Locum Consultant in Gynaecology-Specialist Interest in Gynae Oncology

• With nearly 9000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
• Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals across the region.
• St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totaling around 3.5 million people.
• The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma.
• A number of our services are members of established clinical networks which bring together doctors, nurses and other clinicians from a range of healthcare providers working to improve the quality of services for patients. These include the South London Cardiac and Stroke Network and the Southwest London and Surrey Trauma Network, for which St George's Hospital is the designated heart attack centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and major trauma centre.

Essential

• Full registration the General Medical Council (GMC) or eligible for full registration if applying from abroad
• Currently on the specialist Register or eligibility for entry within 3 months of the closing date
• MRCOG or equivalent qualification
• RCOG ATSM/SITM in Gynaecology Oncology
• Training in transvaginal scanning, outpatient hysteroscopy

Essential

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT
• Evidence of experience in gynaecological cancers
• Evidence of experience in transvaginal scanning
• Evidence of experience in gynaecological surgery including laparoscopic surgery for gynaecological cancers
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Evidence of developing evidence-based services in obstetrics and gynaecology e.g. audit, guidelines or service development.

Desirable

• Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience.
• Evidence of peer-reviewed publications in the field of oncology
• Evidence of undertaking quality improvement work
• Evidence of initiating research and training programmes

Essential

• Organisational and IT skills
• Ability to work in a team
• Able to demonstrate leadership skills
• Good interpersonal skills and a caring attitude to patients
• Commitment to continuing medical education
• An awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses.