Consultant Obstetrician with a special interest in Maternal Medicine

at  Liverpool Womens NHS Foundation Trust

This post will have approximately 1 day a month on the Delivery Suite (08.30-20.30 hours). This also covers activities on the Midwife Led Unit and the Maternity Assessment Unit (at times when there is no dedicated consultant cover). A monthly elective caesarean section list is also included. The obstetric service provides 108.5 hours resident consultant Delivery Suite cover (08.30-00.00 hours, 7 days a week), with the vision of providing 24/7 resident cover in the next 1-2 years.
The successful candidate will participate in the Consultant of the Week ward round rota (Monday to Friday 09.00-15.00 hours), which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to the maternity base, processing consultant antenatal clinic referrals, and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the service. Pregnant women above 18 weeks gestation with acute obstetric problems access the service through the Maternity Assessment Unit. This is an area of high activity where consultant availability benefits both women attending and staff working in this area. The Consultant of the Week also takes part in incident reviews, attends the Term Admissions meeting on a Thursday 08.15-09.00 hours, and reviews pregnant women admitted to LUHFT for non-obstetric reasons.
Other clinical commitments will be cancelled during this week The successful candidate will also participate in the Antenatal Weekend Consultant rota providing separate cover on a Saturday and Sunday between 9am 12pm, which involves reviewing all antenatal women and selected high risk postnatal women admitted to maternity base and providing flexible escalation support only, to the Maternity Assessment Unit depending on the safety needs of the servic

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