Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Working Full Time :
10 Sessions Per Week/40 Hours 12 months fixed term. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time fixed term consultant in Plastic & Reconstruction surgery to join our expanding department in the beautiful city of Chester for a 12-month period. This role is predominantly to aid with a surge in demand of skin cancer referrals as well as supporting general plastic services including trauma and on call services. The successful candidate will be expected to have an interest in general plastic surgery with a large proportion of skin cancer cases making up the bulk of elective work. The post also involves some orthoplastic support for lower limb cases in Oswestry as well as locally. Main duties of the job
The appointee will be responsible for the care of patients referred by general practitioners, other hospital departments and will undertake clinics, ward rounds and theatre lists 'Programmed Activities' as appropriate. The job plan will be a 10PA job plan which will be agreed in discussion between the successful candidate and the Lead Clinician in Plastic Surgery, with Planned Care operational management team this will be subject to Annual Review. About us
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations: The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population. The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000. The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances. Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details. Person Specification
Qualifications
FRSC (Plast) or qualification of an equivalent level Full GMC Registration Fellowship or equivalent experience in orthoplastic /lower limb trauma Other specialist fellowship Experience
Wide clinical experience in general Plastic surgery and independent management of skin cancer with interest in Breast, hand and Trauma Surgery Other sub interests such as breast, hand or skin are also desirable. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Good luck with your application.
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Working Full Time :
10 Sessions Per Week/40 Hours 12 months fixed term. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time fixed term consultant in Plastic & Reconstruction surgery to join our expanding department in the beautiful city of Chester for a 12-month period. This role is predominantly to aid with a surge in demand of skin cancer referrals as well as supporting general plastic services including trauma and on call services. The successful candidate will be expected to have an interest in general plastic surgery with a large proportion of skin cancer cases making up the bulk of elective work. The post also involves some orthoplastic support for lower limb cases in Oswestry as well as locally. Main duties of the job
The appointee will be responsible for the care of patients referred by general practitioners, other hospital departments and will undertake clinics, ward rounds and theatre lists 'Programmed Activities' as appropriate. The job plan will be a 10PA job plan which will be agreed in discussion between the successful candidate and the Lead Clinician in Plastic Surgery, with Planned Care operational management team this will be subject to Annual Review. About us
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations: The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population. The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000. The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances. Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details. Person Specification
Qualifications
FRSC (Plast) or qualification of an equivalent level Full GMC Registration Fellowship or equivalent experience in orthoplastic /lower limb trauma Other specialist fellowship Experience
Wide clinical experience in general Plastic surgery and independent management of skin cancer with interest in Breast, hand and Trauma Surgery Other sub interests such as breast, hand or skin are also desirable. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Good luck with your application.
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