Employer: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/10/2024 23:59
Locum Consultant in Plastic Surgery
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Job overview
This is a 10PA post in the Department of Paediatric Burns & Plastic Surgery, to cover sabbatical leave, from 1st January 2025 for a fixed term of one year. The appointee will provide paediatric burns and plastic surgery care. It would be desirable for the appointee to have experience in facial palsy management.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will join the other consultants in the department to provide a paediatric plastic surgery service, and will cover the facial palsy service, depending on skills and experience. The successful candidate will participate in a 1:6 on call for plastic surgery and burns at Alder Hey Children's Hospital at Category A.
The post-holder will report through the Clinical Director for plastic surgery to the Chief Medical Officer with professional support from the Divisional Director of Surgery.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales, and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state-of-the-art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation, and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research, and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe, and confident as they play, learn, and grow. At Alder Hey, we are here to look after a child and their family, which includes mums, dads, brothers, and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Alder Hey provides general paediatric services for the local paediatric population receiving referrals from both general practitioners and the Accident & Emergency Department (the busiest paediatric A & E Department in Europe).
Alder Hey is one of six paediatric burn centres and admits burn patients of all severities, including those requiring Paediatric Intensive Care. A substantial proportion of the plastic surgery carried out by the hospital is the tertiary level care of children with burns and congenital abnormalities such as vascular and hand anomalies. There is a comprehensive range of diagnostic and treatment facilities with access to a full aspect of paediatric specialist expertise on site. A multidisciplinary team performs paediatric craniofacial surgery as a supra-regional speciality and the Trust provides a regional Cleft Lip and Palate Service.
All paediatric specialties are represented by colleagues working at Alder Hey. There is a consultant-led Community Child Health Service based at Alder Hey and integrated into the Trust.
Person specification
Education & Training
- Full GMC registration
- On the Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery
- Expected date of award of CCT (or recognized equivalent if outside the UK) falls no more than 6 months after the date of interview for this post
- MB BS, FRCS (Plast) or equivalent
- Higher degree equivalent to MPhil, MD, or PhD level
- Emergency Management of Severe Burns
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
Experience
- Higher specialist training in Plastic Surgery or equivalent
- Demonstrable interest in paediatric plastic surgery
- Paediatric plastic surgery fellowship
Skills
- Teaching skills and experience
- Ability to supervise the clinical work of doctors in training and other staff
- Ability to organise and prioritise personal workload and that of others
- Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with staff at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to relate to patients and carers from a wide range of backgrounds and to empathise with their needs and concerns
- Track record of delivery of new activity
- Track record of delivery of standards of care along with service development
- Evidence of business awareness
Personal Attributes
- Self-motivation to set and achieve targets
- Flexible with regards to teamwork
- Effective member of multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to personal and professional development
- Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to the development of a high-quality service
- Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to clinical governance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Sian Falder
Job title: Consultant Plastic Surgeon & Clinical Lead
Email address: (emailprotected)
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