Consultant Obstetrician

Job overview

UHL provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for over 10,000 births per year across two Delivery Suites and two co-located Birth Centres.

Our service includes one Level 3 neonatal unit at Leicester Royal Infirmary and one Level 1 unit at Leicester General Hospital. In addition to providing care for the families of Leicestershire, we are a major tertiary referral centre providing comprehensive Fetal and Maternal Medicine services across the East Midlands. As a surgical, cardiac, and genetic referral centre,

UHL delivers specialist multidisciplinary care for pregnancies complicated by fetal or maternal medical conditions, as well as for women at high risk of massive haemorrhage.

UHL is recognised as the regional host for abnormally invasive placenta service (AIP).

Consultants are encouraged to have a specialist service in obstetrics as well as standard setting in all aspects of care. Joint working with anesthesia, haematology, endocrinology, renal medicine and cardiology is well established, and we host the regional Maternal Medicine Network.

The Maternal Medicine Centre provides care for women with complex medical needs from both the local population and referring hospitals. It hosts highly specialised weekly clinics covering diabetes, hypertension, haematology, cardiology, nephrology, HIV, perinatal mental health, drug misuse and preterm birth prevention.

Main duties of the job

The job plan will be subject to annual review, with any revisions sought by mutual agreement but it is expected that the successful candidate will work with the CMG management team to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and reflect best practice with processes and governance to match - this may require new and flexible ways of working in the future.

The job plan runs over a nine week period and consists of 2 types of working week:

Hot Week Delivery Suite Cover

Core job plan

The Consultants work in teams. The teams provide prospective cover for clinics, MAU and elective Caesarean section lists. Therefore there has to be a degree of flexibility for these sessions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will be required to undertake managerial duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of their Clinical Department. They will have an understanding of the wider health agenda and modern NHS.

The successful candidate will be required to work in a multidisciplinary team and supervise juniors

It is expected that most consultants within the Trust will have 2 PA’s for Supporting Professional Activities (SPA).

• PA’s are allocated as a minimum to all consultants for SPA in order to support the requirements of revalidation, which include activities such as participating in audit, CPD and mandatory training.

In addition, 0.25 PA will be allocated for Educational Supervisors per supervisee and 0.25 PA for education/teaching

Candidates should have completed specialty training or be within 6 months of completion of training. We welcome informal approaches from interested candidates, who may contact the Joint Head of Service for Obstetrics Dr Penny McParland, on 0116 258 7770