Job summary
- Main area
- Cleft
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 7 sessions per week (See attached job plan)
- Job ref
- 196-CON1061
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 7 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Consultant Cleft Surgeon
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated team.
We are seeking a motivated innovative individual trained in the provision of cleft lip and palate surgery with a skill set and experience that will enable them to provide an opinion on all aspects of paediatric and adult cleft surgery. Interest in research development will be supported if the candidate desires.
We anticipate that the individual will have skills and experience in working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex surgery, with a commitment to service development and improving the patient experience.
The successful individual will need to be able to demonstrate experience of working in the UK cleft community with evidence of presentation at national and international level of cleft related research and service developments.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the Consultant Cleft Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are to provide comprehensive care and treatment of patients with cleft lip and palate. The role involves diagnosing and treating patients across various locations, including outpatient and inpatient sites at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, as well as outreach clinics throughout the region. The post-holder will maintain clinical responsibility for their patients, ensuring proper delegation and training of junior staff. They will also play a significant role in the education and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The post-holder will actively participate in clinical governance activities such as clinical audits, development of clinical guidelines, and risk management to ensure high standards of care. They will be expected to support the clinical activities of the specialty, contribute to the research efforts of the department, and engage in quality improvement initiatives. The post-holder will also manage outpatient clinics, provide consultant cover for junior staff, and integrate into multidisciplinary teams to deliver world-class cleft services.
The post-holder will undertake general administrative duties, ensuring compliance with Trust policies and procedures, and will keep an up-to-date record of their competencies and a clinical activity log.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and
renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the detailed job description and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) or equivalent qualification
- FRCS(Plast) or FRCS(OMFS) or FRCS(ENT) or equivalent qualification
- Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC), or be eligible for registration within six months of interview
- Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
- Post CCT training and experience in cleft lip and palate surgery / paediatric reconstructive surgery equivalent but not limited to the Cleft TIG.
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience in the specialty
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
- Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in developing and implementing new technologies.
Research and Audit
Essential criteria
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
- Evidence of the ability to critically appraise published evidence
- Evidence of active participation in audit: candidates must demonstrate data from at least one personal audit over the last two years
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in research with published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
Clinical Governance
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate awareness of good decision making; awareness of own limitations with a track record of engaging in clinical governance and learning from errors
Teaching and Education
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff, and staff in training
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
Language and Communication
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, of a standard to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues evidenced by undergraduate medical training in English, or ILETS score above 7.5 overall or alternative supporting evidence
- Working in partnership with patients: - always considering patients preferences when discussing treatment options - always considering the full impact of clinical decisions on the patient - practice shared decision making - direct and support patients to access the information needed to make an informed decision
Management and Leadership
Essential criteria
- Possess organisational and management abilities, including the ability to prioritise the workload of a consultant and deal with conflicting demands
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
- Managing others with the ability to exhibit appropriate leadership; empowering others, leading by example and leading through change
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
Personal Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Team working – to engender effective working relationships; individually, in multidisciplinary teams and at all levels
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and to maintain professional and expected behavioural standards despite challenging circumstances
- Alignment with the Trust’s Core & Professional Behaviours
Desirable criteria
- Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate le Marechal
- Job title
- Head of Service, Evelina London Cleft Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7188 1321
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