Clinical Fellow- Plastic Surgery | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,923 - £63,152 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 June 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester, M20 4BX |
| Company: | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6287349/413-MD-C2024-23700 |
Summary
The post will offer excellent clinical experience in Plastic Surgery with a focus on surgical oncology including microsurgical reconstruction, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team consisting of surgical specialties, medical and clinical oncology. The post could suit those wishing to gain specialist Plastic Surgery experience prior to embarking on a training programme. The post provides excellent opportunities to build surgical skills and there is good scope for audit and publications.
The overall clinical workload will involve management of inpatients, attendance at theatre and outpatient sessions along with presenting at MDTs.
This post is designed to support specialised oncologic plastic surgery and reconstruction at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust which is a tertiary referral centre for the treatment of cancer. It will provide the appointee with excellent opportunities to further operative experience and clinical management of oncological surgery patients.
The job is a full time post with potential to join the on-call rota at the middle-grade level. This is currently banded at 40% and will be reviewed with the successful applicant on appointment.
The appointee will be expected to be involved in all areas of oncologic plastic surgery and microsurgical reconstruction, providing cover where necessary. The appointee will work closely with the 4 Consultants, the Specialty Doctor and the Registrars who rotate through the unit. They will get involve with all aspects of oncological plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery and microsurgery.
The successful candidate will have regular outpatient clinics and will be expected to attend both local and general anaesthetic lists, where there will be excellent opportunities to perform and learn newsurgical procedures under varying levels of supervision dependent upon the experience of the appointee
Specific Duties will include:
Participation in the primary care of patients admitted to The Christie
To oversee the daily care of inpatients, as an integral part of the plastics team
Attendance at outpatient clinics and theatre lists as required by the supervising consultant.
Management of dedicated single stream clinics with new and follow-up patients running alongside a consultant’s clinic
Monitoring of plastic surgery flaps
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
DUTIESANDRESPONSIBILITIES
This will offer excellent clinical experience in Plastic surgery, working closely with multi-disciplinaryteamsconsistingofotheronco-surgicalspecialities,medical andclinicaloncology.
The overall clinical workload will involve management of in-patients, attendance at theatre andoutpatientsessions,MDTsandworkingcloselywiththeclinicalnursespecialistswithinthedepartment.
TheappointeewillbebasedatTheChristieandwillprovideseniorinput totheConsultants–
•MrD.Mowatt-ConsultantPlasticandReconstructive Surgeon
•MrD.Oudit-ConsultantPlasticandReconstructiveSurgeon/ClinicalLead
•MrD.Kosutic -ConsultantPlasticandReconstructiveSurgeon
isprovidedbytheDepartment of Anaesthesia at theChristie bythe Clinical Director Dr PawelAryszynski supported via a SLA for anaesthesia with The University Hospital South Manchester.AllConsultant Surgeons and Anaesthetists with sessional commitments to theChristie Hospital aremembersoftheDirectorate ofSurgeryandAnaesthetics inthe divisionofCancerCentreServices.
Thedepartment of plastic surgeryat TheChristiehas effectivelytwoseparateroles; oneis in thearea of the management of skin and soft tissue tumours that need removal and secondly, the teamprovidesareconstructiveservicefortheaforementionedgroupandforpatientsrequiringreconstruction following breast, colorectal, gynaecological and urological surgery.The team alsointegrateswiththe nationally fundedNF1 andNF2 services.
Thesuccessfulcandidate wouldalsogainconsiderableexperience andtraininginmicrosurgery.
There is a monthly plastic surgery clinical meeting, a regular audit programme and a teaching andeducationprogrammethattheappointeewouldbeactivelyinvolvedin.TheSpecialistNursePractitionerruns asuturingcourse for bothundergraduate andpostgraduatestudents.
ContinuingProfessionalDevelopment
The Trust supports the requirements for continuing professional development (CPD) as laid down bythe GMC and surgical colleges and is committed to providing time and financial support for theseactivities.
RolePlanning
Week1
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
AM
Clinic
Theatre
Clinic
Clinic
Theatre
PM
Clinic
Theatre
Admin
MDT
Clinic/Study
PERSONSPECIFICATION
Essentialforthepost
Desirableforthepost
METHOD OFASSESSMENT
1.ATTAINMENTSEducational
Holds or have held a NationalTrainingNumberinPlastic
surgery
CE
Qualifications
FRCS(plast)orequivalent
CE
Professional
Fullyregisteredmedical
To showa broadrangeof
CE
Qualifications
practitioner
publicationandresearch
activity
Research /Publications
2.TRAINING
Clinical training andexperience equivalent to thatrequired for gaining UK CCT inPlasticSurgery
Previous exposure toMicrosurgery
UptodateALS
CE
3.EXPERIENCEJobSpecific
Possession of a genuineinterest in Plastic OncologyandReconstruction
Ability to take responsibilityfor clinical care of patients inasupervised basis
CE
Management/Audit
Evidenceofselfaudit
Abilitytoaudit andcriticallyappraiseclinical
care delivery by amultidisciplinaryteam
AF/I
4.TEACHING
Interest in postgraduate andundergraduateteaching
Interest in teaching nonmedicalstaff
AF/I
5.PERSONALSKILLS
Abilitytoworkin a
multiprofessionalteam
AF/I
6.CIRCUMSTANCESDomicile
Within 30 minutes of thehospital byroad
R
7.PHYSICAL
Satisfactorymedicalclearance
bytheTrust
R
AbbreviationsforMethodsofAssessment:
AF–ApplicationForm
I – InterviewR–References
CE–CertificationEvidence
This advert closes on Friday 24 May 2024
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