Consultant in Obstetrics: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are delighted to offer an exciting leadership opportunity for an experienced and motivated Consultant Obstetrician to lead our Outpatient Clinics and Assessment Services. This high-impact role sits at the heart of our maternity service and offers the chance to shape, innovate, and deliver outstanding care for women and families.

The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership across outpatient and assessment pathways, driving service development, quality improvement, and multidisciplinary collaboration in line with national standards and NHS priorities. This post combines senior clinical practice with meaningful leadership influence in a supportive and forward-looking team.

If you are passionate about service excellence, patient experience, and leading positive change within maternity services, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the planning, delivery, development and improvement of outpatient and assessment services (antenatal, pregnancy assessment unit/ triage areas) together with providing a high-quality Obstetrics service including on-call out of hours, in conjunction with consultant colleagues and a multi-disciplinary team. There is flexibility within the department to accommodate the skills of the successful candidate. You will also be required to:

  • Participate in teaching, examination and appraisal duties
  • Bring experience to clinical diagnosis and effective multidisciplinary team-working
  • Develop and implement standards of obstetric & gynaecological practice and have a major role in developing specific pathways, guidelines and risk management including maintaining and developing the risk for inpatient services
  • Audit the effectiveness of practice and develop and modify, as required
  • Train and educate staff in a multidisciplinary team
  • Provide clinical leadership, leading by example

Person Specification

Qualifications & Eligibility

Essential

  • MRCOG or appropriate specialist qualification
  • Possession of relevant Postgraduate Qualification or equivalent
  • Full GMC Registration with a license to practice at time of application
  • GMC Specialist Register for Obstetrics Specialty OR within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview OR If applying for Full GMC Registration & Licence to Practice simultaneously with a Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) application, supporting documentary evidence must be provided at interview, to confirm an application has been submitted & is under consideration by the GMC.
  • Any of the following ATSM or equivalent SSM/ SST/SITMs: ATSM in Advance Labour ward ?ATSM in High-Risk Pregnancy ?ATSM Maternal Medicine, Fetal Care (FC), pregnancy Care (PC)

Desirable

  • Additional higher medical / scientific degree relevant to the specialty
  • SITM in Therapeutic Hysteroscopy

Clinical Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working as a ST7 and above in the NHS
  • A minimum 24 months experience working in a United Kingdom Health Care setting
  • Extensive general obstetric experience-demonstrable competence in the management of low and high-risk obstetric people; Labour ward and emergency obstetric care
  • Experience in diagnostic and outpatient hysteroscopy, including the investigation of abnormal uterine bleeding.

Desirable

  • Experience leading Caesarean Section quality improvement programmes and clinical audits.
  • Experience of maternity pathway redesign and service transformation.

Management & Administrative Experience

Essential

  • Commitment to Continuing Professional Development & the requirements of clinical governance.
  • Experience of formal presentations

Desirable

  • Attended a management course for consultants.

Teaching, Audit & Research

Essential

  • Experience of & commitment to teaching undergraduates & postgraduates
  • Experience of supervising F1, F2, ST trainees.
  • Ability to & experience of teaching clinical skills
  • Experience of & commitment to clinical audit
  • Experience of supervising F1, F2, ST trainees.
  • Ability to & experience of teaching clinical skills

Desirable

  • Specific teaching qualification
  • Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to under-graduates
  • Attended a recognised teaching training course.

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: 31 August 2026

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