# Locum Consultant Obstetrician > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-obstetrician/d6eb83dd-c8b0-4c6c-bcf4-fc6a4e92d6e5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-obstetrician/d6eb83dd-c8b0-4c6c-bcf4-fc6a4e92d6e5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust - **Location:** University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Obstetrics and Gynaecology - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week (Full on call rota - 10 PA job plan) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-18T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-11T07:50:43.753Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Warwickshire/Coventry/University_Hospitals_Coventry_Warwickshire_NHS_Trust/Obstetrics/Obstetrics-v8219384 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8219384?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhcw.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This post is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to take on a senior role within the Obstetric and Gynaecology Department at UHCW NHS Trust. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with clinical colleagues, to deliver a comprehensive Obstetric service to patients in the Coventry and Warwickshire communities. The post holder will be joining a high performing team, at a Centre which provides regional care across Obstetric, Gynaecological and Neonatal pathways. Alongside this the Department is heavily grounded in research and best practice with close links to the Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research based at UHCW and a fully integrate Centre for Reproductive Medicine. The post holder will be based at the University Hospital, Coventry with outpatient clinic commitments at the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby and community support sites. There will be appropriate involvement in the administration and management functions of the Trust. The scheduling of clinical sessions may change as part of job planning, and the job description will be revisited with the Clinical Director and Group Director of Operations once the successful candidate has been in post for 6 months. ### Main duties of the job - Provide strong leadership to all disciplines and ensure, with the Modern Matrons, that guidance is available to all staff within the obstetrics areas. - Work across disciplines to develop close working patterns, shared guidelines, education and joint standards throughout the department. - Communicate openly and consult with clinicians, midwives, nurses and administrative staff on developments within obstetrics. - Promote the culture of continuous learning and development, ensuring leadership in support of research, audit, education and training. - Participation in Labour Ward Forum and Quality of Care forum and ensuring decisions taken are fed back to ensure that necessary changes are implemented. - Responsibility for patients under his/her care. - Participate in the teaching and supervision of medical students and co-ordinate teaching sessions. - Develop/maintain collaborative relationships with medical colleagues in other specialties and participate in regular clinical meetings and other post graduate activities. - Share responsibility for professional supervision and development of trainee doctors within the specialty. This will include the appraisal of Specialist Trainees in Obstetrics & Gynaecology. - Develop/maintain good communications with General Practitioners and appropriate external agencies. - Ensure own practice is up-to-date; including taking responsibility for own Clinical Professional Development and participating in the trust’s performance and Annual Review system. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Provide strong leadership to all disciplines and ensure, with the Modern Matrons, that guidance is available to all staff within the obstetrics areas. - To work across disciplines to develop close working patterns, shared guidelines, education and joint standards throughout the department. - To communicate openly and consult with clinicians, midwives, nurses and administrative staff on developments within obstetrics. - To promote the culture of continuous learning and development, ensuring leadership in support of research, audit, education and training. - Participation in Labour Ward Forum and Quality of Care forum and ensuring decisions taken are fed back to ensure that necessary changes are implemented. - Facilitating skills drills and ensuring remedial action taken if deficiencies identified. - Take ongoing responsibility for patients under his/her care. - Participate in the teaching and supervision of medical students and co-ordinate teaching sessions. - Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with medical colleagues in other specialties and participate in regular clinical meetings and other post graduate activities. - Share responsibility for the professional supervision and development of trainee doctors within the specialty. This will include the appraisal of Specialist Trainees in Obstetrics & Gynaecology. - Develop and maintain good communications with General Practitioners and appropriate external agencies. - Ensure own practice is up-to-date; this will include taking responsibility for own Clinical Professional Development and participating in the trust’s performance and Annual Review system. - Share responsibility for data protection arising out of the use of computers in compliance with current legislation. - Comply with all relevant Trust policies and procedures. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to undertake multi disciplinary audit - Demonstrate ability to undertake audit projects in specialty area - IT Literacy and presentation skills - Commitment to development and adherence to departmental guidelines and protocols ### Knowledge **Essential** - Understanding of the Clinical governance process **Desirable** - Publication in peer reviewed journals - Experience in risk management ### Experience **Essential** - Clinical training and experience in general obstetrics and gynaecology equivalent to that required for a UK CCT - Appropriate experience in Intrapartum Care - Experience of undergraduate teaching - Experience of supervising junior medical staff in intrapartum care **Desirable** - Qualification in Medical Education ### Qualifications **Essential** - Meets all Essential **Desirable** - Meets all Desirable ### Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. (As detailed in UHCW’s behaviour framework – attached). ## Documents - [locum consultant obstetrician - jd/ps (pdf, 824.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10527694) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.