Consultant in Reproductive and Sexual Health - Plymouth, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

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Plymouth, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) to join the consultant team based at SHiP (sexual health in Plymouth) at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.

The postholder will be responsible for leading the vulval service which is run out of SHiP.

This is an exciting opportunity to become a substantive, part time (6 sessions per week) Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health based at SHiP, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP).

The job will encompass the full range of Sexual and Reproductive health
- integrated sexual health, training clinics, complex contraception care including deep implant removal, vulval dermatology/pain clinic and pregnancy advisory service. The new appointee will join the existing team of 5 Consultants, who are based at the SHiP site providing services across the city.

The post holder will be expected to deliver a high-quality clinical service, to participate in the normal duties relating to the administration of the department and to participate in teaching, CME and audit.

This post currently comprises of 6 programmed activities (PAs).

It is anticipated that some sessions can be negotiated to accommodate the successful applicant's particular interests and there is likely scope to increase the number of PAs over coming years, in line with departmental succession planning.

The post holder will be expected to provide specialist Sexual and Reproductive services for Plymouth and the surrounding areas, together with appropriate teaching and supervision of junior doctors and medical students.

As a senior employee of the Trust the post holder will work in close cooperation with and support other clinical, medical professional and management colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to our patients.

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following:

To ensure the provision of a first-class clinical service
To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the speciality
To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate
To undertake all work in accordance with the Trust's procedures and operating policies
To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust's and Division's service plans
To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty

- to work effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary and promote team working

The post holder will be key in the overall provision of sexual health services within the city, will deputise for absent colleagues, work flexibly to ensure service delivery and patients care and achieve value for money through the most effective use of resources.

UHP is the largest hospital in the Southwest Peninsula and a major trauma centre, providing comprehensive secondary and tertiary healthcare.

We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the Peninsula Medical School and are a centre for innovation and research.

We employ 6400 staff, have more than 900 beds, and over 48,000 people pass through the main entrance of our hospital in a week.

The Plymouth Radiology Academy is the only purpose-built Radiology Academy in the world and provides an inspirational environment in which to train and work in radiology.

In addition, we have an integrated Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit, which has a staff of approximately 250 military personnel.

Our geography gives us a secondary care catchment population of 450,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services.

The population is characterised by its diversity - the rural and the urban, the wealthy and pockets of deprivation, and wide variance in health and life expectancy.

Population ageing is a recognised national trend, but is exacerbated locally by the drift of younger people out of the area and older people in.

The proportion of our population aged 85 or over is growing ahead of the national average by approximately 10 years and we have developed a Population Health Strategy in response to this demographic shift.

Please see attached job description for full details.

Key Responsibilities - Direct Clinical Care:

Provide level 3 sexual health clinics eg issues with coils, deep implants, complex contraception/ sexual health issues.
Deliver and lead the vulval service. Support for developing this role will be available.
Provide senior medical cover for pregnancy advisory clinics, abortion clinics and perform ultrasounds. Delivery of these clinics will be in a supporting role to the current service lead.
Deliver training and support for nursing staff to ensure we move towards a nurse led model of care for noncomplex termination of pregnancy
To perform MVA terminations of pregnancy (although this aspect could be optional)
Provide training clinics for internal and external staff eg coil training, DFSRH etc
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