Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant Plastic Surgeon
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7271543HD
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Consultant
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon to work within Northumbria Healthcare. This is a permanent contract based at North Tyneside to work across all sites across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
The successful candidate will be working in a team alongside other Plastic Surgeons. A particular interest or skillset in skin cancer services is advantageous although there will be opportunity to work alongside colleagues in providing microvascular surgery. The post holder will need to be able to work flexibly to address the priorities of the service and provide a balance to meet RTT and cancer performance targets with the benefit of having a predictable schedule.
The successful candidate is expected to further enhance skin cancer provision as well as support with the expansion of microsurgical reconstructive service for the Orthopaedic and General Surgery Departments. The Trust provides services to a population of 500,000. A multi-disciplinary team approach to plastic surgery provision is being actively developed throughout the Trust. This is an opportunity to join an organisation in which Clinicians are at the forefront of management.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will join a team of 4 other Consultants and 2 Specialist Doctors to provide a Plastic and Reconstructive service for the Trust.
The dynamic and innovative General Surgical Services Directorate manages principally General Surgery accoss all of our sites including The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, North Tyneside General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital and Hexham General Hospital. The range of operations performed reflects a diverse and interesting case mix from urban, industrial and rural communities.
The principal General surgical departments have benefited from the Trust’s substantial capital investment and enjoy modern accommodation and state-of-the-art equipment, including Robotic Surgery at both The Northumbria and North Tyneside Hospitals. Staff are enthusiastic, friendly and motivated and work effectively as a team. Relationships with surgeons and other clinicians are excellent. The Directorate is on the Newcastle Specialist Registrar rotation and contributes to both undergraduate and post-graduate education.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
As part of its pursuit of excellence, the Trust has introduced a clinically-based management structure to ensure patient care and medical interests always drive decision-making. The consultant body is both cohesive and innovative and a number of senior clinicians are prominent nationally.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Job Plan will typically include an average of 8 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties and 2 Programmed Activities for Supporting Professional Activities. Please see the attached job description for more information on the role and key responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application
- FRCS Plastics or equivalent
- Full GMC Registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT) in plastic surgery
- Demonstrable subspecialty interest in skin cancer management and appropriate lymphadenectomy procedures
- Demonstrate subspecialty interest in Breast Reconstruction including free flap reconstruction
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
- Ahmad Bhatti
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Ahmad Bhatti - Clinical Lead
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