Consultant Breast Surgeon

Join to apply for the Consultant Breast Surgeon role at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care trust which provides hospital and community health services for Hackney, the City and surrounding communities. The Trust provides a full range of adult, older people’s and children’s services across medical and surgical specialties. The trust operates acute services from a single site: Homerton University Hospital. Based on an aggregation of ratings across all of the core services provided from the hospital, the hospital has been rated by Care Quality Commission as ‘Outstanding’. The hospital has almost 500 beds across 11 wards, a ten-bed intensive care unit and maternity, paediatric and neonatal wards. Community services are provided by staff across 75 partner sites in Hackney and the City of London. The hospital has three day-surgery theatres and six main operating theatres for general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, gynaecology, maxio-facial, urology, ENT, obesity, bariatrics and obstetrics.

The Trust has earned a reputation for the quality of training offered and is recognised as one of the top recruiters to high quality research studies in the UK with particular interest in neonatal, sexual health and respiratory medicine. We are recognised as innovators in embracing methods and systems that promise better and safer patient care. The team consists of 2 consultants, of which this post holder will be one. The consultants are supported by three Clinical Fellows. A Core Surgical Trainee also rotates through the team every 6 months. The team also includes an Advanced Nurse Practitioner who will work alongside two Breast Care Nurses and an Open Access Follow-up Nurse supporting patients within the breast pathway.

The appointee will be expected to perform a full-time surgical practice with an interest in breast oncoplastic surgery. The appointee will be a member of the breast multidisciplinary team and is expected to contribute to and practice according to the local, network and national clinical practice guidelines. There is no on-call commitment in the post. Homerton Healthcare has an active research environment. The breast unit is actively involved in multicenter trials. The appointee will be encouraged to engage with ongoing research work and identify and support new areas of opportunity.

Breast Surgery in Northeast London is evolving with both Barts Health NHS Trust and Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust planning long-term developments to the service over the next 5-10 years. It is expected that the post holder will have the opportunity to participate in this exciting transformation initiative and service development for patients in this part of London. In addition to service development, the appointee will be expected to take part in the routine management and administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of clinical departments and the supervision of junior medical staff. The appointee will also be expected to take an active part in multi-disciplinary audit. There is a monthly half day session set aside within the clinical directorate at the Homerton for Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance during which all elective clinical duties are suspended to ensure attendance. There is also an open-ended audit program for all breast cancer patients, continuously auditing and evaluating several parameters as proposed by the recent NICE guidelines on breast cancer audit.