Specialty Doctor Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Skills

We are looking for a Specialty Doctor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology to join our team at Wye Valley NHS Trust. The post offers an attractive varied timetable with a potential for development of personal skills in one or more areas including:

• Urodynamics
• Gynaecological scanning
• Colposcopy towards BSCCP
• Out-patient hysteroscopy
• Labour Ward
• Termination of pregnancy

Some of the benefits of being part of our team include:

• Friendly and pleasant hospital in wonderful rural area.
• Fantastic quality of life
• Good clinical environment and state-of-the-art equipment
• Excellent clinical experience and teaching

We are looking for a Doctor with previous NHS experience. This role would suit a doctor who is interested in gaining further clinical experience and before applying for specialist registration through the Portfolio Pathway (previously known as CESR).

Responsibilities

10.5 doctors share the middle grade work of the department. This will include labour ward and emergency cover, gynaecology clinics, antenatal clinics, theatre sessions, colposcopy and endometrial assessment clinics and attendance at other special interest clinics. You will be responsible for the day to day management of patients under your care and ensure that patients are adequately prepared for theatre and discharge. You will be responsible for ensuring that each patient goes home with a hand‑written or electronic discharge summary. The middle‑grade doctors will be expected to take part in the teaching of the women\’s health junior doctors and medical students – both formally and informally. Similarly teaching of nurses and midwives will be expected.

You must be aware of and put into practice the Health and Safety procedures relevant for each ward or department in which you are required to work.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross‑on‑Wye. Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it\’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work‑life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: \”The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.\”

Our values – Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence – are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

For further information on the duties and responsibilities please see attached the Job Description and Personal Specification.

This advert may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.