Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon

Integrated Care System; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is seeking two full-time Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeons. Join a leading team focused on comprehensive breast care services, clinical trials, and teaching. Ideal candidates will have Oncoplastic surgical training and a commitment to high clinical standards.

Qualifications

• Must be trained in Oncoplastic Surgery and clinical governance.
• Required to engage in clinical trials and teaching responsibilities.
• Participation in continuing medical education and quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Conduct outpatient clinics and MDT meetings across sites.
• Perform independent Oncoplastic and reconstructive surgeries.
• Recruit patients for clinical trials and teach medical students.

Skills

Oncoplastic Surgery

Clinical Trials Management

Patient Care

Team Collaboration

Education

CCT in General Surgery or equivalent

GMC Registration Specialist Register

Oncoplastic Training / Fellowship

Successful Completion of CESR

Job description

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Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon

The closing date is 09 July 2025

We are excited to invite applications for Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeons within University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB).

The Trust are seeking two individuals; substantive full-time Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeons.

The current opportunity is for consultants to join the dedicated team based at Birmingham Womens Hospital, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals.

The UHB Breast Service is one of the largest in the UK, annually assessing approximately 12,000 patients, accounting for almost a quarter of UHB urgent 2WW referrals and diagnosing and treating in excess of 1,000 new breast cancers through the symptomatic and screening pathways.

The Breast Unit is currently situated at the Birmingham Womens hospital and Solihull Hospital, with some activity at Good Hope Hospital. In addition to outpatient facilities, the unit has imaging including digital mammography, Breast MRI capacity and vacuum assisted biopsy facilities together with the screening office for the South Birmingham Breast Screening Service.

The Breast MRI service is provided by Queen Elizabeth Birmingham Hospital (QEHB) and the sentinel lymph node mapping is undertaken in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, located in QEHB. Parallel oncology clinics are held with the oncologists specialising in breast cancer and breast clinical nurse specialists.

Main duties of the job

Several major Breast cancer clinical trials, led by members of the breast team, are run through the Birmingham Cancer Research Clinical Trials Unit and participation in clinical trials is a priority of the service.

Breast reconstruction is run as a combined service with the dedicated Oncoplastic Breast Surgeons and breast plastic surgical team. A full range of immediate and delayed reconstructive procedures are carried out. We are expanding out Oncoplastic Services footprint, so it is essential applicants are trained in Oncoplastic Surgery.

The Breast service also provides a regional service for breast sarcoma, particularly radiation induced angiosarcoma and primary angiosarcoma. This is an area which has developed over the past five years and is an expanding part of the practice and research.

The Cancer Centre provides a regional service for radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment and there is a palliative care team led by a dedicated Consultant.

Applicants are invited for a substantive post as a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon (across sites) and will join a multi-disciplinary team with the highest standards of clinical care.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

You will act as part of this multidisciplinary team to deliver breast case services for patients covered within UHB Breast services, participating in clinics, theatre, MDT and Advice and Guidance. Duties will include;

* Outpatient clinic sessions across sites

* Cross covering clinics for colleagues leave

* One to two Breast MDT meetings per week

* Theatre sessions including independent Oncoplastic and reconstructive work and joint operating with Plastics

* Ward rounds

* Recruiting to and being Principal Investigator for Clinical Trials

* Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate

* Clinical & Educational Supervisor duties

* Audit

There is a small on-call commitment associated with this post for cover of breast elective in-patients (cross-site) but breast surgery emergencies are managed under the care of General Surgery with input from the Breast Team.

The involvement in continuing medical education is an integral part of the advertised post and as such, you will be required to significantly increase the recruitment to clinical trials and practice evidence-based medicine. Within this role you will be required to participate in all aspects of clinical governance as developed by the Trust to monitor, maintain and develop the quality and effectiveness of care.

The Trust is committed to the development and maintenance of the highest clinical standards through individual appraisal. This will include the audit of personal and clinical practice as well as involvement in departmental and speciality reviews. It will also involve attention to continuing professional development and to meeting requirements for continuing medical education as required by the relevant Royal College. It will also involve the awareness of professional standards and the responsibility to undertake safe and ethical clinical practice and the importance of responding promptly to any circumstances, which may result in increased clinical risk or adverse outcome.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• *CCT in general surgery or equivalent.
• *GMC registration specialist register
• *Evidence of Oncoplastic Training / Fellowship
• *Successful completion of CESR
• *Submitted CESR application and/or expected to receive positive CESR outcome within 6 months of appointment.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust