# Senior Clinical Fellow in Burns > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-fellow-in-burns/64ee9310-61c6-4a99-88a8-2ff7cfa070e0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-fellow-in-burns/64ee9310-61c6-4a99-88a8-2ff7cfa070e0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Plastic Surgery - **Grade:** Senior - **Salary:** £45,715 - £69,976 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-04T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-18T15:20:42.555Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Chelsea_Westminster_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Plastic_Surgery_Burns/Plastic_Surgery_Burns-v8242140 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8242140?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The successful candidates will work within the Burns Unit and be involved in both elective and emergency work. This is an un-banded post and will cover weekday activities within the burns service. This will be the first time that a Burns Fellowship is offered at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the role will include working within a busy, dynamic, and friendly department and the fellow will be exposed to a wide variety of burns cases and their on -going reconstructive management. We encourage a learning environment, with regular MDT and departmental meetings. We will expect and encourage your involvement in audit, research and teaching and the successful candidate will present and publish such work as carried out in the Unit. This is not a training post and does not have specific Royal College or Postgraduate approval. This post would suit a senior plastics / burns trainee who would like to gain further experience in this specialist field. We would welcome applicants from the UK or overseas. FRCS (Plastics) is essential at time of starting fellowship ### Main duties of the job This role will involve the supervised management of burns and plastic surgery patients in both outpatient clinics and operating theatre settings, providing specialist assessment and treatment as part of the multidisciplinary team. The post holder will receive training in the use of laser therapy for the management of burn scars and will be responsible for presenting cases at weekly MDT meetings. Additional duties include conducting ward rounds to review inpatients and support their ongoing care, contributing to burns surgery research studies, and providing teaching, education, and support to members of the burns team. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Understanding of Clinical Governance and Audit. - Under and post graduate teaching experience **Desirable** - Training in management. - Understanding of business planning and commissioning ### Skills and knowledge **Essential** - Extensive knowledge and skills of relevant burn surgery and plastics - Meets good clinical / research practice standards **Desirable** - Experience at consultant level. - IT skills for word processing and data handling ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - Full GMC registration and entry on the specialist register via CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview), CESR or European Community Rights (EBOPRAS). - Eligible to work in UK - Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) - UK registered Medical Degree - Eligibility for Specialist Registration and continue to hold a licence to practise. - Experience in teaching medical trainees and other professionals **Desirable** - Burn Surgery Fellowship and Postgraduate Research (MD, MS or PhD) in burn related research - Success in Intercollegiate specialty examination or equivalent - Level 3 Safeguarding Children as per intercollegiate document. ## Documents - [recruitment pack (pdf, 2.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1313) - [burns fellow jd (pdf, 848.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10553200) - [policy statement (pdf, 144.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=891) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 85.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=890) - [staff benefits and wellbeing (pdf, 177.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1256) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.