Consultant in Community Sexual and Reproductive health (SRH)

We are seeking a part-time (7 PA) Consultant to join a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking team, which has undergone significant growth in the last decade. The department is currently involved in many exciting initiatives and are looking for individuals with appropriate skills to complement this team and help build the community SRH Service to be in the forefront of clinical and academic excellence.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a first class team in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment.

This is a new Consultant in Community Sexual and reproductive Health (cSRH) post created to support the expansion of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) provision and training within the service and to champion high quality cSRH research within the service. The post holder will work collaboratively with the women's health/contraception lead and FSRH principal trainer with overseeing the expansion of LARC services in the department and with delivery and oversight of training for contraception for staff within the department and the organisation as well as with training of the cSRH specialty trainees., This is a new post for a part-time (0.7 WTE) Consultant in Community Sexual and Reproductive Health (cSRH) created to support the cSRH lead consultant with oversight of training within the department for cSRH trainees and for FSRH related training and to provide complex contraception, leadership in sexual health research, training, as well as general clinical and managerial responsibilities in the department.

The post holder will contribute to clinical, teaching, audit and research support for the department and management support for the medical staff and the department in general.

As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract.

A detailed indicative job plan is attached.

The job plan will be negotiated between the consultant and their clinical director/lead at least annually.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is made up of two of London's best known teaching hospitals and employs over 13,000 staff and has over 2 million patient contacts a year. Our annual turnover is now £1.2 billion.

The Sexual and Reproductive Health department at Guy's and St Thomas' (GSTT) incorporates three integrated clinics. We provide a full range of sexual and reproductive health services based at Burrell Street, Walworth Road, and Minnie Kidd House, covering a diverse client group across Southwark and Lambeth. We run a walk-in service across five days at Walworth Road and Minnie Kidd House, and a seven-day service at our Burrell Street location.

It is a busy department seeing 66000 patient attendances annually. Lambeth and Southwark have the highest sexual health needs in England and the service is at the heart of the new Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy for South East London with the challenge of increasing access to LARC and reducing unplanned pregnancies in young people.

We have strong links with Lambeth and North Southwark primary care for whom we are the lead providers. The department works in close collaboration with women's health services, Urology, Dermatology, infection services, emergency department and inpatient services.

The service is going through an organisational restructure to increase accessibility for LARC, HIV PrEP, STI prevention and care.

£105,504 to £139,882 a year pro rota exc. L/Z-Part time - 7 PA sessions per week