Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

We are looking to appoint a Consultant Obstetrician and Lead for Maternity Triage. The successful candidate will work as part of the consultant obstetric team, contributing to the provision of high-quality consultant-led maternity care across the service, including labour ward, maternity triage, inpatient ward areas and obstetric clinics. They will participate in the consultant obstetric on-call rota and play an active role in multidisciplinary working, clinical governance, service development, education and training within the department.

The post holder will also provide clinical and operational leadership for the maternity triage service. This is a newly developed role following review of the service in response to increasing clinical demand and evolving national maternity safety recommendations. 

The post offers an exciting opportunity for a motivated Consultant Obstetrician to shape and develop the future maternity triage service, supporting innovation in urgent maternity care, service improvement, pathway development, and multidisciplinary collaboration within a supportive and forward-looking maternity department. There will also be opportunities to contribute to the development of ultrasound services within maternity triage, including one-stop scan appointments, cervical length measurement and resident doctor ultrasound training. 

Main duties of the job

All applicants should be fully registered with the General Medical Council, hold a Licence to Practice and be on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT at the date of interview.

The successful candidate will work as part of the consultant obstetric team, contributing to the provision of high-quality consultant-led maternity care across the service, including labour ward, maternity triage, inpatient ward areas and obstetric clinics. They will participate in the consultant obstetric on-call rota and play an active role in multidisciplinary working, clinical governance, service development, education and training within the department.

The Maternity Triage Lead will work closely with the Triage Matron, Labour Ward Lead and Clinical Lead for Obstetrics to support the strategic and operational development of maternity triage services, including patient flow, escalation pathways, workforce development, and alignment with national maternity safety recommendations. This will include supporting the ongoing use and refinement of the Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage System (BSOTS) to promote standardised assessment, timely escalation and safe prioritisation of women attending maternity triage.

Working for our organisation

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust is a very busy and popular acute general hospital. We serve a population of about 320,000 in Kingston, Esher, Richmond, Roehampton, Putney and other parts of South West London. Kingston Hospital is one of the largest employers in the region and employs over 3,700 staff across the widest range of careers. We are proud of our reputation as the largest single site District General Hospital in London.  We provide a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare particularly in ‘patient-focused’ care and maternity services. Following an inspection of key services and the Trust’s leadership in spring 2018, the Care Quality Commission gave Kingston Hospital an ‘Outstanding’ rating for Overall Quality, Caring and Well-led and ‘Good‘ rating for Safety’, ‘Effectiveness’ and ‘Responsiveness’.

The area surrounding the hospital is one of the most attractive “green” areas in the outer London region, almost entirely surrounded by river, three Royal Parks and open countryside. It is 12 miles from the centre of London and 10 miles from Heathrow airport. There are good road and rail links with Central London and there is a large commuter population.