Consultant Obstetrics

Applications are invited for a substantive Consultant post in Obstetrics & Gynaecology with an interest in high risk obstetrics.
With an increased requirement for consultant oversight for maternity risk assessment and acute care, the department has made significant improvements in its approach to high risk Obstetrics and perinatal feto-maternal health.

The women’s journey work stream of the OMS (Outstanding Maternity Services transformation project) recognised the need for consultant input for those women with risk factors. Consultant oversight is required to meet the standards set out by the Ockenden report; the saving babies’ lives care bundle as well as the department priority to reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality for our high risk population. We are looking for individuals who have the experience and expertise to develop new services including a rainbow clinic, postnatal care clinic and one stop fetal well-being clinic.

Applications will be welcomed from all suitably qualified Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. Experience in Obstetrics and labour ward care is essential.

The Women’s Services Clinical Service Unit currently offers a wide range of general and special interest in-patient and outpatient services. The Obstetric service includes an Obstetric triage unit, a pregnancy related bereavement support team as well as general antenatal clinics and a wide range of high risk clinics for women with diabetes, haematological problems, perinatal mental health problems, small baby clinic, multiple pregnancy, infectious diseases and epilepsy. Specialist Gynaecological services include out-patient Hysteroscopy, Colposcopy, Cystoscopy, reproductive medicine, early pregnancy assessment, and termination of pregnancy. All services are delivered at Bradford Royal Infirmary except for an out-patient Hysteroscopy clinic and pregnancy loss clinic at Westwood Park Community Hospital.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a female population of approximately 250,000 and there are around 5400 births per year in the unit. Approximately 50% of our women are from an ethnic background, mainly from Pakistan and India.

The Trust is a teaching centre for the University of Leeds School of Medicine and the department has a good reputation for providing high quality undergraduate and postgraduate education and training. Successful applicants will be expected to contribute to these teaching programmes. There is also a strong emphasis on clinical research and a high calibre research group within the unit.

Bradford is a busy and vibrant city located in the centre of the UK with easy access by car, train or air. The city has a wide variety of leisure and shopping facilities and a major new shopping and leisure outlet in the city centre has recently opened. There is a good range of affordable housing within the city and in the surrounding areas and many high performing schools and specialist academies in the area. The city and is a short drive or steam train journey away from the famous Yorkshire Dales, home to the Bronte sisters, the Railway Children and Emmerdale and, more recently, Le Grand Depart in the Tour de France. An area of outstanding natural beauty with excellent cycling and walking available on the doorstep helps maintain a good quality of life.

There will be an on call commitment with this post which will include cover for both Obstetrics and for acute Gynaecology. You will join the existing on call consultants on a 1:17 rota for labour ward cover. The appointment will allow us to maintain our capacity to deliver 98 hours of consultant labour ward cover per week. 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. The post includes Gynaecology on call which is non-resident.

At present there are 23 consultants in post. There are 4 pure Consultant Obstetricians on the Out of hours on call Obstetric rota and currently 3 pure Consultant Gynaecologists on the Gynaecology on call rota as well as 14 consultants who cover both.

Applicants must be fully registered with the General Medical Council and be on the Specialist Register or within six weeks of acquiring CCT on the time of interview.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.