Job summary
- Main area
- Sexual Health
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Leave Cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 8 sessions per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 321-MRC-MS-7843521-S1
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Churchill Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant - Sexual and Reproductive Health
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS 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 of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton 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.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV
Applications are invited to apply for the above locum Consultant post in the Oxfordshire Sexual Health Service (OSHS). The successful candidate will primarily based at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, but may also have commitments in our level 3 service in Banbury.
The post is an opportunity to work in a comprehensive integrated sexual health and HIV service providing a countywide service. In addition to sexual health the department hosts the following services: diagnosis and treatment of complex genital conditions; holistic care of patients who present following sexual assault; HIV care; community gynaecology; psychosexual counselling and outreach. This is a maternity cover post for a 12 month period.
Main duties of the job
BACKGROUND
In April 2014 Oxfordshire’s GUM/HIV and contraceptive services merged, providing a single comprehensive level 1-3 sexual health service across Oxfordshire. The service is the largest in the Thames Valley. Attendances by a mobile student population represent a significant proportion of the clinical workload in Oxford.
In 2020, with the beginning of the COVID-18 Pandemic, service delivery was forced to change, with the closure of clinics and rapid redesign of our service. As restrictions eased, a new service model evolved – and we are providing services above and beyond what we were previously: with continuation of some telemedicine services, opening up all our level 3 services to full capacity and re-establishing our peripheral clinics. With this hybrid of different services, we have on average 50,000 patient interactions a year. In addition, our postal kit service has hugely expanded. In the last 4 years the service has evolved to ensure we deliver a full online service, with clinical care that is tailored to all patient’s needs.
The HIV service in Oxfordshire is provided by OSHS and the Infectious Diseases team. We have an approximate 1200 patient cohort and this workload is shared jointly between the two departments. OSHS delivers outpatient HIV service whereas our Infectious Diseases team delivers the inpatient and outpatient HIV service. There are joint MDTs and the potential in the future to merge the services completely.
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.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
BACKGROUND
In April 2014 Oxfordshire’s GUM/HIV and contraceptive services merged, providing a single comprehensive level 1-3 sexual health service across Oxfordshire. The service is the largest in the Thames Valley. Attendances by a mobile student population represent a significant proportion of the clinical workload in Oxford.
In 2020, with the beginning of the COVID-18 Pandemic, service delivery was forced to change, with the closure of clinics and rapid redesign of our service. As restrictions eased, a new service model evolved – and we are providing services above and beyond what we were previously: with continuation of some telemedicine services, opening up all our level 3 services to full capacity and re-establishing our peripheral clinics. With this hybrid of different services, we have on average 50,000 patient interactions a year. In addition, our postal kit service has hugely expanded. In the last4 years the service has evolved to ensure we deliver a full online service, with clinical care that is tailored to all patient’s needs.
The HIV service in Oxfordshire is provided by OSHS and infectious disease team. We have an approximate 1200 patient cohort and this workload is shared jointly between the two departments. OSHS delivers outpatient HIV service whereas our Infectious Disease team delivers the inpatient and outpatient HIV service. There are joint MDTs and the potential in the future to merge the services completely.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC registration
- • Primary medical qualification (MBBS/MBChB)
- • MRCP or MFSRH
- • DIP GUM (or equivalent)
- • Diploma of Sexual and Reproductive Health (DFSRH)
- • Entry onto GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of CCT or has submitted CESR application to the GMC
- • Eligibility to work in the UK
Desirable criteria
- Minimum 4 months previous work experience in the NHS as F2 or CT1
- • Higher medical degree
- • Letter of Competence (LoC) in sub-dermal implants and intrauterine techniques.
- • Diploma in HIV
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 48 months of postgraduate medical experience
- • Broad experience in GUM/HIV Medicine, including complex presentations.
- • Able to work in an integrated sexual health clinic and manage contraception initiation/repeat at a consultant level.
- • Capable to take full & independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- • Awareness of new developments in the specialty – and able to critically the impact of these on the service
- • Comprehensive understanding of the needs of young people in relation to SH -safeguarding/consent
- • Non-judgmental approach to sexual health presentations including unplanned pregnancy
- • Competent in basic life support
Desirable criteria
- Minimum 4 months previous work experience in the NHS as F2 or CT1
- Specialist experience in managing: • Genital dermatology • Genital pain syndromes • Care and management of patients reporting sexual assault • Implant and IUD insertion and removals
Professional Skills
Essential criteria
- • Patient-centred approach to clinical care
- • Good interpersonal and multi-disciplinary team working skills
- • Effective working in different clinical settings including community-based services
- • Non-judgmental approach to sexual health presentations including unplanned pregnancy
Research
Essential criteria
- • Able to appraise research critically and apply research outcomes to clinical and surgical problems
- • Able to supervise junior staff undertaking research projects.
- • Evidence of participation in research
- • Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Desirable criteria
- • Post graduate qualifications
- • Commitment to undertake future research
Management
Essential criteria
- Management Evidence of a leading role in managing a project Attendance on a management course Knowledge of NHS budgeting Application and interview
Desirable criteria
- Attendance on a management course Knowledge of NHS budgeting
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Teaching Competent to teach medical students, postgraduate trainee doctors and other medical health professionals • Evidence of training in teaching skills • Holder of Certificate of Education • Formal involvement in undergraduate/post graduate education Application and interview
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of training in teaching skills
- • Holder of Certificate of Education
- • Formal involvement in undergraduate/post graduate education
Clinical Governance
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of active participation in all aspects of clinical governance
- • Good understanding of clinical governance and quality outcomes
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leadership of aspects of clinical governance e.g., audit lead or risk management officer
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Good spoken and written English
- • Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients,
- • Good organizational and management skills
- • Supportive and tolerant
- • Ability to work within a multidisciplinary
- • Caring attitude to patients
- • Alignment with the OUH Trust Values
- • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
- • Willingness to work flexibly across different sites within the Trust (which includes travelling between different clinical sites
Desirable criteria
- Possesses current driving license
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Amy Loveridge
- Job title
- Secretary
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 234454
- Additional information
If you would like to know more about this post, please contact Amy Loveridge (Secretary) who will pass on your query to the Clinical Lead.
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