Senior Clinical Fellow in Plastic Surgery

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a Senior Clinical Fellow in Plastic Surgery for a full-time fixed-term appointment starting 1 October at Lister Hospital, Stevenage. The role involves working with a team of Plastic Surgery consultants, participating in the middle grade rota, and provides opportunities to develop skills in various subspecialties within Plastic Surgery. This position promises a chance to practice in both elective and trauma cases.

Responsibilities

• Initiation of necessary investigations of patients and referrals to relevant on-call specialists.
• Seeing patients in the Plastic Dressing Clinic.
• Operating with consultants on elective and trauma patients.
• Seeing patients on the ward and in outpatient settings.
• Independently carrying out minor operation lists.

Job description

Overview

Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow in Plastic Surgery. This is a fixed term appointment from 1 October and is based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. The post is full time and the post holder will be expected to participate on the middle grade rota. This is an excellent opportunity within the Plastic Surgery department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The appointee will join the Plastic Surgery team, working between 11 Plastic Surgery consultants. The on-call rota is non-resident on-call. Opportunities will be available for the appointee to develop skills in a number of subspecialist areas in Plastic Surgery.

Responsibilities

• Initiation of the necessary investigation of patients and the referral to the relevant on-call specialist team when indicated.
• Seeing patients in our Plastic Dressing Clinic.
• Operating with consultants on both elective and trauma patients.
• Seeing patients both on the ward and in outpatient settings.
• Independently carrying out minor operation list.

About East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

Our commitment to staff

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.