Consultant Plastic Surgeon - interest in Orthoplastic Surgery & Burns

Newcastle Hospitals; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals invites applications for a Consultant Plastic Surgeon with a special interest in orthoplastic surgery and burns. The post involves integration into multidisciplinary burns and trauma teams, development of practice areas, and leadership of reconstructive services across the region.

The role requires microsurgical expertise, a track record in education and research, and a commitment to teaching, governance, and service development.

Qualifications

• Primary medical qualification and GMC registration.
• Experience in burns and lower limb reconstruction.
• Microsurgical fellowship.
• Higher degree and research activity.
• Ability to lead and manage projects within a specialist service.

Responsibilities

• Integrate into the multidisciplinary burns and lower extremity trauma teams.
• 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.
• Join the burns on-call rota (1:6).
• Maintain a clinical activity log.
• Support an academic portfolio and regional teaching; mentor trainees.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Teaching

Research awareness

Audit experience

Medical education

Governance understanding

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC Registration

Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from AAC)

Microsurgical fellowship

Logbook evidence of burns and major lower limb reconstruction

Higher Degree

Special skills training in the specialty

Job description

Consultant Plastic Surgeon - interest in Orthoplastic Surgery & Burns

The closing date is 03 November 2026

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.

Main duties of the job

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)

About us

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
• 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.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on Careers at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job responsibilities

Administrative: Maintain a clinical activity log.

Research:

The department will support an academic interest and the development of the academic portfolio of the department

Teaching: Actively engage in regional teaching programmes. Mentor trainees and undergraduates interested in careers in plastic surgery.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC Registration.
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• Microsurgical fellowship
• Logbook evidence of burns and major lower limb reconstruction
• Higher Degree.
• Special skills training in the specialty.

Clinical Experience

• Evidence of experience in the specialty.
• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.

Management and Administration Experience

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance.
• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
• Evidence of leadership / project management.
• Evidence of having implemented change.
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies.

Teaching

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education.

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Research/critical review of literature.
• Publications in the last five years.

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit.
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.

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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust