Permanent Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Job overview

This role comes with an attractive recruitment premium attached! Please see below for more details.

We are delighted to invite candidates to apply to work with us in this dynamic and expanding Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department in a beautiful area of North Yorkshire. Here at York and Scarborough NHS Trust we serve the impressive historic city itself but also cover the original seaside resort of Scarborough and the spa town of Harrogate. History, nature and sporting delights - enough to satisfy the most enquiring of minds or athletically gifted!

We are looking to recruit to two vacancies - ideally full-time, substantive Consultant positions based at York, Scarborough and Bridlington Hospitals, although for the right candidate we are open to offers of part-time working. Recognising the importance of a balanced lifestyle, we will do our best to be as flexible as we can be.

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to provide expert activity in both skin cancer treatment and trauma or skin cancer treatment and orthognathic surgery. We will gladly discuss this with interested individuals, please get in touch!

Recruitment premium: We are excited to share that this role comes with a very attractive recruitment premium attached. For a minimum period of one year you will receive an additional 10% of your basic salary (applicable to job plans of a minimum of 6PAs and which include acute on call cover).

Main duties of the job

We offer excellent opportunities for career development, with sizeable skin, head and neck and orthognathic practices, working closely with other hospital teams and MDTs. The department and Trust both offer a welcoming and dynamic working environment, with opportunities to participate in teaching medical students from the Hull York Medical School (HYMS). Research opportunities are encouraged.

Our inclusive nature has brought close working not only between neighbouring OMFS units but also within other specialities. We are a cohesive group with excellent support from SAS grades and are one of the first units to train OMFS Surgical care Practitioners. Close links with department management help smooth areas of decision making and streamline care.

The department is within the Head & Neck and Plastics Directorate which sits within the Surgical Care Group and provides an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service to York and the whole of North Yorkshire (a population of around 850 000). Maxillofacial Surgeons currently work at York, Scarborough, Bridlington, Selby and Harrogate, with outpatient and day case surgery at the peripheral sites. Inpatient activity is at the York site where there is a well-established, dedicated Head and Neck ward. The department is well supported by Radiology, Pharmacy and Pathology and has close links with Orthodontics, Restorative Dentistry, ENT, Dermatology and Ophthalmology.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The candidate will contribute to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery on-call rota, covering a diverse area of North Yorkshire. This will be on a 1:6 basis (7-day pattern with Friday morning handover).

The Maxillofacial Surgery team carries out a large number of surgical procedures for Facial Cutaneous Malignancy each year. There is a well-established weekly Skin MDT based at the York site; this MDT has close links with the Head and Neck MDT.

Management of OMFS Head & Neck Cancer is run jointly with colleagues in Hull and Leeds with AHP, Restorative and CNS support provided locally.

There is an Orthognathic MDT run on a monthly basis with Orthodontics with 3D planning and excellent laboratory support.

The Head & Neck and Plastics Directorate consists of Maxillofacial Surgery, ENT, Orthodontics, Restorative Dentistry, Audiology and Plastics and has its own dedicated Outpatient setting and Outpatients reception team in York. There is a very supportive managerial team and good administrative and secretarial support.