Job summary
Jersey General Hospital has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced registrar to join our friendly dynamic and diverse team of doctors. UK experience is essential to the role, as is GMC registration, a Primary Medical Degree and a "can do" attitude!
Jersey sits in the Bay of St Malo, 19 miles from the coast of France and 85 miles south of the English coast. Jerseys population is approximately 100,000. Our transport links to all major cities in the UK are excellent, with London only a 40-minute flight away and also sharing the same time zone as the UK.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Job description
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 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Primary Medical Degree
2. Part 1 MRCOG
3. (knowledge of Human Anatomy, Physiology, pharmacology and Biochemistry and their application to the clinical practice of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.)
4. 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).
5. Clinical Experience in an NHS environment
Desirable
6. Part 2 MRCOG
7. MOET (3 year cycle) or
8. PROMPT
9. MS or MD
10. Formal Teaching Qualification
Experience
Essential
11. Clinical Experience in an NHS environment
12. 4 years post-graduate Medical Training
13. 3 years experience in an approved Obstetrics & Gynaecology Training environment, 2 of which must be at Registrar/Middle Grade level or equivalent
14. Evidence of Competency to the level set out for training in MRCOG
15. For Obstetrics and Gynaecology experience in the following
16. Normal Confinement
17. Suturing episiotomy
18. Suturing second and third degree tears
19. Assisted Deliveries
20. Treatment of Obstetric Emergencies (PPH, Pre-Eclampsia)
21. Identification of Abnormal CTG Tracing
22. Fetal Blood Sample
23. Caesarean section
24. Evacuation of Uterus
25. Basic Legal Requirements for consent and note taking
26. Previous exposure to a busy labour ward and ability to perform operative deliveries
27. Gynaecological practice and current treatments to be encountered for patients presenting to the department in the specialty.
Desirable
28. For Obstetrics and Gynaecology experience in the following
29. Hysteroscopy
30. Laporoscopy
31. Treatment of Ectopic Pregnancy
32. Operative Hysteroscopy
33. Operative Laporoscopy
34. Hysterectomy
35. Enthusiastic Teacher
36. Previous Management Responsibility / Leadship Experience