Consultant Breast Surgeon in Hereford

Wye Valley NHS Trust wishes to appoint a Substantive Consultant Breast Surgeon, to be based at the County Hospital, Hereford. If you’ve ever dreamt of a place which brings together the convenience of living in a city with the lifestyle associated with a home in a rural idyll, Herefordshire is the place for you. Herefordshire is ranked one of the safest counties to live in England.

The post is intended to be whole-time (10 PA’s), but applications would be considered from candidates wishing for personal or domestic reasons to work part-time and the programme modified accordingly. This post will not include any on call duties.

Main duties of the job

• Elective clinical commitments will include new patient Breast symptomatic clinic, a weekly Breast multidisciplinary meeting (which includes a video link to the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Breast Screening Service) and elective Breast Surgery/Clinics.
• Breast Oncoplasty training and experience are essential for this role.
• There is a purpose built Oncology unit, The Macmillan-Renton Unit, with an attached Radiotherapy wing.
• Breast outpatient clinics take place in dedicated Breast clinic rooms, which are equipped with ultrasound machines.
• One stop Breast assessment outpatient clinics are run by three surgeons (including this post), with assistance from Breast Radiologists.
• The Breast reconstructive surgery service is also supported by Plastic Surgeons based at QEH, Birmingham.
• The post-holder will not be expected to undertake elective or emergency children surgical care.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends. More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of main responsibilities. An example job plan is also included in the Job Description.

Person specification

• Education & Qualifications
  • Full GMC Registration
  • On GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of attainment of CCT in General Surgery (with a Breast Interest) or eligible for Specialist Registration
  • Licence to practise
  • Higher degree MD/PhD [or in final stages of equivalent level of attainment in research publications]
• Experience and Knowledge
  • Wide experience in diagnosis and management of Breast disease.
  • Wide experience in procedures necessary to diagnose and treat symptomatic and screen-detected Breast disease.
  • Independent unsupervised breast reconstruction operating skills.
  • Formal breast Oncoplasty and Breast Reconstruction training
  • Independent unsupervised breast Oncoplasty operating experience including contralateral symmetrisation procedures.
• Audit/Quality improvement
  • Effective participation in and a commitment to clinical audit.
  • Participation in a quality improvement programme
  • Undergone training in teaching and willingness to organise relevant audit activities including quality improvement evidence
  • Completion of formal courses in Audit and quality improvement.
• Audit & Research
  • Understanding and interest in research.
  • Ability to appraise research critically
  • Ability to supervise juniors undertaking research projects.
  • Evidence of recent research and development activity
  • Enthusiasm for service development and for “coal face” teaching and training of junior staff.
  • Publications in nationally and internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals on subjects relevant to the specialty
• Teaching
  • Experience of and a commitment to training/teaching undergraduate and postgraduates.
  • Appraisal and assessment skills.
  • Ability to assess clinical competencies
  • Enthusiastic and ability to inspire and lead others.
  • Willingness to develop new approaches to teaching
  • Post Graduate qualification in teaching and training.
  • Academic experience relevant to working within a University teaching hospital and current metabolic research
• Personal Qualities
  • Demonstrated leadership ability
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Ability to motivate and develop staff of the department.
  • Excellent communication skills, oral and written.
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Flexible outlook on working hours
• Management
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and supervise juniors.
  • Experience of leading teams and awareness of leadership styles
  • Ability to effectively organise, prioritise and manage clinical workload
  • Ability to work to overcome barriers to change (negotiating, influencing and persuasion skills).
  • Evidence of management and administration experience.
  • Aware of Service Development issues
  • Commitment to further develop the post and the service provided
  • Understanding of wider health agenda and modern NHS.
  • Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance issues.
  • Management training on an accredited course.
• Commitment to Trust Values & Behaviours
  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours
• Other requirements specific to the role
  • Proficient in the use of IT systems
  • 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.