Locum Obs & Gynae Consultant

Client Name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Role: Locum Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant

Rates: Negotiable

Shifts: Full time including on calls

Location: Sutton-in-Ashfield

Benefits:

• Over 5,000 new job requests received every week. Approved supplier on every NHS medical locum framework
• Priority access and first sight of large number of jobs across multiple NHS trusts/health boards
• Competitive pay rates
• Flexibility on jobs/shifts; long term jobs and short ad hoc shifts available
• A dedicated point of contact
• Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
• Lucrative referral scheme
• Revalidation support
• 24/7/365 service - we are available when you need us
• Access to The Support Hub - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.

Working flexible shifts at King's Mill Hospital, you will join a team of consultants dedicated to providing obstetric or gynaecological care while also being a pillar of clinical and educational support for junior doctors and trainees. In obstetrics, with ever-rising delivery rates, Consultants who can provide direct specialist care for women and supervise and support trainees and midwives on the labour ward are crucial.

The King's Mill Hospital takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously. As a result, you will have access to some of the most advanced medical equipment in the country and unparalleled opportunities for specialism, research, and academia throughout your consultancy.

Skills focus

As an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant, you are critical for developing, improving, and expanding the services within Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Here you will be working alongside a cohesive team of dynamic, motivated and progressive Consultants who are committed to patent care, research, academia and knowledge.

General key skills

In addition to your qualifications, as an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant, you will have:

• Quick thinking abilities
• Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
• Excellent attention to detail
• A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
• Excellent timekeeping
• A pro-active approach to research and academia
• Empathy and understanding
• A flexible attitude
• A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
• Active listening skills

Main Duties/Responsibilities

As an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust you will:

• Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
• Coordinate treatment plans and prescribe various types of treatment.
• Provide constant monitoring and care for patients.
• Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
• Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
• Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
• Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
• Conduct research to help develop and test surgical techniques and equipment that can improve operating procedures and outcomes
• Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications

Essential

• Recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
• Must be able to do Gynae theatres and it would be helpful but not essential if able to do outpatient hysteroscopy and termination clinics.

Skills focus

If you can demonstrate a commitment to quality improvement, patient safety, medical education and research and development, you are precisely the type of Consultant Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are looking for. Apply today.