Trosolwg o'r swydd

As  one of our Consultants in Hand Surgery, Breast Microsurgery and Skin Cancer you role will be to provide a specialist clinical service in General Plastic Surgery, Breast Micro-surgical Reconstruction, Hand Surgery and  Skin Cancer Surgery at the St Andrew’s Centre, Broomfield Hospital and its satellite sites.

You will be expected to be independently carrying out micro-surgical breast reconstruction without supervision but will be well supported by senior colleagues although will ben expected to already be performing breast reconstructions independently.

You will also conduct and lead clinically relevant research to improve patient outcomes that will utilise and foster collaboration between local and national university facilities, and the clinical forum at St. Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns.

Broomfield has a well-stocked medical library with audio-visual teaching aids and a full time librarian with a Medline facility and a thriving Postgraduate Medical Centre with regular clinical meetings and a general education programme.

All consultants are expected to take advantage of study leave to maintain and develop their clinical skills to comply with CME requirements.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Your role will involve:

• The total clinical care of the patients referred to them, including all administrative duties associated with patient care, proper record keeping and good communications maintained with patients and their general practitioners.
• Positive collaboration with colleagues to provide the effective clinical leadership for all the staff in the Plastic Surgery Service.
• Multidisciplinary teamwork is envisaged as a key component of this. They will participate in out of hours consultant cover and in the cover arrangements during colleagues’ annual/study leave.
• Undertaking regular ward rounds.
• Participation in clinical audit and in continuing professional education.
• Supervision, teaching, training and professional development of the junior medical staff working in the service. Consultants are fully involved in developing a high standard of teaching of junior medical staff, nurses, and medical students and in designing and contributing to the process for establishment and approval of training posts for junior medical staff
• Maintaining standards of care for their service to the Medical Director, the Chief Executive and Chairman and the Board of the Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 17,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.
 
We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
 
From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us. 

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.