Job summary
- Main area
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 3 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 423-7805142A
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
NHS Locum Consultant - Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Consultant
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Our award-winning hospital is also in an award-winning location
providing genuine opportunities for a great work-life balance.
Yorkshire has recently been voted as the third best region in the
world by Lonely Planet, and our local towns of Skipton and Ilkley
have been voted as the best places to live in the UK by the Sunday
Times, commending their top-class schools, great transport links.
This is a dynamic department, and the successful applicant will be
required to contribute to ongoing service development. We expect
involvement in our existing quality improvement projects and also
welcome ideas for new work streams. We strongly encourage
leadership development. There is a trust leadership programme in
place and study leave is encouraged for this. We also believe in
maintaining work life balance.
Main duties of the job
The obstetrics and gynaecology medical workforce is currently
comprised of 11 consultants and 1 associate specialists who provide
essential patient led services.
Airedale General Hospital work jointly with other local NHS providers
in the region, including Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust and Bradford District Care Trust, to help ensure we can deliver
a patient led collaborative service and thereby promoting a culture of
safety and improvement
Working for our organisation
Provide clinical expertise and responsibility to the service in terms of knowledge, clinical activity and guidance as needed
Clinical and administrative responsibility for the proper functioning of the Obstetrics and
Gynaecology Department
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CONSULTANTS JOB PLAN
Job Planning will be based on a partnership approach. Consultants
are asked to prepare a draft job plan which is then discussed and
agreed with the Clinical Director and then presented to the Medical
Scrutiny Committee for approval.
Job plans will list all the NHS and any private duties of the consultant, the number of Programmed Activities for which the Consultant is contracted and paid, the consultant’s objectives and agreed supporting resources.
The duties and responsibilities set out in a Job Plan will include, as
appropriate:
• Direct Clinical Care duties including on-call work
• Supporting Professional Activities
• Additional NHS responsibilities – determined against the agreed
Trust tariff allocation
• External duties
The Trust’s strategy is to increase the use of its capital resources
e.g. Theatre, Endoscopy and OPC to facilitate increased productivity
and efficiencies which supports the growth of market share and
business development.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC Registration
- • MRCOG or equivalent
- • Training & experience equivalent to that required for UK CCT
- • Entry onto the Specialist Register in Obstetrics and Gynaecology or within 6 months of CCT date at interview
Experience
Essential criteria
- Competent surgeon (ATSM/SITM etc in benign surgery/laparoscopic surgery or oncology)
- Competent Obstetrician (ATSM/STIM in labour ward/pregnancy care)
- Experience demonstrating potential ability to cope with the demands of a DGH based Consultant Post.
- Evidence of thTraining in Colposcopy.e clinical skills required to fulfil the specialty
- Full BSCCP accreditation
Teaching Skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience in teaching
- Participation in training & supervision of junior medical staff/medical students/staff from other disciplines
Academic Research
Desirable criteria
- Peer reviewed Publications
- Peer reviewed Books/Book chapters
- Higher qualification, MSc, MD
Clinical Governance /Audit Management
Essential criteria
- Evidence of general management training and skills appropriate for the post
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable experience of participation in regular clinical audit and the ability to effect change.
- Demonstrable experience of working to the clinical governance agenda
- Knowledge of organisational aspects of the NHS
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
- Miss Sumita Bhuiya
- Job title
- Clinical Director - Obs & Gynae
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535292226
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