Consultant Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Gynae-Oncology Specialist) in Birmingham

Are you nearing CCT or a newly qualified Consultant looking for your first posting or an experienced Consultant looking for a change? Are you the type of person who thrives on challenge, who sees health inequalities not as statistics but as lives to transform?

Do you align to our values of Kind, Connected, Bold and can drive real change in patient experience and are not afraid of hard work when it means making a genuine difference?

Our Board has approved 10 newly created fully funded consultant posts - strategic investment reflecting our commitment to transformation. Like Obstetrics and Gynaecology services nationwide, we face considerable pressures, with the additional complexity of serving communities experiencing significant health inequalities. We're currently on the Maternity Safety Support Programme and addressing backlogs within our Gynaecology service. Our teams are working under significant pressure, and we're addressing cultural challenges that require sustained leadership.

We're seeking consultants who want to help build our future - creating an integrated supportive team that will redefine collaborative care improving the care for our community.

Our expansion sees a focus on:

• Fetal medicine
• Urogynaecology
• Menopause
• Maternal medicine
• Cancer pathways & Vulval disease
• Gynaecology diagnostics - Colposcopy / Hysteroscopy
• General O&G care

Your impact and opportunity:

This represents genuine institutional commitment - a Trust that acknowledges its challenges and invests meaningfully in sustainable solutions. Here, your consultant expertise directly contributes to excellence in training the consultants of our future and improving women's health and neonatal outcomes. Your clinical decisions will influence population health across communities that would benefit greatly from your skills.

You'll encounter clinical complexity that draws on all your expertise. You'll work within system challenges that require innovative thinking and collaborative solutions. Most importantly, you'll practise medicine where it can have profound impact - driving evidence-based improvements in real communities.

This role offers impactful Consultant practice - work that creates lasting positive change for the women and families we serve. Whilst the work is demanding and the challenges are real, you'll be supported in making a difference that extends far beyond individual patient encounters.

Your 10 programmed activities represent our investment in sustainable transformation. Our values framework supports this work because meaningful change requires both clinical excellence and authentic leadership.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

The post is to support the care provided to women within the Women's Units at Birmingham Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals (HGS) now part of University Hospital Birmingham. Cross site working will be part of the main duties and responsibilities.

The post holder will be expected to work with local managers and professional colleagues in the efficient running and development of the obstetric services. The appointee will:

• Join the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant team to deliver a first class service at University Hospital Birmingham and contribute to the development of the service.
• Support the directorate in meeting the challenging key safety and performance indicators.
• Deliver agreed standards of care and participate in consultant presence on delivery suites at Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals and on-call for Obstetrics across all sites.
• Provide continuing patient care in partnership with consultant colleagues across the hospital sites.
• Support delivery of activity targets in partnership with Clinical Commissioning Groups and support service developments including the Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity Programme (BUMP) through the Local Maternity Service (LMS).
• Allow flexibility through effective prospective cover of sickness and annual leave.
• Provide professional supervision, direction and training for junior medical staff.
• Take an active role in audit, research, teaching and governance.
• Participate in the late evening shift and cross site on-call rota for obstetrics.
• Participate in plans to lead to cost efficiencies across the specialty.
• Contribute to risk management procedures.
• Ensure Continuing Professional Development targets are achieved.
• Take part in the GMC revalidation, annual appraisal and job planning processes.

The post holder will undertake other duties as may be required to achieve the Trust's objectives, commensurate with the grading of the post. These duties and responsibilities are not intended to be exhaustive. Duties may be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances. Duties will be reflected in a job plan, which will be subject to annual review with the Clinical Service Leads and the Divisional Director.

The post holder will be provided with the necessary IT equipment and access to training to be in position to meet these objectives. Office space and secretarial support will be provided although both may be shared.

Supporting professional activities (SPAs) are expected to be worked on site unless agreed otherwise with the Clinical Service Leads and specified in the job plan. SPAs will be allocated within the Trust to provide time for development of staff, services, governance and other issues as determined by the post holder in agreement with the Clinical Service Leads. Time for private practice off site is supported under the contract.

Flexible Direct Clinical Care (DCC) will be used firstly for emergency cover to cover a colleague on leave and occasionally to increase activity because of peaks in demand. Six weeks notice will generally be given for work required outside regular PA sessions. Total PAs can be averaged over a number of weeks to do more than 10 in some weeks and less in others, as long as an average of 10 PAs per week is achieved. Late evenings and weekend on call are allocated on a rota at least 6 weeks in advance. Cover for long days and weekends that are inconvenient for any reason is arranged by the person allocated to that night or weekend by swapping with a colleague. They will be responsible for informing the rota organiser and the switchboard of any differences from the published rota.

The operational principle that the directorate aims to achieve whenever possible is for another consultant to re-use patient contact sessions that would otherwise be cancelled or remain uncovered due to leave or other agreed reasons for absence.

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration (E)
• Relevant CCT or equivalent (equivalence must be confirmed by PMETB/GMC by date of AAC) (E)
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist register or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the AAC (E)
• MRCOG or appropriate specialist qualification (E)
• ATSM in Advanced Labour Ward practice or equivalent experience (E)
• ATSM in Oncology or equivalent training and experience in diagnostic gynae-oncology (E)

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green E
Birmingham
West Midlands
B9 5SS
United Kingdom