Locum Consultant Gynaecologist in Reproductive Medicine
Posted 11 days 21 hours ago by NHS
Barts Health NHS Trust are currently welcoming applications for a full time 10PA locum consultant to join the Centre for Reproductive Medicine, based at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
The Fertility service at Barts Health is one of the largest NHS services and has excellent clinical results. The Centre receives referrals for secondary and tertiary diagnosis and treatment, and offers a wide range of services, including all forms of male and female outpatient diagnostic assessment, assisted reproduction technologies including IUI, IVF, ICSI, sperm and ovum donation, a full range of sperm retrieval techniques, and male and female fertility preservation for acute and chronic conditions including oncological.
The Centre also offers specialised menopausal, gynae-endocrinology and andrology clinics, and general benign gynaecological and reproductive surgery.
Main duties of the jobThe successful applicant will join the senior team of three Subspeciality trained consultants and two Specialist grade doctors in providing a complete range of services, as well as managing and training junior medical and nursing staff.
The post holder will be expected to participate in all activities of the consultant-led general fertility and assisted reproductive technology (ART) service, including outpatient clinics, theatre lists and IVF procedures (egg retrievals, embryo transfers, fertility scanning etc.). The successful candidate will also support the senior team in providing on-call cover for the Reproductive Medicine service during nights and weekends on a 1:5 basis.
Job responsibilities- To be an active member of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine and help deliver the departmental mission of excellence in clinical care and teaching.
- To contribute to the provision of a comprehensive, efficient and high quality evidence-based Reproductive Medicine service, with continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care.
- Be responsible for a clinical caseload, ensuring highest quality of clinical care.
- To provide clinical leadership within the Reproductive Medicine service.
- To participate and lead in Clinical Audit activities, which is an essential and regular part of clinical practice and CPD.
- To participate in the Trust's clinical governance activities, as well as the specific HFEA requirements for a tertiary centre, and to encourage and foster improvements in the quality and standards of clinical services.
- To play an active role in facilitating clinical research, including the supervision of junior staff in the development of their research training and programmes.
- MRCOG or equivalent
- Full and specialist registration (with a licence to practice) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or be eligible for registration/ or entry into the specialist register within 6 months of the interview)
- The equivalent of 4 years full time postgraduate training of which 2 years in a Reproductive Medicine trainee post
- Higher research degree (MD, PhD, MD (Res
- Other qualifications which might enhance the provision of the service e.g. Teaching qualification, management qualification
- Evidence of broad experience in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Minimum 2 years experience in Assisted Reproductive Techniques
- Experience in gynaecological ultrasound
- Able to take responsibility of service without direct supervision
- Experience performing Hycosys
- Specialist experience and training in Reproductive Medicine
- Good knowledge and experience in Assisted Reproductive Techniques
- Good knowledge of, and the ability to use, spoken and written English
- Ability to work across sites
- Participate in the on-call rota
- Ability to present effectively to an audience, using a variety of methods to respond to questions and queries
- Understanding of the clinical governance agenda
- Ability to co-ordinate and plan and execute research and routine studies
- Good skills in minimal
- Evidence of leadership
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and with colleagues at different locations
- Good oral and written communications skills
- Ability to relate to colleagues and other professionals and communicate between specialities and disciplines
- Ability to build and support a team
- Broad range of IT skills
- Evidence of experience in teaching and clinical/educational supervision
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.