Consultant post in the breast unit at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, a whole-time role with an oncoplastic focus within a team of four consultants and one associate specialist. The work centres on outpatient clinics, operating sessions, pre- and post-operative ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings. It is a one-stop screening and symptomatic service with no out-of-hours on-call commitment. Applicants must be on the GMC Specialist Register or due their CCT within six months of interview.
What the job involves
- Outpatient clinics covering symptomatic, screening and oncoplastic patients
- Operating sessions
- Pre- and post-operative ward rounds and clinical administration
- Multidisciplinary team meetings
- Daily rotational breast cover within the team, with out-of-hours post-operative complications handled by the team
- Supporting professional activities: audit, mandatory training, CPD, teaching and appraisal
- Research and activity serving the wider NHS, encouraged within SPA time
What’s required
Qualifications
- Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (UK) or equivalent
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- MRCP or equivalent medical qualification
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration
- On the Specialist Register or within six months of CCT at interview
- UK-trained: CCT, or within six months of award by interview
- Non-UK trained: evidence of equivalence to UK CCT on application
Experience
- Experience in breast oncology and plastics
Skills & knowledge
- Fellowship and/or advanced clinical experience in Level 2 oncoplastic techniques
- Expert clinical opinion on emergency and elective problems within the specialty
- Clinical training and experience to manage, supervise and give expert opinion on patients presenting to Rheumatology
- Advise on the efficient and smooth running of the specialist service
- Organise and manage patient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists
- Manage and lead a surgical team
Other
- Up to date and fit to practise safely
- Values: kind, open and inclusive
Nice to have
- MD/PhD or equivalent medical qualification
- Experience of supervising PRHOs and SHOs
- Formal supervision of medical students, F1, F2, ACCS and specialist trainees
- Evidence of relevant research, such as presentations or peer-reviewed publications
- Ability to teach clinical and operative skills up to SPR level
What’s offered
- 2.5 SPA sessions, reviewed annually at job planning
- Extra sessions covered beyond the 10 PA contract can be claimed
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
