Consultant Plastic Surgeon - Skin & Mohs Interest

Merseywestlancs; Knowsley; Remote; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

Unsocial hours payments

Job summary

The Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust invites applications for a substantive Consultant in Plastic Surgery with a Skin Cancer and Mohs Surgery interest. The post involves leading a dynamic, multidisciplinary unit based at Whiston Hospital and working within a broad regional service.

Applicants must hold GMC registration, MRCS/FRCS (Plast), and be on the Specialist Register or near CCT.

Qualifications

• Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (UK or equivalent qualifications) and full GMC registration.
• Be on the Specialist Register or due to obtain CCT within six months of interview date.

Responsibilities

• Run their clinical service and integrate with the department.
• Communicate effectively with general practitioners, managers and hospital committees.
• Contribute to the Trust's contractual obligations and business plans.
• Comply with appraisal, job planning and revalidation procedures.

Education

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

MRCS (UK) or equivalent medical qualification

FRCS (Plast) or equivalent

ATLS Provider Status

Member BAPRAS

Job description

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Consultant Plastic Surgeon - Skin & Mohs Interest

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Plastics Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent: No on-call Hours Full time - 11.5 sessions per week (Includes 1 Saturday theatre commitment per month) Job ref 409-S8075958

Site Whiston Hospital Town Prescot Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 11/12/2026

Job overview

The post is for a substantive Consultant in Plastic Surgery with a Skin Cancer and Mohs and Surgery interest.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated surgeon to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary care within the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery unit based at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. This is a whole-time post with a weekly peripheral site clinical commitment.

Applicants are required to hold Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (UK or equivalent qualifications), to be fully registered with the General Medical Council, and to be on the Specialist Register or due to obtain their CCT within six months of the date of interview.

Interviews will take place on Friday 11th December 2026.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will have a responsibility for the running of their clinical service, integrating this with the department as a whole and ensuring appropriate communication with general practitioners, managers, and hospital committees. The appointee will be responsible for contributing to the achievement of relevant aspects if the Trusts contractual obligations and business plans.

The appointee will be expected to ensure their clinical service is in accordance with the principles of Clinical Governance which must include appropriate clinical audit, clinical targets, key performance indicators (KPI’s), evidence-based practice, continued personal educational and professional development. The post holder will also be expected to comply with existing appraisal procedures, job planning and revalidation procedures.

Working for our organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Proposed Interview date: 11th December 2026

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• MRCS (UK) or equivalent medical qualification
• FRCS (Plast) or equivalent
• Valid Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Provider Status
• Member BAPRAS

Knowledge

• Evidence of achievement of competencies by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice including: o Good clinical care o Maintaining good medical practice o Good relationships and communication with patients o Good working relationships with colleagues o Good teaching and training o Professional behaviour and probity o Delivery of good acute clinical care
• Demonstrate skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues
• Clinical Knowledge & Expertise: Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems.
• Experience in the management of Mohs & skin cancer.
• Clinical Knowledge & Expertise: Demonstrates the necessary range, depth, and breadth of competencies suitable for a Skin Cancer post with an interest in Mohs surgery
• Clinical Knowledge & Expertise: In depth knowledge and experience in Mohs & skin cancer
• Research Skills: Demonstrates ability to undertake robust audit / research within team structure within the last 3 years.
• Teaching: Evidence of appropriate teaching experience within the last 3 years
• Fellowship in Mohs surgery
• Evidence of relevant research e.g. presentations, publications in peer reviewed journals within the last 3 years relevant to plastic surgery, Mohs and skin cancer surgery.
• Evidence of relevant academic achievements, e.g. degrees, awards, in the last 3 years.

Skills

• Communication Skills: Demonstrates clarity in written/spoken communication & capacity to adapt language as appropriate to the situation.
• Problem Solving & Decision Making: Capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems/make decisions
• Managing Others & Team Involvement: Capacity to work effectively with others & work in multi-professional teams
• Managing Others & Team Involvement: Able to supervise junior medical staff
• Empathy & Sensitivity: Capacity to take in others’ perspectives and treat others with understanding;
• Organisation & Planning: Capacity to manage/prioritise time/workload and information effectively.
• Organisation & Planning: Basic IT skills
• Vigilance & Situational Awareness: Capacity to monitor developing situations and anticipate issues
• Coping with Pressure: Capacity to operate under pressure. Demonstrates initiative & resilience to cope with changing circumstances

Other

• Professional Integrity: Capacity to take responsibility for own actions.
• Demonstrates respect for all.

Values

• We are kind
• We are open
• We are inclusive

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.

The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Disability Confident Leader Leader , we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact [e-mail]

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.

The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click here to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship.

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For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK.
Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account.
Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:

• Understand how to generate an eVisa share code

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.

Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.

If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

Flexible Working

We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:

• All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
• There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
• Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.

At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.

Working for Team MWL

Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.

You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.

Additional Information

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here .

An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name David Bell Job title Clinical Director Burns & Plastic Surgery Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0151 430 1262 Additional information

Tracey Walker, Directorate Manager

[e-mail] / 0151 426 1600