Job summary
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Obs in Maternal Medicine and/or High-Risk Pregnancy
Consultant
Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. Each year we deliver over 8,300 babies, carry out over 10,000 gynaecological procedures, and care for over 1,000 poorly and preterm newborns, making us the specialist provider of health services for women, babies and their families in Europe.
We have some of the leading experts in their field, and, after featuring on One Born Every Minute, Miracle Babies and Special Baby Unit, our teams are famous across the world for their professionalism, skill and compassion.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital clinical services are currently being reviewed by NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, following work done by our clinicians in presenting a powerful case for change in the Future Generations Strategy.
A useful information booklet is available about the proposed changes which can be downloaded from the Healthy Liverpool website facebook.com/healthylvpool. This booklet clearly states that ‘there is absolutely no threat to the services themselves – this is about making what we have even better and protecting services for the future’.
Liverpool Women’s has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.
We invite you to review why Liverpool Women's Hospital is a great place to work: https://vimeo.com/556197652
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Job overview
The post will provide whole time consultant level commitment to obstetrics services at the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust (at the Crown Street and University Hospital Aintree sites) and provide support to the existing Diabetes, Hypertension and Cardiac high risk antenatal clinics.
The post is to support the existing team of obstetricians who provide high-risk antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in a locum capacity for 12 months duration to provide specific support to the already established Diabetes, Hypertension and Cardiac high risk antenatal clinics. LWHFT currently provides services to women across Cheshire, Merseyside, and North Wales.
Main duties of the job
The job plan will be negotiated with the clinical lead for maternity following successful appointment to the post, but an example is given below. It will include Maternal Medicine Antenatal Clinics, Delivery Suite, Maternity Assessment Unit, elective caesarean section list and Maternity Base (antenatal/postnatal) ward rounds. A typical job plan will consist of 7.5DCC, 1.5 SPA and 1 PA for additional specified roles.
This post will have approximately 1 day a month on the Delivery Suite (08.30-20.30 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 will provide 108.5 hours resident consultant Delivery Suite cover (08.30-00.00 hours, 7 days a week) from April 2023, 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 09.00-17.00 hours). This includes incident reviews, attending the ‘Term Admissions’ meeting on a Thursday 08.15-09.00 hours, and reviews pregnant women admitted to LUHFT for non-obstetric reasons. Other clinical commitments will be cancelled during this week.
Working for our organisation
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. https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/about-us/our-future/planning-for-future-generations/
We are committed to creating a greener Liverpool Women’s https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/media/4095/our-green-plan.pdf
https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/media/4121/recruitment-pack-great-place-to-work-16pp-v4-final.pdf
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job plan will be negotiated with the clinical lead for maternity following successful appointment to the post, but an example is given below. It will include Maternal Medicine Antenatal Clinics, Delivery Suite, Maternity Assessment Unit, elective caesarean section list and Maternity Base (antenatal/postnatal) ward rounds. A typical job plan will consist of 7.5DCC, 1.5 SPA and 1 PA for additional specified roles.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary medical degree of a recognised University
- Full registration and Licence to Practice with the GMC
- MRCOG or equivalent / CCT or equivalent
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the Advisory Appointments Committee
- ATSM in Maternal Medicine / high risk pregnancy or equivalent experience
- ATSM in Advanced Labour Ward Practice or equivalent
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- General Obstetrics and Gynaecology equivalent to that required for UK CCT
Desirable criteria
- Obstetric ultrasound experience
- Human factors training
- Fetal monitoring training
Management and administrative experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of the requirements of Element 4 of Saving Babies’ Lives Version Two
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
- Experience in the development of clinical guidelines
- Experience of audit
Desirable criteria
- 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 criteria
- Enthusiasm for teaching at all levels
- Experience of teaching fetal monitoring
- Experience of teaching undergraduates and junior doctors
- Experience of teaching other health care professionals
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
- Level 1 Educational Supervisor Training
- MOET Trainer
Research experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- GCP certification
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of original work as demonstrated by publications in peer reviewed journals
- Research activity leading to a higher degree [MD (UK) PhD or MPhil]
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Haines
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 702 4271
- Additional information
PA: Kelly Highton
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