Job summary
- Main area
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (Plus on call)
- Job ref
- 151-WPHCON-15
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Gynaecology Oncology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
This is a post for a Substantive Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with a special interest in Gynaecology Oncology and skills in Laparoscopic surgery. The post holder will be based at Wexham Park Hospital and will work closely with another colleague on site with the same special interest and with the Tertiary cancer centre at Hammersmith Hospital.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has 2 acute hospital sites, Wexham Park Hospital (WPH) and Frimley Park Hospital (FPH), both with busy Maternity Units and Emergency Departments and a range of other services. In addition, a new “state of the art” pure elective unit (Heatherwood Hospital) was opened in 2022. FHFT serves a population of nearly 900,000 and is the only acute Trust is its ICS which is Frimley Health ICS.
The post holder will undertake their on-call and Obstetric commitments at Wexham Park Hospital. It is anticipated that the post holder will undertake their outpatient clinics and inpatient surgical operating sessions at both WPH and Heatherwood Hospitals. The Trust gained full GIRFT accreditation in 2023.
Wexham Park Hospital (WPH) has a dedicated Gynaecology/Early Pregnancy SDEC area which is open 8am to 8pm seven days a week which the post holder will have opportunity to work in.
Main duties of the job
The allocation of programmed activities will be based on 8.5 for direct clinical care and up to 1.5 for supporting professional activities.
The proposed timetable, each week, which has some degree of flexibility will include:
Rapid Access Clinic 1.0 PA
Colposcopy and Vulval Clinics 0,5 PA Hysteroscopy (alternate weeks) 0.5 PA
Gynae Theatre list 1.0 PA
ANC 1.0PA
SDEC twilight session 0.5 PA
MDT 0.25 PA
Post MDT clinic (virtual and face to face ) 0.5 PA
Triage/PTL/admin 0.5 PA
Out of hours (including resident Consultant night 1.3/month) 2.8 PA
SPA 1.5 PA
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Direct Clinical Care – This includes work directly relating to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness. This includes emergency duties, operating sessions, ward rounds, outpatient activities, clinical diagnostic work, other patient treatment, MDTs about direct patient care and administration directly related to the above.
Special Interest – Outpatient clinics take place at both Heatherwood Hospital (new build “state of the art” facility opened in 2022) and at the Wexham Park site. Heatherwood Hospital has been given full GIRFT accreditation in 2023. The post holder will be supported by Clinical Nurse Specialists in Gynaecology Oncology (3 part-time posts) and the Lead Consultant for Gynaecology Oncology Miss Sumita Nayak. The tertiary centre for Gynaecology Oncology is Hammersmith Hospital
Supporting Professional Activities – These are activities that underpin Direct clinical care. This may include participation in training, medical education, CPD, formal teaching, audit, job planning, appraisal, research, clinical management and local governance activities. It was a contractual requirement that SPA activities are carried out on site but since the Covid-19 pandemic home working has been supported for SPA.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualifications Essential criteriaMaximum score 6 Entry on Specialist Register (CCT or entry expected within 6 months of interview date) or, for Mediated Entrants, entry on Specialist Registrar prior to application MRCOG or equivalent ATSM in Advanced Labour Ward Practice and evidence of relevant experience in specialist areas of interest
- Competencies Essential criteriaMaximum score 14 Able to evaluate own clinical practice Able to demonstrate innovative thinking Ability to organise and develop service provision Have a commitment to working within Trust policies and procedures as guided by the Chief of service Have a commitment to Continuing Medical Education/ Continuing Professional Development Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels Possess an enquiring and critical approach to work
- Experience Essential criteriaMaximum score 24 Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency and elective within Obstetrics & Gynaecology Ability to work with clinicians from medical specialties and in other organisations Clinical training and experience equivalent to that for gaining UK CCT in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients Ability to work with Labour Ward MDT and formulate Obstetric guidelines Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service Ability to manage and lead a firm Direct experience of audit To demonstrate innovative thinking in delivery and management of an obstetrics and gynaecology service Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates, in Obstetrics & Gynaecology to trainee specialists. Able to facilitate teaching in high risk obstetrics and intrapartum care to doctors, midwives and allied healthcare professionals. Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical and surgical problems
Desirable criteria
- Desirable criteriaMaximum score 8 Participation in multidisciplinary team activities Experience of Obstetric Governance and Patient Safety and Quality reviews Ability to manage and lead specialist unit, directorate and working parties as appropriate Research or publications in area of special interest
- Desirable criteriaMaximum score 4 Clinical research in the fields of special interest Publications relevant to the fields of Obstetrics
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage and lead specialist unit, directorate and working parties as appropriate
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Have a commitment to working within Trust policies and procedures as guided by the Chief of Service
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
- Balvinder Sagoo
- Job title
- Deputy Chief of Service O&G
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006150026
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