Main area: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract: Locum: 6 months
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 200-712870-6518190-JT-2
Employer: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St George's Hospital
Town: Tooting, London
Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/09/2024 23:59
Locum Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.
We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.
As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a 6-month fixed term locum consultant post to join the well-established H&N team. The post is comprised of 6 PAs at SGH and 4 PAs at CUH. In addition to the core activities provided by the Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon, the new appointee will be expected to have a major interest in Head and Neck Oncology & Reconstructive Surgery. The Consultant Group is committed to multidisciplinary team working for the benefit of both patients and trainees. Examples of where this has been taken forward are joint H&N Oncology clinics, joint MDTs with Consultants from out of area. These services bring together clinicians from a number of specialties including; otolaryngology, neurosurgery, clinical oncology, plastic surgery, orthodontics and restorative dentistry. The new post holder would be expected to expand multidisciplinary working in his/her area of interest.
The postholder will be expected to carry out audit and activities associated with Clinical Governance as required by the Trusts and or by the Royal College.
Main duties of the job
- To share in the overall workload of Head and Neck Oncology Referrals in and out of region
- Promotion of (and participation in) teaching within the department
- Flexible cover for the clinical commitments of the department
- To be active in research and to continue to maintain and update their professional knowledge
- To fulfill all the general conditions applying to employees of St George’s Healthcare Trust
- On call duties will be 1:8 frequency at St George’s Hospital and attracts 1.07 PA with 5% supplement.
- Peripheral commitments to meet service delivery
Working for our organisation
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest healthcare units in the United Kingdom accommodating around 1170 beds and treating around 80,000 inpatient and day cases, and over 300,000 outpatients annually. The Trust employs over 5000 staff incorporating 675 Medical & Dental Staff. It provides general acute services together with specialty services including neurosciences, cardiothoracic, and specialist children’s services.
St George’s Hospital is the main teaching hospital in the western sector of the South Thames, and as such has developed links with most district general hospitals throughout South Thames West, and supports a significant training programme for junior doctors who rotate through the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached Job description and person specification for more details. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Person specification
Qualifications
- On the GMC Specialist Register in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery or within 6 months of eligibility for inclusion.
- Full Registration with the United Kingdom GMC and GDC.
- Intercollegiate Fellowship Examination in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, or equivalent. Fellowship in Dental Surgery or Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, or equivalent. Fellowship or Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, or equivalent.
- Possession of a Certificate of Accreditation or eligibility for a CCST in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.
Experience
- Successful completion of an SAC approved 5 year minimum training programme in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, or within 3 months of completion.
- Extensive experience in all aspects of Maxillofacial Surgery including particular emphasis on benign and malignant head and neck pathology management and reconstructive surgery
Teaching
- Commitment to organise education and training of junior doctors, therapy staff, nurses and medical students
- Qualification in teaching or completion of a ‘Teach the Trainers’ course
Management
- Evidence of previous active participation in leadership and management activities
- Understanding of NHS policy and delivery of national performance targets (including hospital acquired infections)
- Flexible, pragmatic and a problem solving approach.
Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Evidence of ability to continuously improve patient and staff experience
- Ability to manage competing demands in a busy acute environment and cope and manage own emotions under stress
- Competent in the use of IT/computer systems
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email or via NHS Jobs.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features.
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.
Name: Mr Rahul Jayaram
Job title: Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon & Care Group Lead
Email address:
Telephone number: 0208 725 3658
Additional information: We encourage prospective candidates to kindly visit our unit prior to application.
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