This post offers an exciting opportunity to join a highly motivated team of health professionals providing high quality sexual and reproductive healthcare across the life course model to the population of Hywel Dda University Health board (HDUHB).
The Sexual Health Service within Hywel Dda is a fully integrated, paperless service, delivering care across three counties: Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Ceredigion. Over 37,000 contacts occurred across three counties in 2023-2024, with an expectation that this will increase in line with national statistics. Staff are dual trained in contraception and sexual health working out of seven clinical sites, which are currently a combination of community and hospital-based. The service manages the early medical abortion service at home (EMAH) and leads on the development of abortion services across HDUHB.
Main duties of the job
This post will assist in increasing provision and access to specialist sexual and reproductive health services in the east of the region, focusing on supporting services within Carmarthenshire primarily, but with flexibility to cover services across the three counties when necessary.
The Specialty Doctor will be an integral part of the service, working alongside the senior management team and specialist nurses to further the development of the services in line with national standards.
About us
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health, and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (DFSRH)
2. Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practice
3. MRCOG
4. 4 years full-time postgraduate training (or part-time equivalent), at least 2 of which in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty
Desirable
1. MFSRH
2. DipGUM
3. Letter of competence in Medical education (LoC MEd) or equivalent.
4. Letter of competence in intra-uterine techniques and sub-dermal implants
Clinical Experience
Essential
1. Proven experience in sexual healthcare in specialist services or general practice or gynaecology
2. Commitment to a team approach and disciplinary working
3. Counselling and communication skills
4. Up to date with current practices in Integrated Sexual Health
5. Experience of delivering care to women requesting abortion
Clinical Governance
Essential
1. Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice
2. Knowledge of annual job planning/appraisal/revalidation and review process
Research & Audit
Essential
1. Experience of undertaking a full audit cycle with good understanding of the audit process and benefits within a service
Desirable
1. Evidence of initiating, progressing and concluding audit or research projects with publication
2. Research Degree
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