Job overview
Applications are invited for a 10 PA Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
This post offers an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, to work within an established team of 32 Consultants at the Trust.
The role is cross-site across the 2 sites of Epsom and St Helier Hospitals. The on-call commitments for obstetrics will be at the St Helier site with a 1:3 cover.
AAC Interview Date: 11th September 2025 PM
Main duties of the job
The role is multi-site for all activities, there will also be requirements to work at St Helier Hospital, and when the new hospital is built at Sutton, acute work will be undertaken at the Sutton site. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting benign gynaecology and colposcopy clinics and acute gynaecology cover. In addition, they will provide consultant led Labour Ward cover.
The new Consultant will also have shared workload in supervision and training junior doctors in the Labour Ward, antenatal/postnatal and emergency care.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
1. Put the patient first by being happy, helpful, caring, respectful and patient
2. Always taking opportunities to improve, encouraging excellence
3. Work as one team – communicate, collaborate and share
4. Respect each other by being polite, pleasant and listening
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
5. Hold a medical qualification or qualification registered with the GMC
6. Entry onto the Specialist Register for GMC or be within six months of obtaining CCT/CCST or equivalent
7. Appropriate higher medical qualification i.e. MRCOG or equivalent
8. ATSM in in labour ward practice
Desirable criteria
9. ATSM / SITM in benign gynaecology
10. Research experience
11. BSCCP certified in colposcopy
12. Early pregnancy scanning
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
13. High standard of clinical skill and expertise in the specialty
14. Expertise in managing complex gynaecology cases in an MDT environment.
15. Able to contribute to the full range of skills required for the on call rota for the specialty
Desirable criteria
16. Setting up of a specialised clinic/services in gynaecology
17. Experience in gynaecology scanning
Management & Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
18. Audit/Research
19. Has attended a recognised management training event or will have such training on completion of CCT
20. Supervision of post graduate trainees
21. Personal time management skills
22. Clinical Governance
23. Ability to organise inpatient and outpatient waiting lists
Desirable criteria
24. Familiarity within issues of service organisation and development
Teaching Experience
Essential criteria
25. Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate trainees
26. Ability to teach clinical skills
Desirable criteria
27. Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates/post graduates
28. Experience of supervising junior doctors
29. Experience of teaching Lay groups and other staff groups
30. Ability to supervise postgraduate research
31. Medical education degree
Research Experience
Essential criteria
32. Ability to contribute to change management
33. Ability to apply research findings to clinical problems
34. Ability to critically review research
35. Publications in peer review journals
Desirable criteria
36. Higher degree (MD,PhD)
Language
Essential criteria
37. Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
38. Ability to work in a multi- disciplinary team
39. Ability to work in partnership to deliver a patient centred service
40. Demonstrate an understanding and willingness to embrace user involvement
41. Good interpersonal skills
42. Enquiring, critical approach to work
43. Ability to communicate with patients and relatives
44. Commitment to continuing professional development
45. Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities to local, regional or national levels
46. Willingness to work with consultant colleagues and management to maintain and develop a comprehensive service
Our mission: ‘to put the patient first by delivering great care to every patient, every day.’
There’s never been a better time to join the Epsom and St Helier team. Our hospitals are facing a bright and busy future, and our staff have a proven track record in providing high quality, compassionate care for our patients.
Boasting incredible staff benefits and dedicated training schemes, working for us will not only take your career forward, but could help to transform the lives of our patients and visitors.
We offer all employees some fantastic staff benefits, and are the only hospitals in Surrey to offer staff the London high cost area supplement. Our hospitals also benefit from great locations, so whether you're attracted to the bright lights of the city or the countryside of Epsom Downs, both are within easy reach.
FURTHER INFORMATION
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For new entrants into the NHS, your pay under the Agenda for Change or Medical & Dental Pay Bands, will normally be set at the minimum of the pay band as advertised.
If you apply for this position and do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed for interview on this occasion.
ESTH values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.
As a Disability Confident Employer we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.
Internal applicants from underrepresented minority groups are encouraged to seek development support such as work shadowing and interview skills coaching.