Locum Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist: Sponsorship Available

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

  1. Kingston & Richmond Hospital is a very busy and popular acute general hospital. We serve a population of about 320,000 in Kingston, Esher, Richmond, Roehampton, Putney and other parts of South West London. We provide a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare particularly in ‘patient-focused’ care and maternity services. Following an inspection of key services and the Trust’s leadership in spring 2018, the Care Quality Commission gave Kingston Hospital an ‘Outstanding’ rating for Overall Quality, Caring and Well-led and ‘Good’ rating for Safety’, ‘Effectiveness’ and ‘Responsiveness’.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to appoint a dynamic Locum Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician with an interest in gynae-oncology to complement our existing team. We have a busy outpatient gynaecology service offering the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic outpatient gynaecological services. This is a maternity cover post to support our gynae-oncology team. The gynae-oncology team includes two consultants, two clinical nurse specialists in gynae-oncology, and a dedicated administrative co-ordinator. The successful candidate will be expected to support the local MDT, alongside our substantive gynae-oncologist, gynaecology radiologist, histopathologist and MDT co-ordinator and be involved in the regional MDT. The role is 5.75 PAs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full GMC registration
  • MRCOG or appropriate specialist registration
  • CCT in O&G and on GMC’s Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT from the date of the interview or have confirmed eligibility for Specialist Registration.
  • ATSM gynae-oncology or equivalent ATSM in Colposcopy or equivalent

Desirable

  • MD/PhD
  • ATSM Labour Ward Management
  • Subspecialisation Gynae-oncology

Management Skills

Essential

  • Attended management training course.
  • Able to communicate at a strategic and operational level

Desirable

  • Knowledge of finance / budgets

Experience in Training, Audit and Research

Essential

  • Demonstrable commitment and ability to teach and train undergraduates and junior doctors.
  • Experience of clinical audit and quality improvement projects
  • Experience in working in an MDT

Desirable

  • Completed ‘Train the Trainers’ course
  • Demonstrate an interest in leadership of clinical audit
  • Demonstrate commitment in research.
  • First author research articles peer-reviewed journals
  • Risk Management experience

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Demonstrate leadership skills within a multidisciplinary team.
  • Ability to motivate staff, to facilitate appropriate changes in clinical practice and to work as part of a team.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enthusiasm and approachability.
  • Commitment to continuing professional development and clinical governance
  • Adaptive skills to changing working procedures
  • Enthusiastic
  • Potential to cope with stressful situations and undertake responsibility

Clinical Experience

Essential

  • Clinical training and experience in general Obstetrics and Gynaecology equivalent to that required for a UK CCT
  • Experience in tertiary Gynae-oncology Centre
  • Strong surgical expertise in both laparoscopic and open management of gynaecological pathology

Desirable

  • Experience in outpatient gynaecology procedures e.g gynaecology ultrasound scanning
  • Experience of Robotic Surgery

Specific Additional Skills

Essential

  • Experience in developing obstetric and gynaecology guidelines
  • Course in leadership skills

Desirable

  • Database/computer skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 18 September 2026

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