Clinical Fellow (ST1/2) in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Position: Junior Clinical Fellow
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Location: North Bristol NHS Trust
Start Date: Ideally from February 2026
Contract Type: Fixed-term for 6 months

This is a great opportunity to join the growing and dynamic Obstetrics and Gynaecology team at North Bristol NHS Trust. This post is initially fixed-term for 6 months.

This is a non-training post, but the Clinical Fellows will gain 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 chosen.
• 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, 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.

Please note that unfortunately, North Bristol NHS Trust is not able to offer relocation allowance/expenses for this role.