Locally Employed Doctor - Sexual Health and Reproductive Sexual Health

Applications are invited for the post of Junior Specialist Doctor in Sexual and Reproductive Health.

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.

Main duties of the job

The Department runs clinical sessions Monday to Thursday 0900-1900, Friday 09.00 - 17.00 and Saturday 10.00 - 17.00.

The post-holder will be one of the doctors working in GU medicine and integrated sexual health clinics based at Whittall Street Clinic in Birmingham City Centre, and various satellite clinics.

The post is full-time (40 hours), with no on call. The post-holder is expected to undertake approximately 36 hours of clinical sessions per week. This includes Sexual Health and Reproductive Sexual Health clinics and may include procedure clinics, depending on the skillset of the appointed candidate. The role also includes evening clinical sessions during the weekdays until 19.00. The rest of time will be devoted to management of patient results, mandatory training, CPD, teaching, and audit.

The Doctor will be supervised by a Sexual Health Consultant and will also be responsible to the Clinical Service Leads.

The post-holder is expected to do evening sexual health clinics (until 19.00). The service also runs Saturday clinics at Whittall Street Clinic and the successful candidate is expected to participate in the Saturday rota on a pro-rota basis. A day off in lieu will be given.

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.