Job overview
Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV
Applications are invited to apply for the above locum Consultant post in the Oxfordshire Sexual Health Service (OSHS). The successful candidate will primarilybased at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, but may also have commitments in our level service in Banbury.
The post is an opportunity to work in a comprehensive integrated sexual health and HIV service providing a countywide service. In addition to sexual health the department hosts the following services:diagnosis and treatment of complex genital conditions; holistic care of patients who present following sexual assault;HIV care; community gynaecology; psychosexual counselling and outreach. This is a maternity cover post for a month period.
Main duties of the job
BACKGROUND
In April Oxfordshire’s GUM/HIV and contraceptive services merged, providing a single comprehensive level - sexual health service across Oxfordshire. The service is the largest in the Thames Valley. Attendances by a mobile student population represent a significant proportion of the clinical workload in Oxford.
In, with the beginning of the COVID- Pandemic, service delivery was forced to change, with the closure of clinics and rapid redesign of our service. As restrictions eased, a new service model evolved – and we are providingservicesabove and beyond what we were previously: with continuationofsome telemedicine services, opening up all our level services to full capacity and re-establishing our peripheral clinics. With this hybrid of different services, we have on average, patient interactions a year. In addition, our postal kit service has hugely expanded. In the last years the service has evolved to ensure we deliver a full online service, with clinical care that is tailored to all patient’s needs.
The HIV service in Oxfordshire is provided by OSHS and the Infectious Diseases team. We have an approximate patient cohort and this workload is shared jointly between the two departments. OSHS delivers outpatient HIV service whereas our Infectious Diseases team delivers the inpatient and outpatient HIV service.There are joint MDTs and the potential in the future to merge the services completely.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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