Specialty Doctor in Breast Surgery

Overview

Job overview The Breast Surgery Department in Hull is the Breast Cancer Centre for the Humber and Yorkshire Coast Cancer Network.

The department is based in a modern purpose built unit at the Castle Hill Hospital (CHH) site and is one of the busiest in the country, diagnosing and treating over 500 new breast cancers per year. Within this unit all symptomatic and screening patients are assessed on a multidisciplinary basis. Incorporated within the unit, in addition to the outpatient facilities there are radiology facilities, a meeting room for multidisciplinary team working and office space. All in-patient facilities are based on the Castle Hill site.

Responsibilities

• As a Trust employee the post-holder will work in close cooperation with, and support, other clinical, medical, professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality health care to the Trust’s patients.
• The successful candidate will join a hardworking and forward thinking clinical team led by Mr Brendan Wooler. A wide range of opportunities will be provided to the successful candidate including outpatient clinic and theatre (inpatient and day case) working across a Monday – Friday weekly timetable, also including MDT participation.

Working for your organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.