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Consultant in O&G - Ambulatory Gynaecology & Postnatal Care

Job details
Posting date: 23 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £93,666 - £126,281 Per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 May 2024
Location: London, SW10 9NH
Company: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6198387/289-SCD-CON-0387

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Summary

A Vacancy at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.


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.

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.

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

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.


This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024

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