Job summary Working Full Time : 10 Sessions Per Week/40 Hours 12 months fixed term.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time fixed term consultant in Plastic & Reconstruction surgery to join our expanding department in the beautiful city of Chesterfor a 12-month period.
This role is predominantly to aid with a surge in demand of skin cancer referrals as well as supporting general plastic services including trauma and on call services.
The successful candidate will be expected to have an interest in generalplastic surgery with a large proportion of skin cancer cases making up the bulk of elective work.
The post also involves some orthoplastic support for lower limb cases in Oswestry as well as locally.
Main duties of the job The appointee will be responsible for the care of patients referred by general practitioners, other hospital departments and will undertake clinics, ward rounds and theatre lists 'Programmed Activities' as appropriate.
The job plan will be a 10PA job plan which will be agreed in discussion between the successful candidate and the Lead Clinician in Plastic Surgery, with Planned Care operational management team this will be subject to Annual Review.
About us The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership.
Its services are provided from three locations: The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute bedsEllesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facilityTarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000.
This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery.
This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Job description Job responsibilities See Job Description for further details.Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check.
Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.
The cost of the DBS application is £ or £, this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service.
A small annual fee of £16per year applies.New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.Good luck with your application.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential FRSC (Plast) or qualification of an equivalent level Full GMC Registration Fellowship or equivalent experience in orthoplastic /lower limb trauma Desirable Other specialist fellowship Experience Essential Wide clinical experience in general Plastic surgery and independent management of skin cancer with interest in Breast, hand and Trauma Surgery Desirable Other sub interests such as breast, hand or skin are also desirable.