Clinical Fellow O&G

Job summary

Joining Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust as a Clinical Fellow ST6-8 in Obs&Gynae offers an opportunity to develop your clinical practice within a large, supportive and forward thinking Women and Children's Directorate. This role is ideal for a motivated doctor seeking broad, high quality experience across both obstetrics and gynaecology, with genuine opportunities to develop specialist interests, confidence and autonomy while working within a well established consultant led service. Worcestershire Royal Hospital houses maternity and emergency gynaecology, while elective, work is delivered across the county.

You will work within a large, approachable consultant body covering the full range of subspecialties, including maternal and fetal medicine, endometriosis and pelvic pain, urogynaecology, infertility, oncology, colposcopy and ambulatory gynaecology. Clinical Fellows are encouraged to shape their role around career aspirations, with strong support for training, audit, quality improvement, education and research. Above all, this is a Directorate that values its people. With a strong focus on safety, learning and continuous improvement, and a shared ambition to progress from a Good to Outstanding CQC rating, Worcestershire offers a welcoming, progressive environment in which to develop your career.

Main duties of the job

Under the guidance of the consultants, the post holder will be responsible for the clinical care of Obstetric and Gynaecological patients.We have 2 teams on call - one for Obstetrics and a separate team for Gynaecology.

Assist at Out-patient clinics (Antenatal and general Gynaecology).

Participate on call as part of the middle grade rota 1:9

Perform surgery in obstetrics and gynaecological within his/her capability without supervision and if difficulties arise beyond his/her competence to consult the relevant or on call Consultant.

Be responsible for the maintenance of proper case records and investigations on patients, and correspondence with General Practitioners and others as required

In our department opportunities exist for Clinical Fellows to develop and train in Ambulatory Gynaecology (comprehensive service providing outpatient hysteroscopy, Myosure and endometrial ablation), Colposcopy, endometriosis management, infertility, Maternal Medicine and Urogynaecology. We have well established multidisciplinary endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics, Fetal medicine scan clinics and diabetes clinics.

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.