SWL Bank NMC Registered - Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom - Kingston Hospital

Description

Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.

We employ 3,300+ staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.

The South West London Collaborative Bank

Kingston Hospital is a part of the local South West London Collaborative and offer competitive bank rates to work across the three NHS trusts: St Georges, Kingston Hospital and Epsom & St Helier. Our Smart App booking system makes life easier for flexible working

Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits

The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and offers a wide range of benefits that recognise staff contribution, provide opportunities for career development and offer initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance
-Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year.
-HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019.

Trust Values

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:

Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

Job overview

SENIOR CLINICAL FELLOW IN OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY – SPECIAL INTEREST Minimal Access Surgery

We are looking for a Senior clinical fellow with competencies equivalent to ST6+ level in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, to join our dynamic team of Speciality Trainees as a Fellow in Minimal Access Surgery. The post holder will be one of the senior clinical fellows in the department and work on the Registrar rota with daytime and resident on-call commitments (1:9 Two tier registrar nights).

Main duties of the job

The post will ideally suit a candidate who wishes to develop specialist knowledge and skills in managing women with endometriosis and other common benign gynaecological conditions. The 2nd aim of this fellowship programme is integrating the successful fellow into our research and training projects.

The successful fellow should expect to become surgically proficient in excising mild and moderate endometriosis and become experienced in other minimally invasive surgical techniques for hysterectomy, fibroids, and complex adnexal problems. The final training targets could be adjusted according to the successful candidate's needs and previous experience.

Working for our organisation

The new fellow will work with their mentor to provide GESEA certification courses/ laparoscopic suturing masterclass courses as well as running Hands on Training sessions to other trainees.

The job will involve a weekly specialist gynaecology endometriosis clinic, a weekly minimal access theatre list and an alternate week session for research and to be part of the minimal access training group. The successful candidate will be expected to be part of the on-call and elective rota to cover both gynaecology and maternity. This includes additional benign gynaecology clinics and occasional antenatal clinics.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will participate in departmental teaching, audits and governance meetings. There will also be the opportunity to take part in research.

We are a district general hospital Obstetric and Gynaecology department with over 5000 deliveries per year, a busy acute gynae service and elective gynaecology. We aim to provide a high quality service for our patients in line with the Trust philosophy of delivering patient care that is Safe, Caring, Responsible and Valued.

Person specification

Qualifications

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Clinical Experience

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Specific Additional Skills

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Management Skills

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Experience in Training, Audit and Research

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Personal Qualities

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Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : Kingston Hospital NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Salary :

For applicants without prior NHS experience at the same pay band or higher, the salary will start at the lower value within the advertised range.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.