Job summary
- Main area
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PA's)
- Job ref
- 229-GT-SDMS-7151221
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hereford County Hospital
- Town
- Hereford
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/07/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Consultant
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen as a Consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 10 PA's.
- Experience running urodynamics and urogynaecology clinics
- Experience in practical procedures including: Cystoscopy/botox injection/ Bulkamid injection
- MDT working
In addition, to urogynae- there is the opportunity to undertake colposcopy.
Some of the benefits of being part of our team include:
- Friendly and pleasant hospital in wonderful rural area.
- Fantastic quality of life
- Good clinical environment and state of the art equipment
- Excellent clinical experience
Closing date: 15/06/2025
Interview date: 16/07/2025
For more information please contact Ms Thiru Bavananthan - Clinical Director 01432 355444 or email [email protected]
Main duties of the job
The duties of the consultant in the hot week will include:
• Supervise the day-to-day management of labour ward
• Two labour ward rounds per day
• One maternity ward round a day (to review all antenatal patients and problematic post-natal
patients
• One gynaecology ward round to review all patients admitted as an emergency and those of
Colleagues in their absence
• Perform or supervise emergency gynaecological cases on the CEPOD lists.
• Ensure there is sufficient handover between you and your consultant colleagues and the
Senior resident doctors at the change of each shift
• Be available for the resident doctors to discuss the management of patients attending the
EPAU and the emergency gynaecology clinic
You will find more duties listed on the attached job description.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the job description or personal specification please do see attached document.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCOG or equivalent
- Full doctors GMC registration with Licence to Practise
- Two appropriate ATSMs or equivalent experience in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Candidates should ideally be on the Specialist Register or be eligible to be on the specialist register within six months of the date of the Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC)
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the following areas: • Advanced Labour Ward Practice • Benign Gynaecology ATSM • Colposcopy • Benign Abdominal Surgery ATSM • Advanced Antenatal Practice or Maternal Medicine or Fetal • Medicine • Urogynaecology
Training
Essential criteria
- Possesses training and education skills to teach junior medical, nursing and midwifery staff
- Demonstrates Leadership qualities Provides learning opportunities within the clinical environment
- Provides learning opportunities within the clinical environment to teach junior colleagues
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A wide general obstetrics and gynaecology training
- Good experience at running labour ward and Emergency Gynaecology at a senior level
Desirable criteria
- Either of the following can be beneficial: • Risk management experience • Fetal Monitoring Leadership
Communication and Language Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written
- Ability to establish good working relationships with staff and be able to communicate well with patients.
- Acts with integrity
- Willingness to seek timely assistance from colleagues and discuss clinical issues when appropriate
- Ability to communicate well with patients
Desirable criteria
- Advanced communication skills training
- Flexible
- Team player
- Supportive and nurturing towards junior medical, midwifery and nursing workforce
Management and Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills and time management
- Prepared to challenge/correct poor performance
- Takes responsibility for personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
- Training and interest in medical management
Commitment to Trust Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Thiru Bavananthan
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01432 355444
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