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Specialty Doctor in Burns and Plastic Surgery
| Posting date: | 09 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £59,175 - £95,400 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 November 2024 |
| Location: | Prescot, L35 5DR |
| Company: | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6564922/409-6564922 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
This post is for a permanent Specialty Doctor inBurns and Plastic Surgery with a skin cancer and general surgery interest and a peripheral site commitment alongside one of the Consultant team. This is a whole time 11.75 session per week post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated surgeon to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
Applicants are required to hold Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (UK or equivalent qualifications), to be fully registered with the General Medical Council. In addition, applicants should have completed at least 4 years full time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part time basis or flexible basis) at least 2 of which will be in a specialty training programme in burns and plastic surgery at registrar level.
Interview Date to be confirmed
The principal purpose of the post is to provide a skin cancer and general plastic surgical service to the local population within the Merseyside and West Lancashire Region, North Wales and the Isle of Man.
The Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit is based at Whiston Hospital. The unit has its own dedicated burns, plastic surgery, laser suite, day case theatres and dressing clinics across the Whiston and St Helens Hospitals sites with outpatient clinics held on the Southport and Ormskirk hospital sites. Consultants have access to 28 plastic surgery inpatient and daycase beds plus 4 trauma beds on the plastic surgery ward 3A and 12 beds on the burn ward 4D.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.
The Trust’s vision is to provide 5 Star Patient Care.
Every single member of staff plays a huge part in this, no matter what your role, you will make a difference and support the delivery of this vision.
It is vital to our ongoing success that we all share the same aspiration, the same focus, and provide the same high standards right across the organisation and we can do this by focussing on 5 key areas.
· CARE that is consistently high quality, compassionate, and provides the best possible experience for our patients and their families.
· SAFETY that is of the highest standards, where staff feel empowered to further improve services and reduce the risk of harm.
· PATHWAYS that reduce variations in care to improve outcomes, whilst respecting the individual needs of patients.
· SYSTEMS that are efficient, user-friendly, and reliable. Drawing upon best practice to ensure our processes support the needs of our patients.
· COMMUNICATION that is open and inclusive. Always showing patients, their families and our colleagues, the dignity and respect we would wish for ourselves.
This full time Specialty Doctor job plan consists of 11.75 PA’s plus travel expenses. SPA time for full-time Specialty Doctors is 1 session per week for professional activity to support revalidation, personal appraisal, personal job planning, mandatory training, participation in departmental and governance meetings.
SPA activity must be relevant to the Trust and Individual’s needs, and must be agreed at the job planning session in line with the Trust’s Medical Workforce (Non-Training) Job Planning Version 1.6 Policy.
Development and Support
Secretarial support, dedicated office space with a desk and personal computer will be provided for the post holder. The successful candidate will be appointed a mentor. The substantive post holder will be expected to act as clinical/educational supervisor for one or more trainees. The trainees will usually be at FY2, ST1 or ST2 level.
It is a requirement of the post that post-holders comply with Trust policies and procedures, have (and maintain) GMC registration / licensing and participate in a formal CPD programme.
The Trust supports the requirements for Continuing Medical Education as laid down by the Royal College of Surgeons and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.
The post-holder must also participate in regular medical audit and in annual appraisal and job planning with the Clinical Director or one of the other qualified appraisers within the Trust.
The post holder will have access to the trust mentoring scheme and this has been developed in line with the NHS North West Mentoring Scheme network. Newly qualified consultants will have access to mentoring from existing senior clinicians across the hospital.
This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Oct 2024
This post is for a permanent Specialty Doctor inBurns and Plastic Surgery with a skin cancer and general surgery interest and a peripheral site commitment alongside one of the Consultant team. This is a whole time 11.75 session per week post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated surgeon to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
Applicants are required to hold Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (UK or equivalent qualifications), to be fully registered with the General Medical Council. In addition, applicants should have completed at least 4 years full time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part time basis or flexible basis) at least 2 of which will be in a specialty training programme in burns and plastic surgery at registrar level.
Interview Date to be confirmed
The principal purpose of the post is to provide a skin cancer and general plastic surgical service to the local population within the Merseyside and West Lancashire Region, North Wales and the Isle of Man.
The Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit is based at Whiston Hospital. The unit has its own dedicated burns, plastic surgery, laser suite, day case theatres and dressing clinics across the Whiston and St Helens Hospitals sites with outpatient clinics held on the Southport and Ormskirk hospital sites. Consultants have access to 28 plastic surgery inpatient and daycase beds plus 4 trauma beds on the plastic surgery ward 3A and 12 beds on the burn ward 4D.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.
The Trust’s vision is to provide 5 Star Patient Care.
Every single member of staff plays a huge part in this, no matter what your role, you will make a difference and support the delivery of this vision.
It is vital to our ongoing success that we all share the same aspiration, the same focus, and provide the same high standards right across the organisation and we can do this by focussing on 5 key areas.
· CARE that is consistently high quality, compassionate, and provides the best possible experience for our patients and their families.
· SAFETY that is of the highest standards, where staff feel empowered to further improve services and reduce the risk of harm.
· PATHWAYS that reduce variations in care to improve outcomes, whilst respecting the individual needs of patients.
· SYSTEMS that are efficient, user-friendly, and reliable. Drawing upon best practice to ensure our processes support the needs of our patients.
· COMMUNICATION that is open and inclusive. Always showing patients, their families and our colleagues, the dignity and respect we would wish for ourselves.
This full time Specialty Doctor job plan consists of 11.75 PA’s plus travel expenses. SPA time for full-time Specialty Doctors is 1 session per week for professional activity to support revalidation, personal appraisal, personal job planning, mandatory training, participation in departmental and governance meetings.
SPA activity must be relevant to the Trust and Individual’s needs, and must be agreed at the job planning session in line with the Trust’s Medical Workforce (Non-Training) Job Planning Version 1.6 Policy.
Development and Support
Secretarial support, dedicated office space with a desk and personal computer will be provided for the post holder. The successful candidate will be appointed a mentor. The substantive post holder will be expected to act as clinical/educational supervisor for one or more trainees. The trainees will usually be at FY2, ST1 or ST2 level.
It is a requirement of the post that post-holders comply with Trust policies and procedures, have (and maintain) GMC registration / licensing and participate in a formal CPD programme.
The Trust supports the requirements for Continuing Medical Education as laid down by the Royal College of Surgeons and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.
The post-holder must also participate in regular medical audit and in annual appraisal and job planning with the Clinical Director or one of the other qualified appraisers within the Trust.
The post holder will have access to the trust mentoring scheme and this has been developed in line with the NHS North West Mentoring Scheme network. Newly qualified consultants will have access to mentoring from existing senior clinicians across the hospital.
This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Oct 2024
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