Consultant Plastic Surgeon - interest in Orthoplastic Surgery

Freeman Hospital

Carthage (MO)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 173,000

Full time

36 hours ago

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Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Plastic Surgeon with an interest in orthoplastic surgery to join the team. The role involves multidisciplinary collaboration to advance microsurgical reconstruction, including limb and breast procedures, with on-call responsibilities and a strong emphasis on service development and patient experience.

You will work within a large NHS trust, contributing to teaching programs, mentoring trainees, and developing new technologies while

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

Integrate into multi-disciplinary teams across the trust.
Develop areas of practice, and streamline the surgical journey in orthoplastic trauma care.
Contribute microsurgical expertise to the oncoplastic breast reconstruction service.
Join the plastic surgery on-call rota.
Maintain a clinical activity log.
Actively engage in regional teaching programmes.
Mentor trainees and undergraduates interested in careers in plastic surgery.

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC Registration

Entry onto GMC Specialist Register

Microsurgical fellowship

Logbook evidence of major lower limb reconstruction

Higher Degree

Job description

Education, Qualifications And Specialist Skills

Essential criteria

Employer heading

Consultant Plastic Surgeon - interest in Orthoplastic Surgery

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

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 a motivated innovative individual trained in the provision of microsurgical reconstruction with an interest in limb and breast 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

Integrate into multi-disciplinary teams across the trust
Develop areas of practice, and streamline the surgical journey in orthoplastic trauma care
Contribute microsurgical expertise to the oncoplastic breast reconstruction service
Join the plastic surgery on-call rota

Working for our organisation

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 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

Administrative

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Essential criteria

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 major lower limb reconstruction

Desirable criteria

Higher Degree.
Special skills training in the specialty.
Consultant experience

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

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

Essential criteria

Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
An understanding of Clinical Governance.

Desirable criteria

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

Essential criteria

Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.

Desirable criteria

Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
Postgraduate qualification in medical education.

Research

Essential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

Higher degree.

Audit

Essential criteria

Evidence of participation in audit.

Desirable criteria

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

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed. Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

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Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download