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Job overview

We invite applications for a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

This is a substantive Consultant post in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with the holder having a special interest in intrapartum Obstetrics and high-risk Obstetric care.  There is the opportunity for the successful candidate to become Labour Ward Lead.  Other special interests could be considered such as maternal medicine, fetal medicine, or education.  The post will make up 1 of 20 WTE Consultants on the Frimley Park site.   

The post is based at Frimley Park Hospital where there are a number of Specialist Midwives in areas such as diabetes, antenatal screening and perinatal mental health plus Consultant midwives. There is a strong Obstetric Governance Team and Practice Development Team.

The post holder will participate in regular Patient Safety and Quality Meetings, attend Obstetric Governance and Labour Ward Forum meetings, and be involved in formulating cross site guidelines.  

Main duties of the job

The proposed timetable, each week, which has some degree of flexibility will include: 

High Risk Antenatal Clinic based at FPH                                             0.5  PA

Antenatal Clinic based at Community Hospital                               0.5 PA

Diabetic Antenatal Clinic                                                                              1.0 PA

Labour Ward Consultant Day (alternate weeks)                            1.0 PA

Labour Ward Lead                                                                                             1.0  PA

Caesarean Section Theatre List (alternate weeks)                        0.75 PA

PSQ Meeting/Obstetric Governance                                                     0.325 PA

General Gynae Clinic (every 4 weeks)                                                   0.25  PA

Gynae Theatre list (every 4 weeks)                                                         0.375 PA

Resident Labour Ward Night (17 per year)                                        1.6 PA

SPA                                                                                                                             1.5 PA

Admitting Consultant/Weekend Labour Ward                               1.2 PA

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.