Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant - O&G (with an interest in Obstetrics/Labour Ward & EPU)

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Location
Frimley, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/10/2025
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Description
Job Overview

We are seeking a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Frimley Park Hospital.

The job will be made up of 10/11 PAs, including a weekly labour ward day time resident consultant session, weekly antenatal clinic, obstetric governance and quality work plus a fortnightly resident 12 hour shift on the EPU/Emergency gynaecology unit (Urgent Gynaecology Care Centre). There will be opportunity for gynaecology outpatient and theatre sessions. Currently this post is on the resident consultant night rota.

Main duties of the job

The job will be made up of 10/11 PAs, including a weekly labour ward day time resident consultant session, weekly antenatal clinic, obstetric governance and quality work plus a fortnightly resident 12 hour shift on the EPU/Emergency gynaecology unit (Urgent Gynaecology Care Centre). There will be opportunity for gynaecology outpatient and theatre sessions. Currently this post is on the resident consultant night rota (17 nights a year).

This post has arisen due to a consultant leaving and the successful candidate would be considered to taking over EPU lead role (depending on their experience).

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached, detailed, job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Entry on Specialist Register (CCT or entry expected within 6 months of interview date) or, for Mediated Entrants, entry on Specialist Registrar prior to application
  • MRCOG or equivalent
  • ATSM in Advanced Labour Ward Practice and ATSM in Benign Gynaecology open and laparoscopic surgery

Desirable criteria

  • Clinical research in the fields of special interest

Specific Competencies for Role

Essential criteria

  • Able to evaluate own clinical practice
  • Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
  • Ability to organise and develop service provision
  • Have a commitment to Continuing Medical Education/ Continuing Professional Development

Professional/Specialist/Functional Experience

Essential criteria

  • Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency and elective within Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Clinical training and experience equivalent to that for gaining UK CCT in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Direct experience of audit
  • Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates, and Obstetric & Gynaecological operative skills to trainee specialists.

Desirable criteria

  • Participation in multidisciplinary team activities
  • Ability to manage and lead specialist unit, directorate and working parties as appropriate

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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