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Plastic Surgery Specialist Grade Doctor

Job details
Posting date: 28 October 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £100,870 - £111,441 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 27 November 2025
Location: North Shields, NE29 8NH
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 7553551/319-7553551HD

Summary

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


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 consultant. 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.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.

This job entails providing support to skin cancer services which includes participating in outpatient clinics, and theatre sessions either working with the Consultant, or working independently.

Providing support to breast reconstruction services and participate in microvascular reconstruction to breast or limbs. Participation in MDT meetings, ward rounds and post-operative flap monitoring. Provide support and education to other members of the team, including the specialist nursing team, for sooth running of the service. Also, to participate in academic activities of the department such as audits, research projects maintaining morbidity and mortality record.

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

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


This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Nov 2025