Locum Consultant Burns and Plastics Surgeon

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Burns and Plastic Surgeon for one year. It is a full-time job, including on-call covering burns. The Post holder will join a team of surgeons who provide the service in both the pediatric burns center at Birmingham Children Hospital and adult burn centres at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be based at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. It is full time 10PA job. The successful applicants would also be expected to participate in a 1:7 on-call rota covering both the pediatric burns center Birmingham Children Hospital and the adult burns center at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

The appointee will join the burn surgery team and will have the opportunity to develop an interest in an area of general plastic surgery and /or laser therapy, along with their commitment to the burns service. It would be expected that the major responsibilities of the posts are to the burns service (paediatric and adult). These posts would be suitable for candidates who have completed higher surgical training who have a more specialist interest in the management of burns.

An honorary contract will be sought for the successful candidates, to allow regular sessions to be worked in the Adult Burn Centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

There is a regular teaching and audit commitment to the Specialist Trainees on the West Midlands Rotation and the new appointee will be expected to participate in the training of the SpR and junior trainees.

The appointee would be expected to take an active interest in conducting research as well as presenting and publishing relevant clinical findings and research results.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full job description and person spec details can be found in the attached documents.