Consultant Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Gynae-Oncology Specialist

Job Summary

Are you nearing CCT or a newly qualified Consultant looking for your first posting or an experience Consultant looking for a change? Are you the type of person who thrives on challenge, who sees health inequalities not as statistics but as lives to transform?

Are you nearing CCT or a newly qualified Consultant looking for your first posting or an experience Consultant looking for a change? Are you the type of person who thrives on challenge, who sees health inequalities not as statistics but as lives to transform? Do you align to our values of Kind, Connected, Bold and can drive real change in patient experience and are not afraid of hard work when it means making a genuine difference?

Our Board has approved 10 newly created fully funded consultant posts - strategic investment reflecting our commitment to transformation. Like Obstetrics and Gynaecology services nationwide, we face considerable pressures, with the additional complexity of serving communities experiencing significant health inequalities. We're currently on the Maternity Safety Support Programme and addressing backlogs within our Gynaecology service. Our teams are working under significant pressure, and we're addressing cultural challenges that require sustained leadership.

We're seeking consultants who want to help build our future - creating an integrated supportive team that will redefine collaborative care improving the care for our community.

Our expansion sees a focus on - Fetal medicine, Urogynaecology, Menopause, Maternal medicine, Cancer pathways & Vulval disease, Gynaecology diagnostics-Colposcopy / Hysteroscopy, General O&G care. Your impact and opportunity
- This represents genuine institutional commitment - a Trust that acknowledges its challenges and invests meaningfully in sustainable solutions. Here, your consultant expertise directly contributes to excellence in training the consultants of our future and improving women 's health and neonatal outcomes. Your clinical decisions will influence population health across communities that would benefit greatly from your skills. You'll encounter clinical complexity that draws on all your expertise.

You'll work with in system challenges that require innovative thinking and collaborative solutions. Most importantly, you'll practise medicine where it can have profound impact - driving evidence-based improvements in real communities. This role offers impactful Consultant practice - work that creates lasting positive change for the women and families we serve. Whilst the work is demanding and the challenges are real, you'll be supported in making a difference that extends far beyond individual patient encounters.

Your 10 programmed activities represent our investment in sustainable transformation. Our values framework supports this work because meaningful change requires both clinical excellence and authentic leadership.

• Join the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant team to deliver a first class service at University Hospital Birmingham and contribute to the development of the service.
• Support the directorate in meeting the challenging key safety and performance indicators.
• Deliver agreed standards of care and participate in consultant presence on delivery suites at Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals and on-call for Obstetrics across all sites.
• Provide continuing patient care in partnership with consultant colleagues across the hospital sites.
• Support delivery of activity targets in partnership with Clinical Commissioning Groups and support service developments including the Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity Programme (BUMP) through the Local Maternity Service (LMS).
• Allow flexibility through effective prospective cover of sickness and annual leave.
• Provide professional supervision, direction and training for junior medical staff.
• Take an active role in audit, research, teaching and governance.
• Participate in the late evening shift and cross site on-call rota for obstetrics
• Participate in plans to lead to cost efficiencies across the specialty.
• Contribute to risk management procedures.
• Ensure Continuing Professional Development targets are achieved.
• Take part in the GMC revalidation, annual appraisal and job planning processes.

The post holder will undertake other duties as may be required to achieve the Trusts objectives, commensurate with the grading of the post.

These duties and responsibilities are not intended to be exhaustive. Duties may be…