Specialist Clinical Fellow - Plastic Surgery (ST3-5)

Job Overview

The job plan will be made up of 10 programmed activities (PA) with participation in the registrar on-call rota. This is 1 in 7 non-resident on call covering Plastic Surgery admissions to Wexham Park Hospital. This job plan is flexible to maximize training and some service commitments with exposure to common plastic surgery condition including trauma, elective hand, skin cancer, breast reconstruction and hypospadias.. The post can be approved for training by the GMC and count towards NTN training in Plastic Surgery as OOPT.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will get the opportunity to benefit form the array of experience and surgery in the department between the 8 consultants. The registrar 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.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post holder will get extensive hands-on experience in the management of emergency and elective plastic surgery conditions. This includes hand and wrist, skin cancer, breast reconstruction, lower limb reconstructions and hypospadias surgery. Operating lists and clinics take place at all three main hospital sites but the majority of the work is based at Wexham Park.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MRCS (Part A -1) (Part B -1)
• Other degrees e.g BSc, MSc, PhD
• Distinction, Scholarships, Prizes
  
  

Professional Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous plastic surgery positions
• Logbook - Plastic surgery procedures (3)/other procedures (3)
• Audit - evidence of collecting, analysing and presenting data orally
• Presentations - evidence of collecting, analysing and presenting data orally
• Research - participation in research
• Publications - evidence of publications
• Courses/conferences
  
  

Specific competencies for the role

Essential criteria

• Evidence of leadership/management
• Evidence of team working
• Evidence of communication skills
• Outside interests
• Commitment to plastic surgery
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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