Consultant Plastic Surgeon - interest in Orthoplastic Surgery & Burns

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites applications from highly motivated clinicians to join the Burns and Lower Extremity Trauma teams. The role focuses on acute burns management, microsurgical reconstruction, and an interest in limb and burns reconstruction within a well-integrated NHS setting.

You will work within a multidisciplinary environment, contribute to service development, and strive to improve the patient experience while fulfilling on-call responsibilities as

Qualifications

• Trained in acute burns management and microsurgical reconstruction with an interest in limb and burns reconstruction.
• Skilled in working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex surgery.
• Commitment to service development and improving the patient experience.

Responsibilities

• Integrate into the burns and lower extremity trauma teams within the trust.
• Develop areas of practice and streamline the surgical journey in acute burns care and lower extremity trauma.
• Provide a reconstructive service for burns and lower extremity trauma and join the burns on-call rota (1:6).

Skills

Burn care

Microsurgery

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Service development

Job description

Clinical:o Integrate into the multi-disciplinary burns and lower extremity trauma teams within the trusto Develop areas of practice and streamline the surgical journey in acute burns care and lower extremity traumao Provide a reconstructive service for burns and lower extremity traumao Join the burns on-call rota (1:6)

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. We are seeking an individual trained in the provision of acute burns management and microsurgical reconstruction with an interest in limb and burns reconstruction. We anticipate the individual will have skills in working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex surgery, with a commitment to service development and improving the patient experience.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.