Job summary
- Main area
- Plastics Skin
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 1 year (1 year fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-WPHSCF-23
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heatherwood Hospital
- Town
- Ascot
- Salary
- £61,825 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Fellow - Skin Cancer
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Clinical Fellow
Job overview
There is the opportunity to gain experience in all aspects of skin cancer. The successful candidate will be expected to assist the skin cancer consultant team in providing all aspects of the plastic surgery service including outpatient clinics, theatres and day surgery. The postholder will get significant clinical exposure to skin cancer resection, sentinel node biopsy, node clearance and reconstruction surgery in all parts of the body for both primary and recurrent skin tumours. This experience will be of significant value in training to become a consultant plastic surgeon with opportunities to manage parallel operating lists where appropriate. There will be an expectation to be integral in the running of the see and treat clinics at Heatherwood Hospital. It will be expected that the postholder will be an integral member of the skin cancer multi-disciplinary meetings (MDMs).
Main duties of the job
There are 5 plastic surgery consultants with a subspecialty interest in skin cancer surgery. Operating lists and clinics take place at all three main hospital sites but the majority of the work is based at Heatherwood. The post holder will be expected to attend and present at the weekly MDTs.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Depending on training and service requirements there will be opportunities to undertake work in other subspecialties including microsurgery, breast reconstruction, hand and emergency surgery. The successful candidate will be expected to take an active role in audit and academic development as well as the teaching and supervision of junior trainees. The unit has a strong history of contribution to national trials and audits with plenty of opportunity for involvement. The ability to work flexibly, cohesively and in collaboration with the existing teams is a necessary requirement for the post.
The post holder will benefit from the array of experience and surgery in the department between the 10 consultants. The Skin cancer Fellow will have flexibility to optimise their training experience as well as meet individual training requirements. They may attend all department meetings including clinical governance, mortality and morbidity and clinical conference and be expected to contribute to the departmental teaching programme.
Full clinical admin support and office space is available at Wexham Park Hospital
The job plan will be made up of 8 programmed activities (PA) with no participation in the registrar on-call rota. This job plan is flexible to maximise training and some service commitments with the intention that approximately 80% of commitments be “skin cancer” related and 20% be “service” related. The post can be approved for training by the GMC and count towards NTN training in plastic surgery as OOPT.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC Registration and hold a licence to practise
Desirable criteria
- • FRCS (PLAST) or equivalent
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ideally with Post FRCS Qualification.
- • Considerable experience in plastic surgery, as demonstrated by being either a Year 6/7 Specialist Registrar or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- • Specialist interest in Cancer Reconstruction
- • Previous experience in the surgery and clinical care of patients
Skill & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
- • Ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with patients and other professionals
- • Ability to manage own and other’s time effectively
Desirable criteria
- • Computer literate
Research
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of original research Clinical research and publications
Teaching
Essential criteria
- • Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training
- • Ability to teach practical clinical skills to Resident and Trust Doctors
Desirable criteria
- • Teaching qualification
Management
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management
Desirable criteria
- • Management training or qualification
- • Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services
Other
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management
Desirable criteria
- • Appraisal training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Deborah Green
- Job title
- Skin Cancer Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07710 043121
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