Consultant Obstetrician with specialist interest in Maternal Medicine
| Posting date: | 26 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109725.00 - £145478.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 April 2026 |
| Location: | Bradford, BD9 6RJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9389-26-0127 |
Summary
A key element of this role is to support and provide resilience to the existing multidisciplinary Maternal Medicine clinics, Obstetric Haematology clinic, Obstetric Epilepsy clinic as well as diabetes in pregnancy care clinics. The job will also include a regular caesarean section list, and a weekday antenatal ward round. The successful candidate would be expected to be link Obstetrician for one of our community midwifery teams and would join a friendly, motivated and dynamic department. Applicants are expected to have specialist training in maternal medicine either through ATSM/SITM route or equivalent. The candidates are expected to have experience in high-risk pregnancy care and enhanced antenatal care for women with previous pregnancy loss and still birth. Currently the department has 24 substantive consultants. Majority contribute to on call for both Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 4 consultants only contribute to obstetric on call and 2 for gynaecology. The advertised post currently includes a non-resident on call element for Obstetrics. There is a consultant on call for Obstetrics and another consultant on call for Gynaecology 24 hours a day 7 days a week. There will be an on-call commitment with this post which will include cover for Obstetrics and for acute Gynaecology (for those who take up gynaecology). You will join the existing on call consultants on a 1:21 rota for labour ward cover. Currently we deliver 98 hours of resident on call for Obstetrics. The consultant presence on labour ward is delivered throughout the week, with a consultant resident on site between 08:00-22:00 each day. The on-call consultant provides the consultant labour ward cover from 1700-2200. After 22:00, on call consultant cover is delivered on a non-resident basis. For full details please see person specifications and job description attached. Shortlisted candidates are encouraged to visit the department.