Clinical Fellow (ST1 / 2) in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

This is a great opportunity to join the growing and dynamic Obstetrics and Gynaecology team at North Bristol NHS Trust, and we are seeking a Junior Clinical Fellow to start ideally from February 2026. This post is initially fixed-term for 6 months.
This is a non-training post but the Clinical Fellows will get wide ranging clinical experience, supervised by consultant staff. This will include: Theatre lists, Early pregnancy clinic, Central Delivery Suite experience, Emergency Gynaecology, Out-patient clinics (general and specialist), Ante-natal clinics (general and specialist).
The post is funded by NBT for the post holder to participate in the ST1-2 rota to ensure compliance with junior doctors' hours., Learning Objectives/Specialist Interests
To further develop skills in the assessment of antenatal patients, normal and abnormal labour and postnatal care.
To develop skills in instrumental and operative delivery if choses
To gain experience in gynaecology - outpatients and theatre experience
Involvement in audit and quality improvement projects
Clinical Experience
This is a non-training post but the Clinical Fellows will get wide ranging clinical experience, supervised by consultant staff. This will include: Theatre lists, Early pregnancy clinic, Central Delivery Suite experience, Emergency Gynaecology, Out-patient clinics (general and specialist), Ante-natal clinics (general and specialist).
The post is funded by NBT for the post holder to participate in the ST1-2 rota to ensure compliance with junior doctors' hours.
Teaching
You will not be expected to take on any formal teaching responsibility. Help with informal teaching of ward based medical students is encouraged. If you have a particular interest in teaching, we will support you within the constraints of your timetable.

North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South West region, and one of the largest trusts in the country. Last year the Trust treated over 100,000 inpatients, over 350,000 outpatients, 90,000 emergency department patients and helped deliver over 6,000 babies. It employs more than 9,500 staff, has approximately 1,050 inpatient beds and income in excess of £540 million.
The Trust provides medical surgical, neonatal and maternity care for its local population of approximately a million people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The Trust also provides regional services in neurosciences, orthopaedics, pathology, plastic surgery and burns, renal medicine and transplant and urology and is the major trauma centre and thrombectomy centre for the Severn Network.

The department provides a full range of obstetric and gynaecological services. The maternity department is one of the largest in the country, with more than 6,000 deliveries per annum with a 15 bed Consultant led delivery suite, a co-located birth unit performing over 900 deliveries per year and a standalone birth centre at Cossham Hospital with 500 deliveries per year We have extensive maternal medicine services for specialist endocrine, epilepsy, haematology and renal clinics and run additional specialist antenatal clinics for women including substance misuse, mental health and blood borne viruses. We also have an active fetal medicine department and tertiary level 3 neonatal unit., If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
Please note that North Bristol NHS Trust does not reimburse travel expenses relating to interview attendance.
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North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT's workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.