Senior Clinical Fellow in Plastic Surgery

Job overview

Applications are invited for the above post to commence following pre- employment checks

Ideally suited to fully registered doctors seeking to extend their existing exposure in the speciality, there may be a requirement to participate in the on-call rota working alongside middle grade colleagues.

This is a full time post

Previous experience in Plastic Surgery is essential.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• Admission of new patients, including clerking.
• Day to day care of in-patients.
• Daily ward rounds in adult and children’s wards.
• Attendance at operating sessions.
• Attendance at outpatient clinics (depending on your Consultant attachment).

Administrative

• Clinical note keeping
• Discharge summaries
• Complete death certificates
• Complete patients’ accident forms

The unit treats the full range of general adult and paediatric plastic surgery conditions including patients with major and minor burns.  Microsurgical procedures are performed on elective and emergency patients.  Day case surgery under both local and general anaesthetic is carried out

Weekly teaching meetings – with Consultant input - are held. Morbidity and mortality audit is performed monthly and quarterly clinical governance meetings are held.

You will be expected to play a full part in departmental audit and clinical governance programs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:

• What we can offer
• Job Plan/On-call Requirements
• The Team