Consultant Obstetrician (Maternal Fetal Medicine)

The post holder would undertake a regular labour ward day at GSTT (08.30-22.30 on site) as well as weekday and weekend obstetric on calls.

The other components of the role include a weekly antenatal clinic at both GSTT and WHH, as well as Fetal Medicine sessions across both Trusts.

This is a joint post with the Women's and Care Group at William Harvey Hospital, East Kent Hospitals Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) and The Directorate of Women's Services at Evelina Women and Children's Hospital, Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals Foundation Trust (GSTT). The Trusts are seeking a full-time (10 PA) Consultant to join two Women's Health departments, with the aim of developing the Fetal Medicine and high risk obstetric service at William Harvey, developing with a team of enthusiastic, passionate consultants at Guys and St Thomas' the expanding Fetal Medicine service and high risk, obstetric and maternal medicine service at Guys and St Thomas' Hospital. The Directorate forms part of Evelina Women and Children's Service Business Unit (SBU).

The Clinical Director at Guys and St Thomas' Hospital is Professor Eugene Oteng-Ntim.

The Clinical Director at William Harvey Hospital is Miss Zoe Woodward.

The GSTT Obstetric Service is led by Dr Sonji Clarke. The Maternity unit serves the local population (which is diverse with high levels of deprivation) as well as receiving referrals from all over the UK and overseas.It is also the hub for the South East London Maternal Medicine Network.

The WHH Obstetric service sees 3500 deliveries per year, and isone of the largest hospital trusts in England, with three acute hospitals and community sites serving a local population of around 700,000. We also provide specialist services for Kent and Medway., 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.