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Job summary

Main area
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
317-CON-24-115
Employer
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Gynaecology Specialty - RVI
Town
Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/06/2024 23:59

Employer heading

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Gynaecologist - Special Interest in Cancer Unit/Diagnostics

Consultant

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. 

The post is aimed at a highly flexible candidate who is able to offer excellent care in diagnostic cancer services and complex operating.  The interested candidate will understand national NHS targets and offer efficient cancer care through a multidisciplinary approach and liaising with the regional oncology MDT. The expansion will attract an individual who is patient centred and keen to work with the team to flexibly cover theatres, 2 week wait cancer clinics to enable best use of resource and deliver a 52 week service.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

This expansion post aims to consolidate cancer diagnostics: delivering a flexible 52 week service and fully utilising theatres, 2 week wait clinics and diagnostics to achieve an excellent service for our patients.  The candidate should demonstrate independent working and excellent laparoscopic skills to drive improvement within the cancer service.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: 
Dr Michelle Russell (Clinical Director) [email protected] or Dr Rachel O’Donnell (Gynae-oncologist) on 0191 2825031, or via email at [email protected].

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Managerial:
•    Provide expert opinion on patients with general gynaecology problems and take independent responsibility for their clinical care.
•    Manage general gynaecology and the diagnostic cancer service.  Undertake operating lists at the RVI/DTC. Provide the appropriate post-operative care for these patients.
•    Contribute to the general organisation and running of the Gynaecology services within the Trust, working in close collaboration with colleagues.
•    Participate in the departmental on-call for general gynaecology with a 1 in 12 rota.
•    Co-Lead the diagnostic oncology service.
•    Assist the Heads of Department, Directorate Manager and Clinical Director in the timely investigation of complaints – working to provide reports within the timeframe set out by Trust policy
•    Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
•    Participate fully in all aspects of Clinical Governance including audit and risk management.
•    Undertake an appraisal. 
•    It is a condition of employment that so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must:
o    be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control
o    attend Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control
o    include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development
o    take personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleagues.

Administrative:
•     Undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of his/her patients and in relation to the running of the Departments of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology in co-operation with the Heads of Department, Specialty Manager and Clinical Director.

Research:
•    The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high profile activity that compliments the service provided. The emphasis being studies that fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio. Research development will be encouraged

Teaching:
•    Participate in the teaching of undergraduate medical students from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in all parts of the course but specifically in stage 3 and 5 during the attachments in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.   
•    Active involvement in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the department with specific responsibility for a small number of individuals as educational supervisor under the direction of the college tutor.
•    The incumbent will be expected to contribute to the teaching of ATSM and subspecialty trainees.
•    Participate in the teaching and training of any other health care professionals within the directorate

Person specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

Essential criteria
  • Primary Medical Qualification
  • Full GMC Registration
  • Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
  • ATSM BAS/Cancer Unit lead
Desirable criteria
  • Higher Degree
  • Special skills training in the specialty
  • Colposcopy
  • Gynaecological ultrasound

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of experience in the specialty
  • Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
  • Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
  • Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
Desirable criteria
  • Independent operating particularly advances laparoscopic skill
  • Exposure to morbidly adherent placenta

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria
  • Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
  • Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
  • An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
  • Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
  • Evidence of leadership / project management
  • Evidence of having implemented change
  • Experience in developing and implementing new technologies

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
  • Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
  • Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
Desirable criteria
  • Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
  • Postgraduate qualification in medical education

Research

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
  • Research/critical review of literature
  • Publications in the last five years
Desirable criteria
  • Higher degree

Audit

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of participation in audit
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
  • Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Alignment with the Trust’s values
  • Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
  • Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
  • A commitment to personal / unit CPD
  • Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
  • Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardRIDI Awards Finalist 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall Gold 2022Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rachel Richardson
Job title
HR Advisor
Email address
[email protected]

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