Job overview

Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust is the largest provider of breast services in north-west London. The breast surgery department sees approximately 21,000 outpatients and undertakes 800 surgical procedures a year. The department provides a broad range of services including daily rapid diagnostic clinics, a comprehensive surgical service which offers the full range of reconstructive options, and a well-established family history clinic. It is an essential service for patients referred from local primary care services as well as the Trust-hosted West of London Breast Screening Service.

 We welcome applications for this 10 PA fixed-term consultant breast surgeon post to start late summer 2025. The post-holder will play a key role in ensuring the department of breast surgery provides the local population with a high quality and accessible service. They will require broad experience in the diagnosis and management, including surgery, of patients with breast cancer and benign breast disease.

Main duties of the job

 

The post will be based at Charing Cross Hospital although there may be a requirement to undertake some outpatient activity at St Mary’s Hospital. The post-holder will divide their time between direct care, ie clinical work, surgery and outpatients (80%), and medical staff management and training (20%). In addition to their own theatre lists, the breast surgeons work jointly with the plastics team on immediate reconstruction cases. The surgeons run one-stop rapid diagnostic new patient clinics and follow-up clinics. There is no on-call commitment with this post.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.