Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Specialist Doctor (on a full-time basis) based at North Tyneside General Hospital and supporting the delivery of our trust wide service.
Plastic Surgery is high throughput department having 3 full time and one part time consultants. We are looking to appoint another Specialist Grade Doctor. It provides services for skin cancer management, immediate and delayed breast reconstruction, hand surgery services, limb reconstruction, plastic surgery support to general surgeons for perineal wound reconstruction as well as complex abdominal wall reconstruction. We have plans to expand further by adding a MOHs service, sentinel lymph node biopsy as well as to establish lymphedema services. We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic person to provide support in all such activities especially skin cancer management and reconstruction.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to assisting all employees to achieve a work-life balance, regardless of their personal circumstances. Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time, will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with the Head of Service.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.
Skin Cancer and its management including pre op clinics, operative commitments and post operative care under supervision of a consultant.
Attending skin cancer MDT.
Participating in microvascular reconstruction and post operative flap monitoring.
Assisting consultants in complex tissue reconstructions.
Participating in monthly departmental teaching activities
Participating and conducting different audit and research projects
Participating in CPD events.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick upon Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Please see attached job description for further details on the requirements and main responsibilties for this role.
