Job summary
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust seeks to appoint a Consultant Obstetrician to join its dynamic and ambitious team. If you hold a certificate of completion of specialist O&G training and have completed subspecialty training in Fetal Medicine, then we would love to hear from you!
The successful candidate will join a large cohesive team of 24 Consultants, providing general and specialised obstetrics care to the population of East Hampshire and neighbouring areas.
This post will be based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.
About the Department
Our maternity service has been graded GOOD by the Care Quality Commission in February 2024.
The Obstetrics and Gynaecological Department is part of the Women and Childrens Clinical Service Centre and is based at Queen Alexandra Hospital. The maternity service has 88 beds and will be responsible for approximately 6000 deliveries in 2024. There are four Midwife led birth centres in the district, one of which is co-located with the Consultant Unit. We have close links with the regional Fetal Medicine Centre in Southampton.
Additionally the Gynaecology Department sees approximately 6500 new patients per year and performs over 3000 elective procedures. There is a 12 bed Gynaecological Inpatient Unit, Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit and Gynae Emergency Assessment Unit. We share day unit facilities with other specialities.
Main duties of the job
The Consultant clinical duties:
The job plan will initially be based on 10 programmed activities.
The direct clinical care will include fetal medicine scanning clinics, elective caesarean section lists, general antenatal clinic and ward cover. Each consultant also participates in the Hot Week rota on average 5 times a year when normal daytime elective activity is cancelled to allow for covering the Labour Ward.
On call requirements
The post holder will be required to participate in the obstetric on call rota including resident on call until 10pm week days and six hours resident on Saturdays and Sundays.
Interview Date: TBC
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will join a large cohesive team of 24
consultants, providing general and specialised obstetrics care to the
population of East Hampshire and neighbouring areas. The post will be based at
the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. The job plan will initially be based
on ten programmed activities and will include participation in the obstetrics
on-call rota.
The remit of the post holder will be to lead and develop a subspecialist
Fetal medicine scanning service alongside also provision of general obstetric
services.
The post-holder will be expected to have a regular elective Caesarean
section list to facilitate safe delivery of high risk cases, as well as
supervision and teaching of junior colleagues.
The Fetal Medicine service Portsmouth currently includes scanning and
reviews of confirmed/suspected fetal anomalies, placental mediated disease and
monochorionic twins. We work closely with University Hospitals Southampton
Wessex Fetal Medicine service as our tertiary referral centre, but this post
offers the opportunity to lead and develop our service to include more complex
structural anomalies and other cases. The FM clinics have a designated
ultrasound and consultation room equipped with a state of the art GE Voluson E8
machine. Fetal Medicine clinics have a dedicated specialist midwife working 1:1
with the Consultant, and they provide an opportunity for high quality teaching
of undergraduates and postgraduates alike.
The Obstetrics on-call rota comprises 1:16 weeknights (Monday-Thursday,
approx. 13 per year), and average 1:8 split weekends, and 4 or 5 Hot weeks
per year (Obstetrics 0800-1730 Monday-Thursday, Friday OFF).
Labour ward is covered by a Consultant Obstetrician
for a minimum of 82 hours a week. This comprises Monday-Friday 0800-2200,
Saturday and Sunday 0800-1200 and 2000-2200. Unpredictable clinical work may
necessitate Consultant presence outside of these times.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full and specialist registration (and a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or eligible for registration within six months of interview)
- MRCOG or equivalent approved by PMETB
- Completion of RCOG ATSM in Advanced Labour Ward Practice or equivalent
Desirable
- Accredited subspecialist in Fetomaternal Medicine (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Clinical training and experience in ante natal and intra partum obstetrics equivalent to that required for a UK CCT
- Ability to offer acute care as the Obstetric consultant alongside a Level 3 Neonatal Unit
- Demonstrable team working skills
Desirable
- Experience working in tertiary fetal medicine unit
Clinical Skills
Essential
- Ability to undertake fetal medicine scans
- Knowledge, Clinical and Technical skills to provide a Consultant Service in obstetrics
- Certification in managing obstetric emergencies on labour ward
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of a safe service
- Commitment to accept a share of management in the Department
- Engagement in resource management
- Evidence of achieving change from effective clinical audit.
- Experience of developing clinical pathways, guidelines and policies
- Experience and training in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education
- Ability to teach clinical and operative skills
- Training in basic research technique and evaluation
- Ability to critically review research
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Address
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham
PO6 3LY