best-known teaching hospitals.  The hospitals have a long history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded.  Both hospitals have built on these traditions and continue to have a reputation for excellence and innovation.

Organisational Values:

Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it.  It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust. 

The post holder will:

  • Put patients first
  • Take pride in what they do
  • Respect others
  • Strive to be the best
  • Act with integrity

Our values and behaviours framework| describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action. The framework can be found on our Trust careers pages and GTIntranet.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will deliver an on-call rota alongside more senior clinicians for both Obstetrics and Gynaecology. You will take part in both maternity and gynaecology elective operating and outpatient appointments, as well as supporting emergency rotas in early pregnancy and the maternity assessment unit. Our rota is fully EWTD compliant.

Candidates should ensure paperwork is compliant and in line with the person specification as advertised. 

Applicants must be fully registered with the GMC.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GMC registered
  • MBBS or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • BSc

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good basic knowledge of Obs & Gynae. Good communication skills. About to work in a multiprofessional team.
Desirable criteria
  • CTG Training. Life support training within the last year (ALS/ALSO/MOET). Taken active role in audit research.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum 6 months Obstetrics & Gynaecology experience as an SHO in a UK post
Desirable criteria
  • Up to 12-months Obstetrics & Gynaecology experience as an SHO in a UK post

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
Tanya Robbins
Job title
College Tutor
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Spyros Bakalis - [email protected]

Archana Vasireddy - [email protected]

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