Consultant Obstetrician with a special interest in Maternal Medicine

3 weeks ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The post is secondary to unit and service expansion and to support the existing team of obstetricians and maternal medicine consultants who provide specialised maternal medicine antenatal clinics, intrapartum and postnatal care. LWHFT currently provides services to women across Cheshire, Merseyside, and North Wales.

Liverpool Women's Hospital is one of three Maternal Medicine Centres (MMC) within the North West Maternal Medicine Network along with St Mary's Hospital Saint Mary's Hospital (Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust) and Royal Preston Hospital (Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).

The job plan will be negotiated following successful appointment to the post, but would include maternal medicine and high-risk pregnancy general antenatal clinics, Delivery Suite, Maternity Assessment Unit, elective caesarean section list and Maternity Base (antenatal/postnatal) ward rounds. A standard job plan consists of DCC PA, SPA and 1 PA for additional specified roles.

Main duties of the job

This post will have approximately 1 day a month on the Delivery Suite ( hours). This also covers activities on the Midwife Led Unit and the Maternity Assessment Unit (at times when there is no dedicated consultant cover). A monthly elective caesarean section list is also included.

The obstetric service provides hours resident consultant Delivery Suite cover ( hours, 7 days a week), with the vision of providing 24/7 resident cover in the next 1-2 years.

Consultant of the week / Ward round rota (Monday to Friday hours), which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to the maternity base, processing consultant antenatal clinic referrals, and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service.

The 'Consultant of the Week' also takes part in incident reviews, attends the 'Term Admissions' meeting on a Thursday hours, and reviews pregnant women admitted to LUHFT for non-obstetric reasons. Other clinical commitments will be cancelled during this week

'Antenatal Weekend Consultant' rota providing separate cover on a Saturday and Sunday between 9am - 12pm, which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to maternity base and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service

About us

Liverpool Women's delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.

We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests for flexible working on hiring.

Our core value is to ' Be Kind' and we have an ambition to 'Be Brilliant' with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.

The Trust is constantly innovating and evolving it's services to provide the most cutting edge care possible. We have long-term aspirations for the future.

We are committed to creating a greener Liverpool Women's

Job description

Job responsibilities

This post will have approximately 1 day a month on the Delivery Suite ( hours). This also covers activities on the Midwife Led Unit and the Maternity Assessment Unit (at times when there is no dedicated consultant cover). A monthly elective caesarean section list is also included.

The obstetric service provides hours resident consultant Delivery Suite cover ( hours, 7 days a week), with the vision of providing 24/7 resident cover in the next 1-2 years.

The successful candidate will participate in the Consultant of the Week ward round rota (Monday to Friday hours), which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to the maternity base, processing consultant antenatal clinic referrals, and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service. Pregnant women above 18 weeks gestation with acute obstetric problems access the service through the Maternity Assessment Unit. This is an area of high activity where consultant availability benefits both women attending and staff working in this area.

The Consultant of the Week also takes part in incident reviews, attends the Term Admissions meeting on a Thursday hours, and reviews pregnant women admitted to LUHFT for non-obstetric reasons. Other clinical commitments will be cancelled during this week

The successful candidate will also participate in the Antenatal Weekend Consultant rota providing separate cover on a Saturday and Sunday between 9am 12pm, which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to maternity base and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

Entry on the GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the Advisory Appointments Committee oMRCOG or equivalent oATSM in Maternal Medicine or equivalent experience oATSM in Advanced Labour Ward Practice or equivalent experience

Desirable

oATSM in High Risk pregnancy or equivalent experience

Clinical Experience

Essential

Clinical training and experience in: General Obstetrics and Gynaecology equivalent to that required for UK CCT Clinical training and experience in:Experience in a tertiary maternal medicine centre

Desirable

oFetal monitoring training

Management and administrative experience

Essential

Understanding of the principles of clinical governance Experience in the development of clinical guidelines Experience of audit

Desirable

Management or leadership qualification Evidence of completion of quality improvement projects leading to service improvement Evidence of service user involvement in service development

Teaching experience

Essential

oEnthusiasm for teaching at all levels oExperience of teaching fetal monitoring oExperience of teaching undergraduates and junior doctors oExperience of teaching other health care professionals

Desirable

Teaching qualification Level 1 Educational Supervisor Training MOET Trainer

Research experience

Essential

oAbility to apply research outcomes to clinical problems oGCP certification

Desirable

Evidence of original work as demonstrated by publications in peer reviewed journals Research activity leading to a higher degree [MD (UK) PhD or MPhil]

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