Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Applications are invited to apply for a substantive consultant post in Sexual and Reproductive Health.

UHB is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national, and international population. Our multiple sites, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic allow people to be treated as close to home as possible.

The sexual health service (branded as Umbrella) provides an integrated sexual health service to the entire population of Birmingham and Solihull. The main hub is based at the purpose-built Whittall Street Clinic in Birmingham and there are seven satellite clinics locations across Birmingham and Solihull. The service deals with approximately 100,000 patient episodes per annum.

This post provides an opportunity to join an established and proactive consultant team to respond to the needs of our growing service. Applicants must be either on, or eligible for entry on, the GMC specialist register for Community Sexual and Reproductive Health.

An additional 1 PA research session may be available for interested and suitable candidates.

Applicants must be on the GMC register and hold a licence to practise.

Shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to be scheduled to take place within 1 week / 2 weeks of the closing date

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be one of the consultants delivering the clinical service of integrated sexual health clinics based at Whittall Street Clinic, Birmingham City Centre.

The postholder must have recent experience and demonstrable ability to provide sexual and reproductive health services, have experience in teaching and clinical supervision of junior staff and experience in clinical governance.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Date posted

17 January 2023

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£88,364 to £119,133 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

304-EP-1069345

Job locations

Umbrella Sexual Health Services

Whittall Street GUM Clinic

Birmingham

West Midlands

B4 6DH


Job description

Job responsibilities

UHB is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national, and international population.

Our multiple sites, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic allow people to be treated as close to home as possible.

We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe.

We are a regional centre for cancer, bone marrow transplants, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis; thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe.

We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK.

We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. We are a designated a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK's only 20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC).

We have over 20,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing.

Details of the post

Umbrella Sexual Health provides clinical sessions Monday to Friday 09.00--19.00 and Saturday 10.00 -- 16.00.

The post is full-time with 10 PAs.

The consultants' working time will be to work within the opening hours of the service, including evening clinics. The details of which are negotiable with the successful candidate.

The balance of clinical versus supporting PAs is 8.0 PAs DCC and 2.0 SPA and is according to the National Terms and Conditions. The post holder will be involved in expanding our service provision to pharmacies and working with our community partners.

Details of the Department / Service

The Sexual Health Service provided by UHB is called Umbrella and provides an innovative, holistic and fully integrated sexual health service to the population of Birmingham and Solihull (combined population approximately 1.3 million).

Umbrella provides both clinical service delivery and health promotion. The clinical service includes both sexual health clinics operated directly by UHB, all of which are fully integrated to provide both STI testing and treatment, and provision of contraception, and provision of services in primary care by general medical practitioners and community pharmacists through a formal sub-contracting process.

The clinical service is operated as a hub-and-satellite model. The hub is the purpose-built Whittall Street Clinic in Birmingham City Centre. There are six satellite clinics and 1 community clinic.

Satellite clinics are located in:

*Boots, High Street, Birmingham City Centre

*Erdington

*Hawthorn House, Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green

*Northfield Community Partnership

*Boots, Solihull Town Centre (Boots, Mell Square)

*Croft Medical Centre, Chelmsley Wood

Community clinic is provided at:

*Birmingham LGBT centre

Umbrella clinics deal with approximately 100,000 patient visits per annum. In addition, approximately 29,000 persons return an STI/HIV self-sampling kit for testing in the UHB laboratories. These kits can be ordered on line by any resident of Birmingham or Solihull who is over the age of 16 years and can either be sent to them at home or for collection at an Umbrella clinic or participating pharmacy.

Training for the multi-disciplinary sexual health service staff and our community partners within Umbrella is considered central to providing high quality evidenced-based care. Umbrella has a dedicated training team to support provision of education for the different sexual health staff groups over multiple sites. The training team also run community partner training through the SHAPE (Sexual Health Awareness Promotion and Education) programme.

Umbrella, in partnership with the Rape and Sexual Violence Project (RSVP) and Birmingham LGBT, has developed improved support for survivors of sexual violence with the formation of the following services: Abuse Survivors Clinic (ASC), Young Person ASC (YP ASC) and SAFE project for commercial sex workers. There are clear referral pathways to and from adult and paediatric Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC) as well as comprehensive staff training on care of attendees who have experienced sexual violence.

The Trust's Communications Team leads on the Umbrella health awareness and promotion campaigns, material and shared information. Effective communication between providers and service users is essential to embed the vision of the service. Umbrella works closely with organisations who are delivering health promotion, education and advice to increase awareness for young people. These include schools, colleges and pupil referral units. A number of health promotion campaigns are run each year with support from our partners in the community to raise awareness of issues such as HIV or chlamydia testing, respect and consent, and to target key groups such as young people (including looked after children) and MSM.

Umbrella provides teaching to Birmingham University Medical School students on placement at UHB. During the one week sexual health placement, the medical students attend both sexual health and HIV clinics. Tutorials are delivered by consultants and specialist nurses. Additional student placements are provided as required for elective and student selected components of the course.

Within the department there are FY2s on rotation, Specialist Trainees in both GUM and SRH for whom educational and clinical supervision is provided which includes a dedicated teaching programme.

The department has an active clinical research and development (R&D) portfolio and programmes of service improvement and clinical audit.

The Umbrella research programme has three main themes based on evaluation of sexual health service delivery, treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and reducing inequality. The unit holds a number of NIHR grants and current activity includes randomised controlled trials investigating new treatments for HIV and bacterial vaginosis, mixed methods studies to identify how inequality in service delivery can be reduced, investigating the immune responses to gonorrhoea to inform the development of vaccines, and working with industry to develop new anti-viral treatments. The research team is supported by a research manager, research fellow, two research nurses and two health care assistants.

Job description

Job responsibilities

UHB is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national, and international population.

Our multiple sites, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic allow people to be treated as close to home as possible.

We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe.

We are a regional centre for cancer, bone marrow transplants, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis; thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe.

We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK.

We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. We are a designated a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK's only 20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC).

We have over 20,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing.

Details of the post

Umbrella Sexual Health provides clinical sessions Monday to Friday 09.00--19.00 and Saturday 10.00 -- 16.00.

The post is full-time with 10 PAs.

The consultants' working time will be to work within the opening hours of the service, including evening clinics. The details of which are negotiable with the successful candidate.

The balance of clinical versus supporting PAs is 8.0 PAs DCC and 2.0 SPA and is according to the National Terms and Conditions. The post holder will be involved in expanding our service provision to pharmacies and working with our community partners.

Details of the Department / Service

The Sexual Health Service provided by UHB is called Umbrella and provides an innovative, holistic and fully integrated sexual health service to the population of Birmingham and Solihull (combined population approximately 1.3 million).

Umbrella provides both clinical service delivery and health promotion. The clinical service includes both sexual health clinics operated directly by UHB, all of which are fully integrated to provide both STI testing and treatment, and provision of contraception, and provision of services in primary care by general medical practitioners and community pharmacists through a formal sub-contracting process.

The clinical service is operated as a hub-and-satellite model. The hub is the purpose-built Whittall Street Clinic in Birmingham City Centre. There are six satellite clinics and 1 community clinic.

Satellite clinics are located in:

*Boots, High Street, Birmingham City Centre

*Erdington

*Hawthorn House, Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green

*Northfield Community Partnership

*Boots, Solihull Town Centre (Boots, Mell Square)

*Croft Medical Centre, Chelmsley Wood

Community clinic is provided at:

*Birmingham LGBT centre

Umbrella clinics deal with approximately 100,000 patient visits per annum. In addition, approximately 29,000 persons return an STI/HIV self-sampling kit for testing in the UHB laboratories. These kits can be ordered on line by any resident of Birmingham or Solihull who is over the age of 16 years and can either be sent to them at home or for collection at an Umbrella clinic or participating pharmacy.

Training for the multi-disciplinary sexual health service staff and our community partners within Umbrella is considered central to providing high quality evidenced-based care. Umbrella has a dedicated training team to support provision of education for the different sexual health staff groups over multiple sites. The training team also run community partner training through the SHAPE (Sexual Health Awareness Promotion and Education) programme.

Umbrella, in partnership with the Rape and Sexual Violence Project (RSVP) and Birmingham LGBT, has developed improved support for survivors of sexual violence with the formation of the following services: Abuse Survivors Clinic (ASC), Young Person ASC (YP ASC) and SAFE project for commercial sex workers. There are clear referral pathways to and from adult and paediatric Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC) as well as comprehensive staff training on care of attendees who have experienced sexual violence.

The Trust's Communications Team leads on the Umbrella health awareness and promotion campaigns, material and shared information. Effective communication between providers and service users is essential to embed the vision of the service. Umbrella works closely with organisations who are delivering health promotion, education and advice to increase awareness for young people. These include schools, colleges and pupil referral units. A number of health promotion campaigns are run each year with support from our partners in the community to raise awareness of issues such as HIV or chlamydia testing, respect and consent, and to target key groups such as young people (including looked after children) and MSM.

Umbrella provides teaching to Birmingham University Medical School students on placement at UHB. During the one week sexual health placement, the medical students attend both sexual health and HIV clinics. Tutorials are delivered by consultants and specialist nurses. Additional student placements are provided as required for elective and student selected components of the course.

Within the department there are FY2s on rotation, Specialist Trainees in both GUM and SRH for whom educational and clinical supervision is provided which includes a dedicated teaching programme.

The department has an active clinical research and development (R&D) portfolio and programmes of service improvement and clinical audit.

The Umbrella research programme has three main themes based on evaluation of sexual health service delivery, treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and reducing inequality. The unit holds a number of NIHR grants and current activity includes randomised controlled trials investigating new treatments for HIV and bacterial vaginosis, mixed methods studies to identify how inequality in service delivery can be reduced, investigating the immune responses to gonorrhoea to inform the development of vaccines, and working with industry to develop new anti-viral treatments. The research team is supported by a research manager, research fellow, two research nurses and two health care assistants.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MFSRH
  • On GMC Specialist Register for CSRH or within 6 months.
  • LoC IUT and LoC SDI
  • Complex LARC removals requiring imaging
  • STIF Intermediate or Advanced
  • FRT or any other training qualification
  • Competence in education and training of doctors
  • Postgraduate and undergraduate teaching experience
  • Awareness of CSRH training curriculum
  • Delivery and facilitation of various FSRH courses e.g. DFSRH, Essentials
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MFSRH
  • On GMC Specialist Register for CSRH or within 6 months.
  • LoC IUT and LoC SDI
  • Complex LARC removals requiring imaging
  • STIF Intermediate or Advanced
  • FRT or any other training qualification
  • Competence in education and training of doctors
  • Postgraduate and undergraduate teaching experience
  • Awareness of CSRH training curriculum
  • Delivery and facilitation of various FSRH courses e.g. DFSRH, Essentials

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Umbrella Sexual Health Services

Whittall Street GUM Clinic

Birmingham

West Midlands

B4 6DH


Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Umbrella Sexual Health Services

Whittall Street GUM Clinic

Birmingham

West Midlands

B4 6DH


Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Service Lead

Meg Boothby

Meg.Boothby@uhb.nhs.uk

01212375720

Date posted

17 January 2023

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£88,364 to £119,133 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

304-EP-1069345

Job locations

Umbrella Sexual Health Services

Whittall Street GUM Clinic

Birmingham

West Midlands

B4 6DH


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