Locum Consultant Plastic Surgeon – Burns

East of England, East of England

Fixed-Term

£99,532 to £131,964

Doctor - Other

Locum Consultant Plastic Surgeon – Burns

Job summary

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant Plastic Surgeon with a Special interest in Burns, at the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust. This is a full-time post for one year and to start as soon as possible.

The post holder will work as one of a team of Consultant Burns Surgeons, covering the Regional Burns Service in the Midlands. The adult burns centre is based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust. Paediatric burns management takes place at the Birmingham Children's Hospital.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham opened in June 2010 and has 1250 beds, providing secondary care to its local population and tertiary care to the West Midlands, the wider community and neighbouring counties. This provides state of the art operating theatres, a 100-bedded critical care department, excellent radiology support and first class in-and-out-patient facilities. The Centre for Defence Medicine is based in the hospital and is the main receiving hospital for the British military casualties from conflict areas around the world. From April 2012, QEHB has functioned as a Level 1 Trauma Centre receiving major civilian trauma from the West Midlands and neighbouring counties.

Main duties of the job

The Burns Centre has 15 purpose built single occupancy rooms including 6 HDU beds. The Centre is adjacent to the ITU and the operating theatres.

Burns and Plastic Surgery is a separate speciality within CDG9 Queen Elizabeth Hospital, CDG 9 Medical Director Mr Nigel Suggett, Burns Clinical Lead is Mr Azzam Farroha.

Specialist burns fellowship (6 months minimum) covering both adult and paediatric burns at post CCT/CESR level or at senior level post FRCS Plastic

Wide experience in total burn care, at a senior level in the NHS including surgical and non-surgical management of complex and major burns, both acute care and long term reconstruction

Experience in general plastic surgery

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holders will become an integral part of the Burns MDT Team. You will join a well-established and active team of burn surgeons who work across both hospital sites to provide care in both the Paediatric and Adult Burn Centres in Birmingham, as part of the Midlands Burn Operational Delivery Network.

The Job Plan will comprise of 10 programmed activities. This include burns on-call (1:6). The job plan will be subject to the needs of the service and experience of the successful candidate. The final time table will be constructed following discussion with the successful candidate and will result in an agreed job plan. The job plan will be mainly in burns, but there will some opportunity to general plastic surgery and laser therapy.

The appointee will participate in the 1:6 burns on call rota covering the adult burns centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the paediatric burns centre at Birmingham Children Hospital Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Full registration with the General Medical Council GMC, with license to practice.
FRCS(Plast) or equivalent
On the GMC Specialist Registration in Plastic Surgery. Or CCT in plastic surgery within 6 months at time of interview.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .