This is an appointment to the HSE West & North West Region on a Public Only Consultants' Contract 2023 by the Health Service Executive. This post will support service provision within the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments at Galway University Hospital 18.5 hours and Portiuncula University Hospital 18.5 hours.
Registration as a specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners Maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the relevant specialty.
The post-holder will function as part of a multi-disciplinary team of Consultants, Midwives and HSCPs. The post-holder will participate in the obstetric on-call rota shared between GUH &PUH according to their work schedule which will be devised with their Clinical Director.
The post-holder will deliver 37 hours split between the 2 sites (alternate weeks) and will participate in the on-call rota at 0.5 level at each site. The services they will provide will be OPD, Inpatient, Day Ward, Ambulatory Gynaecology Services, theatre sessions and they will contribute to the TOP service in GUH and PUH.
It is expected that the post holder will participate in general Obstetrics and Gynaecology, including clinics, theatre, inpatients, day case, Ambulatory Gynaecology, Labour Ward and Termination of Pregnancy services. There will also be options to be involved in Colposcopy Services and other areas of special interest
The Maternity, Gynaecology and Neonatology Units at PUH and GUH have a close working arrangement. There is a referral pathway for high-risk women, including multiple pregnancy to GUH for delivery on the GUH site. In PUH there are 5 obstetricians/gynaecologists –1 with special interest in fetal maternal medicine and 1 with special interest uro-gynaecology and three are general obstetricians and gynaecologists. The Unit at GUH has consultants with sub-specialty training in fetal maternal medicine, fertility treatment, uro-gynaecology and gynae oncology. This joint appointment strengthens the close working between both sites and provides more sustained and safer maternity services into the future..