Human Resources Directorate
NHS Tayside
Ninewells Hospital
Level 9
DUNDEE DD1 9SY
Telephone Number (01382) 660111
Fax Numbers (01382) 632098
www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk
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Date / Date as PostmarkYour Ref
Our Ref / AR/08/15
Enquiries to / Mrs Anne Rice
Extension / 33462
Direct Line / 01382 660111 ext 33462
Email /
Dear Doctor
POST OF CLINICAL FELLOW IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE (STR EQUIVALENT)
Further to your enquiry regarding the above post, I am now pleased to enclose an information and application pack.
Your application should be submitted to this department via the following e-mail address or sent by post to the above address. Please submit the following documents when submitting your application.
Your completed Immigration Status Form and a photocopy of your passport/current immigration status documents – NB British and EEA Nationals must also enclose a photocopy of their passport to verify nationality
1 copy of your CV, including the names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers of 3 referees, including your current or most recent employer.
Your completed Declaration Statement in respect of Fitness to Practice and Criminal Convictions
Please be aware that failure to enclose documentation confirming your current immigration status will result in your application being rejected
Please quote Reference Number AR0815 when submitting your application (your CV is your application, you do not need to complete the NHS Application Form o the SHOW Website)
As an Equal Opportunities Employer, it is NHS Tayside’s policy to ensure that all applicants are given the same consideration in relation to job selection, promotion and treatment. In this connection, I enclose an Equal Opportunities Form which you should be returned with your application. This information is for statistical purposes only and will be kept in strict confidence.
The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 24 April 2015. Owing to the number of applications received and to make the best use of resources, we are unable to acknowledge receipt of applications or to advise all candidates of the outcome of their application. If you have not heard from us within 6 weeks of the closing date you may assume that, on this occasion, your application has been unsuccessful.
Yours faithfully
Anne Rice
Employment Services Adviser
Encs
NHS TAYSIDE
CLINICAL FELLOW (STR EQUIVALENT) IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
Applications are invited for this full time Clinical Fellow post, based at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. The appointee will join a team of four consultants with specialist interests in reproductive medicine to provide general infertility and assisted conception services Tayside-wide. Our obstetric and gynaecology department has 4,500 deliveries annually. Ninewells hospital is a teaching hospital and the appointee will be expected to be involved in both undergraduate and post-graduate training. This is a new post, created from additional Scottish Government funding in order to reduce NHS waiting times for assisted conception treatment to less than one year. The post is fixed term for one year from 1st April 2015.
The Assisted Conception Unit provides approximately 600 treatment cycles of IVF/ICSI per year and has an internationally leading research programme. There has been substantial investment to provide state of the art accommodation for Assisted Conception Services completed in 2013. Preference will be given to those who have completed MRCOG part II and have completed their gynaecology intermediate scanning. There will be opportunities to practice specialist areas of activity in Reproductive Medicine or research according to the successful candidate’s interests and/or expertise and the existing interests within the department.
Informal enquiries or to arrange a visit, please contact either:
Dr Suresh Kini, Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Clinical Lead for Assisted Conception 01382 660111, bleep 4146, email
Dr Nikhil Patravali Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology 01382 660111, bleep 5415, email
For further information on how to apply please visit www.medicaljobs.scot.nhs.uk Applications in the form of 1 current CV, including the names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers of 3 referees, 1 being a current employer, should be submitted to quoting reference number AR0815. You must include the supplementary forms available via the www.medicaljobs.scot.nhs.uk website.
You do not have to complete the NHS Tayside Application Form your CV is your application.
Closing date for applications is 24 April 2015.
NHS Tayside
Women & Reproductive Health Clinical Team
JOB DESCRIPTION
Introduction
This is a whole-time (10 programmed activities per week), Clinical Fellow post, based at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in Dundee. The appointee will join a team of four consultants with specialist interests in reproductive medicine to provide general infertility and assisted conception services Tayside-wide.
Job Summary
The post holder will have direct clinical involvement in general infertility and assisted conception treatment. He/she must be medically qualified and is expected to hold the MRCOG part I and have completed their gynaecology intermediate scanning (or equivalent). There will clinical commitments to infertility services across Tayside, including the assisted conception unit at Ninewells hospital with opportunities to practice specialist areas of activity in Reproductive Medicine or research according to the successful candidate’s interests and/or expertise and the existing interests within the department. He/she will be expected to directly supervise junior staff and to participate in the teaching of undergraduates. He/she will be expected to help set and maintain standards and undertake administrative tasks that arise from the post.
Preference will be given to those who have completed MRCOG part II and have completed gynaecology intermediate scanning training.
Women and Reproductive Health Clinical Team
This team forms part of the Women and Child Health Clinical Group that was reconfigured as part of the management structure reorganisation when two acute hospitals trusts became Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust in April 1999. The Clinical Group is made up of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Child Health. The Associate Medical Director is Dr David Johnston, Consultant Paediatrician. The Clinical Service Manager is Dawn Sturrock. The Clinical Director for Women & Reproductive Health is Dr Tony Nicoll.
Obstetrics
The Maternity Services provide a comprehensive service to Tayside (population 375,000) and NE Fife, and the team manages all midwifery staff in the two hospitals and community. Apart from the Consultant Led Unit in Dundee there is an alongside Midwife Led Unit in Ninewells Hospital and three Midwife Led Community Maternity Units (CMUs), one each in Arbroath, Montrose and Perth.
A team of eight Consultants provide a specialist feto-maternal medical service for high risk pregnancies.
Gynaecology
There are well established services providing, in addition to General Gynaecology for Tayside,
Special Interests including:
· Gynaecological Oncology
· Minimal Access Surgery
· Urogynaecology
· Emergency Gynaecology
· Termination of Pregnancy
· Community Gynaecology and Family Planning (in conjunction with the Primary Health Care
· Trust
· Ninewells is one of the three UK centres for the Registration and Follow up of Trophoblastic
Disease
· Reproductive Medicine
There is a comprehensive infertility service across service across Tayside, with the Assisted Conception Unit based at Ninewells Hospital. This provides approximately 600 treatment cycles of IVF/ICSI per year and has an internationally leading research programme. The unit has undergone a recent £5 million rebuilt to establish state of the art facilities. The Unit has input from four Consultants.
Environment
Dundee is the fourth largest city in Scotland (population 170,000) and as the administrative capital for Tayside region it is undergoing a remarkable cultural and structural resurgence. The city is situated in the magnificent surroundings on the north bank of the Tay estuary and houses two Universities, the Medical School being a very important part of The University of Dundee. To the north are the glens and mountains of Angus and sixty miles to the south is the Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh.
Perth (population 42,000), known as "The Fair City" is located at the very heart of Scotland. Famous for its salmon fishing in the River Tay, Perth's status as former capital of Scotland has given it a wealth of historical associations and a centuries-old tradition of welcoming visitors. Perth is well served by motorway and main trunk roads giving excellent communications throughout Tayside and with the rest of Scotland. It lies 22 miles to the west of Dundee.
The Job Plan
The proposed sessional commitments are detailed in Appendix 1.
The appointed postholder will be required to undertake any duties within the area served, either as a routine commitment or due to unforeseen circumstances in agreement with the Clinical Group.
Key Tasks of Posts
Ø Clinical Practice
Ø Specialist Advice
Ø Teaching/Training
Ø Research
Ø Clinical Governance
Ø Administration
Principal Responsibilities
1. / Work in the Reproductive Medicine Team to provide comprehensive infertility service, including assisted conception across Tayside.2. / Supervise, instruct and train medical staff assigned to them.
3. / Contribute to postgraduate and continuing medical education activity.
4. / Contribute, if appropriate, to the training of nurses, midwives, paramedical, scientific, and technical staff.
5. / Support undergraduate teaching in co-operation with the academic department.
6. / Contribute towards research projects within the hospital
7. / Participate in developing a satisfactory and consistent quality of clinical services by establishing appropriate systems, agreeing standards and ensuring standards are met. Participate in audit.
8. / Contribute towards the administration of the service.
Present Medical Staffing of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tayside
NINEWELLS HOSPITAL
Name / Special InterestDr Pauline Lynch, Consultant
Clinical Lead Maternity
Lead Clinician for Labour Suite
/ Peri-natal Medicine
Dr Wendy McMullen, Consultant / Gynaecology Oncology
Dr Clare McKenzie, Consultant
Assistant Postgraduate Dean / Gynaecology Oncology
Professor Gary Mires
Honorary Consultant / Peri-natal Medicine
Undergraduate Teaching Dean
Dr Patrick Chien, Consultant
Clinical Director of the Scottish Hydatidiform Mole Follow-up Service / Minimally Access Surgery
Dr Tony Nicoll, Consultant
Clinical Director Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Lead Clinician for Obstetric Ultrasound / Obstetric and Gynaecology Ultrasound
Peri-natal Medicine
Dr Refaat Youssef, Consultant / Minimally Access Surgery
Dr Vanessa Kay, Consultant / Reproductive Medicine
Undergraduate Teaching
Dr Suresh Kini, Consultant
Clinical Lead (Assisted Conception) / Reproductive Medicine
Dr Sarah Martins Da Silva, Consultant
Academic lead / Reproductive Medicine
Dr Nikhil Patravali, Consultant / Reproductive Medicine
Dr Yeshi Bhushan Consultant / Emergency gynaecology
Termination of Pregnancy
Dr Gamal Sayed Consultant / Obstetrics
Emergency Gynaecology
Dr Binita Pande, Consultant / Maternal Medicine
Early Pregnancy Loss
Dr Roselyn Mudenha, Consultant / Obstetrics
Emergency Gynaecology
Dr Vimala Nellore, Consultant (PRI & Ninewells) / Obstetrics
Emergency Gynaecology
Dr Kalpana Ragupathy, Consultant / Gynaecology Oncology
Dr Joanne Ellison, Consultant / Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Perinatal Medicine
Ultrasound
Dr Jan Leslie, Associate Specialist / Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ultrasound
Dr Joan McCulloch, Staff Grade / Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ultrasound
Dr Keith Suttie, Speciality Doctor / Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Middle Grade Staff*
9 SpR's / ST (Registrars)
4 ST1/2 (Registrars)
4 GP ST
2 FY2/ 2 FY1 / * The composition of middle grade staff is likely to change in the future with the reduction in SpR numbers and the rota will reflect those changes.
Facilities in Ninewells
Labour Suite (~4000deliveries per annum) / • 8 delivery rooms
• 6 beds in an observation area
• 1 High dependency room
• Bereavement Suite
• I en-suite Maternity theatre staffed 24 hours per day
• I ancillary room for use as an emergency theatre
• 24 hour resident anaesthetic cover
Alongside Midwife-Led Unit / • 4 delivery rooms
• 2 pool rooms
• 4 postnatal beds
Inpatient Obstetrics / 40 beds
Elective Caesarean theatre / From February 2014
Maternity Triage / 2 beds, staffed 24 hours per day
Maternity Day Assessment
Unit / 4 beds, staffed Monday to Friday, 9-5
Outpatient Obstetrics / Dedicated Antenatal Clinic
Early Pregnancy
Assessment Unit / Unit staffed by midwives, Monday to Friday, 9-5.Adjacent to the Gynaecology Assessment Unit
Ultrasound Department / Specialised Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound Department.
Consultant led, supported by Associate Specialists, Staff Grade Doctors and Midwife Sonographers
Gynaecology Assessment unit / Emergency Gynaecology triage.
Nurse led early pregnancy counselling clinic
8 bedded ward staffed Monday -Friday, 8am to 5pm or 8pm.
Specialised Unit for the care of women undergoing termination of pregnancy and completion of early pregnancy loss procedures
Inpatient Gynaecology / 20 beds plus one assessment bed for Gynaecological Emergencies
Day case Gynaecology / Shared use (2 sessions per week) of a dedicated Day Surgery Unit
Outpatient Gynaecology / Shared use of Outpatient Facilities.
Colposcopy and Hysteroscopy facilities available
(Subject of major redesign project)
Gynaecology Theatre / Dedicated Gynaecology Theatre staffed Monday-Friday 9-5
Assisted Conception Unit / Specialised Unit led by Four Consultants with a Special Interest in Reproductive Medicine
Outreach Obstetrics & Gynaecology / • CMU Arbroath – Midwife Antenatal Clinics
- Consultant Outreach Clinic
- ~180 Births
CMU Montrose – Midwife Antenatal Clinics
- Consultant Outreach Clinic
- ~220 Births
• Gynaecology Clinics in Arbroath and Montrose
Paediatric Facilities / Neonatal Unit has 21 cots. (3 Intensive Care, 6 High Dependency, 8 Special Care and 4 Transitional)
PERTH ROYAL INFIRMARY
Dr Adam Gordon, Consultant
Training Programme Director / Peri-natal Medicine
Benign Gynaecology
Ultrasound
Dr Zbigniew Tkacz, Consultant / Urogynaecology
Dr Julie Christie Consultant
Clinical Lead Gynaecology
RCOG College Tutor / Urogynaecology
Dr Vaishnavy Laxman Consultant / Urogynaecology
Dr Magdi El-Miligy, Associate Specialist / Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Middle Grade Staff
1 SpR / ST (Registrars)
2 GP ST
2 FY2
Facilities in Perth Royal Infirmary
CMU Perth / • Consultant Clinic• Midwife Antenatal Clinics
• Maternity Day Assessment Unit
• ~280 Births
Outpatients: Antenatal
and Gynaecology / There is a stand alone dedicated Women's Clinic with Hysteroscopy and Urodynamic Facilities, Infertility and Oncology.
Inpatient Gynaecology / 19 beds utilised for inpatient and day case gynaecology and termination of pregnancy
Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit / Incorporated in Gynaecology Inpatient area
Staffed by midwives
Gynaecology Theatre / Dedicated Gynaecology Theatre
Ultrasound Department / Dedicated Obstetric and Gynaecological Ultrasound Department staffed by Consultant and Staff Grade Sessions
Outreach Gynaecology / Gynaecology Clinics held in Auchterarder, Blairgowrie, Crieff and Pitlochry.
Conditions of Service