Job overview

Applications are invited to apply for the above post in the Gynaecology Department at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.  The department is seeking a capable and highly motivated doctor who enjoys working in a tertiary referral service and wishes to effect change and improve care for patients within this service 

This post will deliver and provide training in the management of chronic pelvic pain in women, in the context of a busy secondary and tertiary specialist outpatient clinic. 

Applications are invited from those with a passion to work in an innovative multidisciplinary team.  Working alongside another Consultant Gynaecologist, GPs with Special Interest, pain psychologists, women’s health physiotherapists, counsellors, and nurses.  The team is one of the UK’s largest pelvic pain clinics for women. This service provides high quality, holistic and personalised care for those aged 14 years and above suffering with persistent or recurrent pelvic pain, whether or not underlying pathologies such as endometriosis have been identified.

The Team aims to provide a service which is compassionate and effective, informed by current understanding of both gynecological pathologies and the wider pain mechanisms underlying chronic pain.

As well as being a key part of the Pain service, the successful applicant will also support General gynaecology clinics and operating, as well as contribute to an on call service.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust provides Gynaecology services across three sites (John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, Horton Hospital Banbury and the Churchill Hospital, Oxford).  The successful applicant may work across all sites. The post holder will be expected to undertake a combination of general Gynaecology and specialist Chronic Pelvic Pain clinics.

The post-holder will be expected to undertake theatre lists (the majority of the surgery undertaken is minimal access) at the John Radcliffe hospital or Horton Hospital in Banbury (including regular (1:4) weekend lists)

The post holder will manage in-patients at the John Radcliffe Hospital and undertake Gynaecology on-call duties of no more frequent than 1:9. There is also some job-planned time committed to a GP e-mail advice service. Some clinics may take place outside of the acute trust and it is anticipated that over time more clinics maybe located elsewhere. The successful candidate will be expected to keep up to date with emergency Gynaecology, reviewing patients in the ‘hot clinic’ and giving advice to the specialist Early Pregnancy team when on call.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. 

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. 

 We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. 

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If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.