Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Northumbria Group.; Cramlington; Hybrid; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing programme

Staff networks

Flexible working

Annual leave & pension

Lease car option

Training programmes

Salary sacrifice savings

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Obstetrics & Gynaecology department is recruiting a Consultant for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role includes participation in a 24-hour on-call rota and a mix of obstetric and gynaecology duties within NSECH and surrounding services.

The successful candidate will have MRCOG or equivalent, full GMC registration, and a medical education qualification, with the ability to lead clinical care and participate in education and governance activities.

Qualifications

• MRCOG or equivalent.
• Fully registered on the UK GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT.
• Full GMC Registration.
• Medical Education Qualification.

Responsibilities

• Participate in 24-hour on-call rota.
• Engage in education and teaching as required.
• Contribute to service development and governance.
• Participate in audit and clinical supervision.
• Collaborate across obstetrics and gynaecology services.

Education

MRCOG or equivalent

GMC Specialist Registration or within 6 months of CCT

Full GMC Registration

Medical Education Qualification

Job description

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Obstetrics & Gyanecology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

10 sessions per week Job ref 319-8275447HD-A

Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Salary £113,565 - £150,569 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology is looking to recruit for a 12 month fixed term contract. We are seeking to appoint enthusiastic and committed Consultant in to join the team and cover Trust wide.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading emergency care hospitals, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to adults presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions.

NSECH hosts the trusts acute O&G services. The Emergency Gynaecology Unit manages patients presenting with acute gynaecological conditions, as well as the early pregnancy service. Emergency Gynaecology procedures take place in the NSECH theatre suite, as well as high risk elective cases. The NSECH theatre suite hosts one of the trusts two Davinci surgical robots, used frequently by the Gynaecology team. Following surgery or admission, Gynaecology patients are managed on Ward 15 (Gynaecology & General Surgery).

For Obstetrics NSECH houses a 14 bedded birthing centre, with combined Consultant led and Midwifery led care, a 22 bedded postnatal/ antenatal ward, emergency, and elective obstetric theatres and a new, modern, Pregnancy Assessment Unit (PAU). The service currently delivers around 3,400 babies per year.

Please not we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.

Main duties of the job

Full details of the role are within the attached job description and applicants are invited to speak with our Consultant Head of Service for further information.

The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops.

The Job Plan will typically include an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) for Direct Clinical Care duties (including admin and on-call) and 1.5 Programmed Activities for Supporting Professional Activities (SPA). A proposed job plan has been outlined in Appendix 1 and will be agreed on commencement of appointment.

Consultant medical staff in O&G participate in 7-day working as part of their normal working pattern. Your normal working pattern will be agreed with you locally as part of your job plan and this may consist of shifts of variable working hours including nights and weekends.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Participate in 24 hour on call rota, while maintaining and managing patient workload in antenatal and outpatient clinics.

To participate in training sessions for education and ensure we maintain compliance with CNTS guidelines.

Education & Qualifications

• MRCOG (Member of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) or equivalent
• Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview
• Full GMC Registration
• Medical Education Qualification

Experience & Knowledge

• Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT) in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Experience and awareness of Clinical Governance
• High standard of clinical skill and expertise in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• ATSM or equivalent experience in benign gynaecological surgery
• ATSM or equivalent experience in colposcopy
• Experience of audit management
• Experience of supervising SpR’s
• Formal training in Clinical Supervision/train the trainers

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Kate Carney Job title Clinical head of service Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0344 811 8111

Additional information

Dave Kinnersley
General Manager for Obstetrics & Gynaecology
[e-mail]
via switchboard on 0344 811 8111

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