Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Professional Registration

Essential

• Full Registration with the GMC
• GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months)

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• MRCOG (UK)or appropriate specialist registration*
• Relevant CCT or equivalent
• Must be expecting to receive CCT within the next six months to be eligible for interview.
• All other candidates must already be on the GMC Specialist Register.

Desirable

• o Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
• Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute Obstetric and Gynaecological conditions
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

• ATSM's
• SITM's
• Satisfactory ARCP's during training years
• Prior consultant level experience
• Specialist skills to compliment the service

Management and Administration Experience

Essential

• Ability to manage and lead teams
• Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload

Desirable

• Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

Teaching, Audit and Research

Essential

• o Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
• Evidence of participation in audit
• Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients

Desirable

• Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
• Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses
• Original peer-reviewed research publications

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Good leadership skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs,Midwives, nurses and other agencies
• Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure
• Good organisational and management skills
• Supportive and tolerant
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
• Caring attitude to patients
• Prepared to live within 10 miles or 30 minutes of the hospital

Desirable

• Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).