Consultant Obstetrician

**Job overview**:
There are 2 posts for full-time obstetric consultants with a special interest in high risk pregnancy.

The general obstetric commitments include both routine and emergency obstetrics and on call for obstetrics).The key clinical requirements of the post are to provide consultant labour suite cover, elective caesarean lists, ward rounds, maternity triage, assessment unit cover and antenatal clinics.

The specialist components of the post will involve: establishing a specialist clinic for women with dichorionic, diamniotic twin pregnancy, to run alongside our existing monochorionic twin pregnancy clinics; becoming part of the team providing multi-professional vulnerable women and mental health antenatal clinics; providing external cephalic version.

**Main duties of the job**:
Please see the attached job description, person specification and job plan for the main duties of this role

**Working for our organisation**:
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country with a budget of over £1billion and over 17,000 staff. We provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottinghamshire.

The Maternity and Gynaecology department includes all hospital and community based obstetrics, gynaecology and midwifery services. 44 consultants contribute to our obstetrics and gynaecology service.

The hospital based services are split between the City hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre sites. Both have a labour suite which is associated with a level 3 Neonatal Unit, dedicated obstetric anaesthetic service, and inpatient and outpatient obstetric services. There is a 3 tier junior doctor 24 hour presence. Our fetal medicine centre accepts regional referrals, and is delivered across the two sites. There is a dedicated maternal medicine service, with multi-professional clinics including obstetric haematology, renal, and medical. There is a strong research presence in the department, with Nottingham contributing to, and leading, national and international clinical trials. We have dedicated scan clinics and a team of midwifery sonographers working alongside our radiology teams.

Our gynaecology service includes urogynaecology, reproductive medicine, benign and emergency gynaecology, and gynae oncology.

There are weekly consultant meetings (via MSTeams) and quarterly departmental meetings.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please see attached job description and person specification for details about the role and main responsibilities.

**Person specification**:
**Professional Registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Full GMC registration
- Eligible to be included on Specialist Register

**Clinical Skills/Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidenced technical skills as described in the job description

**Desirable criteria**:

- Specific training in communication skills
- Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors

**Professional Qualification**:
**Essential criteria**:

- ATSM in Advanced Labour Ward Practice

**Clinical Experience and effectiveness**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Clinical training and experience in general obstetrics equivalent to that required for a UK CCST

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**Salary**: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

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Consent:

- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the **Occupational Health Department **confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the informati