Job summary
The post is secondary to unit and service expansion and to support the existing team of obstetricians and maternal medicine consultants who provide specialised maternal medicine 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 North West 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 job plan will be negotiated following successful appointment to the post, but would include maternal medicine and high-risk pregnancy general antenatal clinics, Delivery Suite, Maternity Assessment Unit, elective caesarean section list and Maternity Base (antenatal/postnatal) ward rounds. A standard job plan consists of DCC PA, SPA and 1 PA for additional specified roles.
Main duties of the job
This post will have approximately 1 day a month on the Delivery Suite ( hours). This also covers activities on the Midwife Led Unit and the Maternity Assessment Unit (at times when there is no dedicated consultant cover). A monthly elective caesarean section list is also included.
The obstetric service provides hours resident consultant Delivery Suite cover ( hours, 7 days a week), with the vision of providing 24/7 resident cover in the next 1-2 years.
Consultant of the week / Ward round rota (Monday to Friday hours), which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to the maternity base, processing consultant antenatal clinic referrals, and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service.
The 'Consultant of the Week' also takes part in incident reviews, attends the 'Term Admissions' meeting on a Thursday hours, and reviews pregnant women admitted to LUHFT for non-obstetric reasons. Other clinical commitments will be cancelled during this week
'Antenatal Weekend Consultant' rota providing separate cover on a Saturday and Sunday between 9am - 12pm, which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to maternity base and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service
About us
Liverpool Women's delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.
We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests for flexible working on hiring.
Our core value is to ' Be Kind' and we have an ambition to 'Be Brilliant' with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.
The Trust is constantly innovating and evolving it's services to provide the most cutting edge care possible. We have long-term aspirations for the future.
We are committed to creating a greener Liverpool Women's
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post will have approximately 1 day a month on the Delivery Suite ( hours). This also covers activities on the Midwife Led Unit and the Maternity Assessment Unit (at times when there is no dedicated consultant cover). A monthly elective caesarean section list is also included.
The obstetric service provides hours resident consultant Delivery Suite cover ( hours, 7 days a week), with the vision of providing 24/7 resident cover in the next 1-2 years.
The successful candidate will participate in the Consultant of the Week ward round rota (Monday to Friday hours), which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to the maternity base, processing consultant antenatal clinic referrals, and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service. Pregnant women above 18 weeks gestation with acute obstetric problems access the service through the Maternity Assessment Unit. This is an area of high activity where consultant availability benefits both women attending and staff working in this area.
The Consultant of the Week also takes part in incident reviews, attends the Term Admissions meeting on a Thursday hours, and reviews pregnant women admitted to LUHFT for non-obstetric reasons. Other clinical commitments will be cancelled during this week
The successful candidate will also participate in the Antenatal Weekend Consultant rota providing separate cover on a Saturday and Sunday between 9am 12pm, which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to maternity base and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
1. Entry on the GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the Advisory Appointments Committee
2. oMRCOG or equivalent
3. oATSM in Maternal Medicine or equivalent experience
4. oATSM in Advanced Labour Ward Practice or equivalent experience
Desirable
5. oATSM in High Risk pregnancy or equivalent experience
Clinical Experience
Essential
6. Clinical training and experience in: General Obstetrics and Gynaecology equivalent to that required for UK CCT
7. Clinical training and experience in:Experience in a tertiary maternal medicine centre
Desirable
8. oFetal monitoring training
Management and administrative experience
Essential
9. Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
10. Experience in the development of clinical guidelines
11. Experience of audit
Desirable
12. Management or leadership qualification
13. Evidence of completion of quality improvement projects leading to service improvement
14. Evidence of service user involvement in service development
Teaching experience
Essential
15. oEnthusiasm for teaching at all levels
16. oExperience of teaching fetal monitoring
17. oExperience of teaching undergraduates and junior doctors
18. oExperience of teaching other health care professionals
Desirable
19. Teaching qualification
20. Level 1 Educational Supervisor Training
21. MOET Trainer
Research experience
Essential
22. oAbility to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
23. oGCP certification
Desirable
24. Evidence of original work as demonstrated by publications in peer reviewed journals
25. Research activity leading to a higher degree [MD (UK) PhD or MPhil]