Job summary
- Main area
- Plastic Surgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 196-CON1040
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum excl. London Zone
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Plastic Surgery Consultant - spec int. in Microsurgical Reconstruction
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
The South East Regional Plastics Unit is seeking a substantive Consultant Position within the Regional Unit.
The post within the microsurgery service based at both King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital.
Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is the home of the Regional Plastics Unit. It is commissioned to provide Plastic Surgery Services to all the NHS hospitals throughout the South East of London - this includes King’s College Hospital and the Major Trauma Centre, Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) , Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, Lewisham Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup. With services delivered outside the region at St Marks’, Northwick Park and University College Hospital.
The Trauma and Lower Limb unit are looking for a surgeon to enhance their existing rota and work with our experienced microsurgical colleagues, on the Microsurgical Orthoplastic Trauma Service delivered at King’s College Hospital and at St Thomas’ Hospital. This role will also involve being part of the breast microsurgery MDT at St Thomas’ for the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
Duties include trauma clinics, daily trauma meetings, multidisciplinary ward rounds and daily trauma operating.
There will be the opportunity at St Thomas’ to develop a sub speciality interest that complements the needs of the Regional Unit. There are currently 25 surgeons offering services in Head and Neck reconstruction, Skin Cancer, Paediatrics, Cleft, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction,, Gynaecology and general Surgery, Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lymphoedema and Hidadrenitis Suppurativa.
The successful applicant will need to have experience of complex microsurgical reconstruction preferably with a focus on trauma reconstruction. A Fellowship and previous Consultant experience will be advantageous.
Working for our organisation
This is an excellent opportunity to join a first class team in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment, which will be appointing to permanent positions in the near future as well.
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please note that the job description is currently being approved by the Royal College of Surgeons**
You must be fully registered with the GMC/GDC and hold Licence to Practice and be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable adults and/or children (0-18 years) and therefore 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Please note that successful completion of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is our accepted minimum language requirement.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Eligible for full UK GMC registration and a License to Practise
- On GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of attaining CCT
- FRCS (Plast) or equivalent
- Completion of a micro fellowship
Desirable criteria
- Other relevant postgraduate qualifications (eg MD, PhD, MS, MSc
- Previous consultant experience
Clinical experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical experience in microsurgery
Desirable criteria
- Experience in clinical guideline development
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
- Team based approach to cate and service management, including appreciation of nursing and therapy roles
- Specialist interest in micro-surgical reconstruction
Audit Management and IT
Essential criteria
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk managment within the field of plastic surgery
Research, Teaching Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training
- Publications in at least one specialist field
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
- Demonstrable Research output
Leadership and management skills
Essential criteria
- Communication - ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/negotiate
- Accountability - ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority
- Interpersonal skills: empathy, understanding and listening skills, patients and ability to work co-operatively with others
- Ability to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure
- Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff
- Knowledge of finance and budgets
- Ability to work as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Appraisal training
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
- Edmund Fitzgerald O'Connor
- Job title
- Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07790020560
- Additional information
General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Mr. Edmund Fitzgerald O’Connor Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Clinical Lead or Mr. Asmat Din Consultant Orthoplastic Surgeon.
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