Consultant in Plastic Surgery with Special Interest in Skin Cancer

Job overview

Plastic Surgery is a busy department with 8 Consultants with plans to expand further to deliver a truly 7-day consultant led service.

The department manages trauma from a large catchment, including patients from regional hospitals such as Hillingdon Hospital in Uxbridge and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, in Reading.

The elective workload includes skin cancer surgery, hand & wrist surgery, breast reconstruction (including Breast microsurgery), abdomino-perineal reconstruction and some aspects of congenital plastic surgery (e.g. polydactyly, syndactyly, pinnaplasty, skin lesions & hypospadias).

Members of the Plastic surgery team are involved in the following weekly/monthly MDTs:

• Skin cancer, Hand Surgery, Breast reconstruction, Diabetic foot reconstruction and Abdominal wall reconstruction.
• A multidisciplinary team for hand surgery meets monthly, with input from Radiologists and hand therapists.
• A multidisciplinary team meets weekly for local and specialist skin cancers on both sites, Frimley North and Frimley South with input from dermatology, oncology, head and neck, radiology, pathology, and ENT. Some of these MDTs are based at Wexham and others are cross site across the Frimley Trust and many are now conducted via TEAMS.

Plastic Surgery also supports the General Surgery team at Reading in their abdominal wall reconstruction work.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to deliver elective skin cancer surgery, including clinics, operating lists and attending the MDTs along with the three other skin cancer surgeons, dermatologists, oncologists and with clinical nurse specialists.

There is also the opportunity to get involved in the development of the one stop service in skin cancer, seeing and operating on 2 week wait patients at the same visit.   The elective work will include a general plastic surgery caseload.

The post holder will also help deliver a Plastic Urgent Care (PUC) clinic which sees open injuries and a trauma list.

The post holder will join the on-call rota (1:8) and provide emergency cover and ward rounds.

The ability to work flexibly, cohesively and in collaboration with the existing Consultants is a necessary requirement to the post.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full role requirements.

The successful candidate would slot into the proposed job plan (this may change according to availability of operating lists in particular)

This department runs a Consultant of the day on call with a view to achieve a consultant delivered service rather than consultant led.The appointed candidate would join the on-call rota of 1:8 with a fixed day on call every other week.

The appointment will be subject to the terms and conditions of the new Consultant contract.

The job plan will be made up of 10 programmed activities (PA). This includes the new on call system which sees the Consultant on-call deliver the following activity depending on whether it is a weekday or weekend.