Consultant Obstetrician High-Risk Pregnancy and Recurrent Miscarriage

Job overview

Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (LWHFT) is looking for a dynamic and inspiring Consultant Obstetrician to join our team to enhance obstetric services at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust (LWHFT) and further develop our partnership working with the other NHS providers across the city. Liverpool Women’s Hospital is one of the largest purpose-built maternity units in Europe.

The Trust manages approximately 8,000 deliveries per annum, houses the regional Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit, the regional clinical genomics department, and an on-site gynaecological emergency room. LWHFT is the tertiary referral unit for Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Gynaecological Oncology, Reproductive Medicine and Urogynaecology, with subspeciality training programmes in these fields. The University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is also located on this site. LWHFT is one of three Maternal Medicine Centre’s in the Northwest

The post will provide whole time consultant level commitment to obstetrics services and partial commitment to the Gynaecology service at the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust (at the Crown Street and University Hospital Aintree sites).

Main duties of the job

The is a permanent substantive post to support the existing team of obstetricians and early pregnancy loss/recurrent miscarriage consultants who provide specialised antenatal clinics, intrapartum and postnatal care. LWHFT currently provides services to women across Cheshire, Merseyside, and North Wales.

LWHFT facilitates a highly successful recurrent miscarriage and early pregnancy loss service as part of the gynaecology provision. This is run by consultants and specialist nurses, and we would expect the successful candidate to provide additional consultant commitment to this area of work The expectation is that the post holder will provide regular antenatal clinics, which is open to discussion, that serves both the individual and the requirements of the service but are likely to include high-risk pregnancy, multiple pregnancy and recurrent miscarriage and early pregnancy loss clinics

We would aspire that the successful candidate would take on a shared role in the leadership element of fetal surveillance training, education and delivery which attracts an additional 1 PA of job planned activity

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The is a permanent substantive post to support the existing team of obstetricians and early pregnancy loss/recurrent miscarriage consultants who provide specialised antenatal clinics, intrapartum and postnatal care. LWHFT currently provides services to women across Cheshire, Merseyside, and North Wales.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital is one of three Maternal Medicine Centres (MMC) within the Northwest Maternal Medicine Network along with St Mary’s Hospital Saint Mary’s Hospital (Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust) and Royal Preston Hospital (Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).   The Maternal Medicine Centres provide a regional service including pre-pregnancy, antenatal and postnatal care for women who have either pre-existing significant medical problems or medical problems arising in or shortly after pregnancy.  The MMC’s also provide advice and care for the most complex and highest risk women including those with respiratory, haematological, renal and cardiac problems and women diagnosed with cancer.  LWHFT facilitates a highly successful recurrent miscarriage and early pregnancy loss service as part of the gynaecology provision. This is run by consultants and specialist nurses, and we would expect the successful candidate to provide additional consultant commitment to this area of work The expectation is that the post holder will provide regular antenatal clinics, which is open to discussion, that serves both the individual and the requirements of the service but are likely to include high-risk pregnancy, multiple pregnancy and recurrent miscarriage and early pregnancy loss clinics

We would aspire that the successful candidate would take on a shared role in the leadership element of fetal surveillance training, education and delivery which attracts an additional 1 PA of job planned activity