Consultant Gynaecologist - Special Interest in Gynaecological OncologyNHS
Job summary
The Gynaecological Oncology Department is looking for a full-time Consultant in Gynaecology with an interest in Gynaecological Oncology. The post holder will be expected to provide specialist Gynaecological Oncology unit services at Guy's and St Thomas' sites. Experience and a demonstrated ability of diagnosing Gynaecological Malignancy, performing out-patient ambulatory management of women with abnormal vaginal bleeding, diagnostic and therapeutic colposcopy, diagnostic surgery to identify gynaecological malignancy. Experience of research, audit and working within a well-established Gynaecological Oncology multidisciplinary team will be a requirement for the post. The postholder should be an accredited Colposcopist with the BSCCP and completed RCOG SITM/ATSM and/or subspecialty training in Gynaecological Oncology. The applicant will be required to have ultrasound scanning skills..
This is an excellent opportunity to join a first class team in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment.
Main duties of the job
This job is anticipated to contain 10 Programmed Activities per week on average to be carried out on Guy's & St Thomas' sites and includes on-call commitments and Saturday work.
This post will provide the appointee with extensive experience in the Urgent Suspected Cancer (USC) service.
Please read Job Description for full scope of the role, but main duties include:
Rapid Access Clinics
Colposcopy Clinics
Ultrasound Clinics
Diagnostic Theatres
Ward Round
Multi Disciplinary Team meetings
Clinical Review for patients (including triage and reviewing results)
On call 1:8 midweek nights and weekends.
Job description
The proposed job plan is included below. Please note this is subject to change and will be confirmed ahead of the start date.
MON
TUE
WED
THU
FRI
Sat
AM
Colposcopy MDM
(1:2)
OR
Colposcopy
Clinic (1:2)
Ward Round
RAC
RAC
All day theatre list
(1:2)
Clinical Review
Clinical Review
PM
SPA
SPA
RAC
Ultrasound Scan Clinic (1:2) / RAC
OTHER
1:8 Gynae Oncology
On Call for mid week and weekends (midweek day TBC)
About us
The team provides tertiary gynaecological oncology surgery for South East London (catchment area 2.1 million), unit level diagnosis and management of women with gynaecological malignancy and diagnostic and therapeutic colposcopy for women living in Lambeth and Southwark. The team are due to move from women's services to the surgical oncology directorate. The outpatient diagnostic two week wait Rapid Access clinics and Colposcopy clinics are co-located with the benign gynaecology outpatient clinics. The cancer team has many areas of special interest including minimally invasive and fertility sparing surgery, ultra-radical ovarian cancer surgery, sentinel node surgery, the use of ultrasound to diagnose malignant ovarian masses, inherited genetic risk and specialist vulval disease clinics. The two week wait clinics operate a one stop model with same day ultrasound, and ambulatory hysteroscopy - diagnostic and therapeutic, vulval, vaginal and cervical biopsies.