Barts Health NHS Trust
Whipps Cross University Hospital
Specialty Doctor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with a special interest in benign gynaecology and Women’s Health Hub
Barts Health NHS Trust is one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers and the largest Trust in the NHS. It was created on 1 April 2012 by bringing together three Trusts: Barts and The London NHS Trust, Newham University Hospital NHS Trust and Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust. The new Trust has a turnover of approximately £1.1 billion and approximately 15,000 employees.
Applicants are invited to apply for the posts above, to join the Women and Children’s Division at Whipps Cross University Hospital. The Division has been rated Good by the CQC and is part of Barts Health NHS Trust, providing Women and Children’s Services across East London.
The post holders will join the team providing services to a multi-ethnic and diverse local population within Waltham Forest and Redbridge. This expanding team, with members who represent The Royal College and the London Deanery provide for approximately 4,000 births per year within a busy maternity service.
The post holder will be a key member of the medical team responsible for the treatment and care of women within our antenatal/postnatal wards, Delivery Suite, gynaecology inpatients, the Emergency Gynaecology Department and the new Women’s Health Hub. In addition, it is expected that he/she will undertake outpatient clinics and operating lists as scheduled.
The Obstetrics & Gynaecology service at Whipps Cross Hospital is renowned not only for training but also for the breadth of experience available due to the diverse demography and epidemiology of the local population.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The maternity department at Whipps Cross University Hospital is a busy unit with 4000 births in 2023/2024 deliveries.
The service has just completed a programme of building work to modernize the maternity unit and create an alongside women’s centre where women with the full spectrum of obstetric and gynaecological issues can be seen in specialist clinics.
The Gynaecology department had just over 10,000 first outpatient appointments provided and 483 electives and 755 emergency cases delivered in theatre.
The BSCCP Accredited Colposcopy unit receives just over 1250 referrals per year, providing a diagnostic and treatment service. The unit participates and is interested in research.
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in this busy and progressive unit supporting existing emergency gynaecology unit and outpatient gynaecological procedures.
There is a 12-bed high risk delivery suite with 2 additional HDU beds. There are 2 new obstetric theatres with a designated recovery suite. There is anaesthetic presence 24 hours a day and a team of obstetric anaesthetic consultants who work alongside the obstetric/ midwifery teams.
The Lilac Birth Centre is an alongside midwifery led unit where low risk women can choose to give birth and there are additional home birth and case loading teams to support choice in place of birth and continuity of care as per “Better Births” recommendations.
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