Job overview

Sub-Speciality Trainee in Fetal-Maternal Medicine

Applications are invited for appointment to sub-specialty training placement in Maternal Fetal Medicine ST6 in at Medway Fetal and Maternal Medicine Centre in Kent. There is only 1 post available, starting May/June 2026. 

A National Training Number (NTN) is not available for this appointment.

The post is only open to trainees who currently hold a National Training Number (NTN).

Applicant will need to apply for an OOPT from their host region in order to train in this post, bringing their National Training Number (NTN) with them. If invited to interview, applicants will need to bring a letter supporting the period of OOPT from their host region.

This is for completion of Maternal Fetal Medicine Sub Specialty competences subject to satisfactory progression.

Reasonable Adjustments & Disability Confident scheme (DCS)

For more information regarding reasonable adjustments and guaranteed interview scheme please refer to the Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education (PGMDE) support portal via https://lasepgmdesupport.hee.nhs.uk/support/home

All applicants applying to medical specialties are required to have essential competences or equivalent depending on the level they are applying for. For more information on competences please refer to the resource bank on Oriel via www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web/ResourceBank

Please upload all required evidence of competences to your online application form when completing the application form online.

Main duties of the job

This post is for a sub-speciality trainee in Fetal-Maternal Medicine at Medway Fetal and Maternal Medicine Centre (MFMC) at the Medway NHS Foundation Trust. The MFMC is a specialist tertiary-level Fetal Medicine Unit in the Kent and Medway maternity and neonatal 
Integrated Care System. This is a sub-speciality trainee post in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery with the aim of providing the trainee with excellent higher specialist skills in Fetal and Maternal Medicine. The successful candidate will work at the level of a senior, middle grade 
registrar at ST6/7 level primarily working in MFMC but also contributing to obstetrics and gynaecology on-call rota. This post is aimed to provide the trainee with the requisite knowledge and skills required to become a high-quality Consultant in Fetal and Maternal medicine managing high-risk pregnancies. There are ample opportunities to participate in clinical audits, quality improvement and research projects.  

Working for our organisation

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.