Staff Grade in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Job responsibilities

The unique location, geography and constitution of the Island means that the Department provides a much wider range of services than would be expected in a comparative health authority or Social Services in the United Kingdom.

The post holder will be assigned general clinical duties to include attendance at out-patient clinics and theatre sessions. Specialist skills such as Infertility, Early Pregnancy Scanning, or Colposcopy would be advantageous and these skills would be included in the weekly timetable. The post holder will provide the appropriate level of support to the Consultant Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the care of the patients.

Jersey is fortunate to have maintained a team structure so the post holder would be assigned to work with a named consultant. The post holder will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and the efficient running of the department, ensuring that up-to-date, accurate, legible and comprehensive signed notes are recorded in the patients case notes.

The post holder will prescribe appropriate medication and therapy, ensure that any procedure for patient management are undertaken at the most appropriate time and in the most appropriate location, promoting patient dignity and privacy. The post holder will be required to undertake and pass Health and Community Services e-Prescribing course.

The post holder will support the Consultant Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the development, review and updating of protocols and practice regarding the management of obstetric and gynaecological patients.

Close links are maintained with the Wessex Deanery and other major centres in the UK and consultants in areas such as oncology, neurology and cardiology visit the Island on a regular basis. The post holder will be expected to participate in the training of Junior Medical Staff and Medical students for whom he/she is responsible and ensure that training and learning needs are identified and facilitated.

The post holder will be expected to take part in management and audit activities and represent the service at Hospital meetings, as agreed with colleagues.

The post holder will be expected to be fully involved in a Risk Management programme and support the Governance agenda.

The post holder will deputise from time to time for absent colleagues, performing additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances; being available for such irregular duties is essential for the continuity of patient care.

Doctors are expected to be flexible and to cooperate with reasonable requests to cover for their colleagues absences where it is practicable to do so. Where doctors undertake such duties in addition to their contracted hours they will receive appropriate remuneration.

The post-holder will be indemnified by the States of Jersey for all public work undertaken as part of his/her Contract of Employment. The provision of indemnity cover for any other medical activities will be the responsibility of the post-holder.

Qualifications

Essential

• Primary Medical Degree
• Part 1 MRCOG (knowledge of Human Anatomy, Physiology, pharmacology and Biochemistry and their application to the clinical practice of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.)
• Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a Licence to practise (for overseas candidates it is mandatory that a licence is obtained prior to appointment).

Desirable

• Part 2 MRCOG
• MOET (3 year cycle) or PROMPT
• Clinical Experience in an NHS environment
• MS or MD
• Formal Teaching Qualification

Experience

Essential

• 4 years post-graduate Medical Training
• 3 years experience in an approved Obstetrics & Gynaecology Training environment, 2 of which must be at Registrar/Middle Grade level or equivalent
• Evidence of Competency to the level set out for training in MRCOG
• Obstetrics:
• Normal Confinement
• Suturing episiotomy
• Suturing second and third degree tears
• Assisted Deliveries
• Treatment of Obstetric Emergencies (PPH, Pre-Eclampsia)
• Identification of Abnormal CTG Tracing
• Fetal Blood Sample
• Caesarean section
• Gynaecology:
• Evacuation of Uterus
• Basic Legal Requirements for consent and note taking
• Previous exposure to a busy labour ward and ability to perform operative deliveries
• Gynaecological practice and current treatments to be encountered for patients presenting to the department in the specialty

Desirable

• Gynaecology:
• Hysteroscopy
• Laporoscopy
• Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancy
• Operative Hysteroscopy
• Operative Laporoscopy
• Hysterectomy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).