Locum Cons Plastics WSI Head & Neck Recon, Facial Palsy & Skin Cancer

Overview

A Vacancy at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will provide a specialist clinical service in General Plastic Surgery at the St Andrew’s Centre based at Broomfield Hospital and its satellite sites, with a special interest in microsurgical Head & Neck Cancer Reconstruction, Facial Palsy Reconstruction and Complex Skin Cancer. The successful applicant will also conduct and lead clinically relevant research to improve patient outcomes, utilising and fostering collaboration between local and national university facilities, and the clinical forum rew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns.

• Providing emergency and ongoing expertise for patients and services regarding patients referred to him/her.
• The total clinical care of the patients referred to him/her, including all administrative duties associated with patient care, proper record keeping and good communications maintained with patients and their general practitioners.
• Positive collaboration with colleagues to provide effective clinical leadership for all the staff in the Plastic Surgery Service.
• Multidisciplinary teamwork is envisaged as a key component of this role, as a core member of the Head & Neck Cancer MDT and Facial Palsy MDT.
• Participate in out of hours consultant cover and in the cover arrangements during colleagues’ annual/study leave.
• Undertaking regular ward rounds.
• Participate in clinical audit and in continuing professional education.
• Supervision, teaching, training and professional development of the junior medical staff working in the service. Consultants are fully involved in developing a high standard of teaching of junior medical staff, nurses, and medical students and in designing and contributing to the process for establishment and approval of training posts for junior medical staff.
• Maintaining standards of care for his/her service to the Medical Director, the Chief Executive and Chairman and the Board of the Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust.

We offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, consistent with the needs of patients and with the way that people live their lives. We will also provide you with personal development, access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed. We will provide support and opportunities for you to maintain your health, well-being, and safety.

You will also be given the opportunity to engage in decisions that affect you and the services you provide, individually through representative organisations and through local partnership working arrangements. All our staff are empowered to put forward ways to deliver better and safer services for patients and their families. We’ll also give you the motivation by providing excellent career packages and benefits, combined with the opportunity to work with like-minded individuals.

All we need from you is the necessary expertise and a good people attitude.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

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