Clinical Director for Gynaecology

Job overview

This role is for internal candidates only. 

Clinical Director for Gynaecology
Accountable to: Divisional Director for Surgery, Women’s and Oncology Clinical Division
Remuneration: Allocation of PAs within existing job plan or hours for a clinical person on agenda for change terms and conditions plus £, allowance per annum
Tenure: months
The Gynaecology Directorate includes the following services:
• Ambulatory gynaecology service
• Adolescent gynaecology
• Chronic Pelvic Pain
• Colposcopy
• Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit
• Endometriosis
• Fertility
• General Gynaecology
• Gynae Oncology
• Menopause
• Recurrent Miscarriage
• Urogynaecology
Services are split across three sites: The Women’s Centre at the John Radcliffe, Horton General in Banbury, and the Cancer Centre at the Churchill Hospital. In addition there is the Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit based at Rose Hill.

Gynaecology has two dedicated theatres within the Women’s Centre, as well as a diagnostic suite and Colposcopy services. The Service has use of a daily theatre list at the Churchill (primarily for cancer patients) and - lists per week at the Horton Hospital in addition to this.

The services see over , OP attendances a year including emergency patients through the Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit, and nearly , patients referred on a ww cancer pathway. They also operate on patients a year.

The Clinical Director will be accountable to the Divisional Director for the clinical leadership, governance and operational performance of the Clinical Directorate. This is a key operational role within the Division and the post holder will lead the Clinical Directorate and will be accountable for ensuring services are patient focused and for achieving national and local targets and standards.
The post holder will lead the Clinical Directorate management triumvirate and will line manage the Clinical Directorate Matron and Operational Service Manager. The post holder will also provide visible leadership to all staff within the Clinical Directorate and support the Divisional Director in delivering the strategic plan for the Division. The post holder will work with the Divisional Director to ensure the Clinical Directorate meets
its required objectives. 

Oxford University Hospitals is a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK.
The Trust is made up of four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital , the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. We provide a wide range of clinical services, specialist services, medical education, training and research.
Most services are provided in our hospitals, but over six percent are delivered from other locations across the region, and some in patients’ homes. Our collaboration with the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University underpins the quality of the care that is provided to patients, from the delivery of high-quality research, bringing innovation from the laboratory bench to the bedside, to the delivery of high-quality
education and training of doctors. Existing collaborations include the ambitious research programmes established through the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), located on the John Radcliffe Hospital site and at the Biomedical Research Unit in musculoskeletal disease at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.