Consultant Plastic Surgeon - interest in Orthoplastic Surgery & Burns

Job summary
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

We are seeking an individual trained in the provision of acute burns management and microsurgical reconstruction with an interest in limb and burns reconstruction. We anticipate the individual will have skills in working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex surgery, with a commitment to service development and improving the patient experience.

Main duties of the job

• Integrate into the multi-disciplinary burns and lower extremity trauma teams within the trust
• Develop areas of practice and streamline the surgical journey in acute burns care and lower extremity trauma
• Provide a reconstructive service for burns and lower extremity trauma
• Join the burns on-call rota (1:6)

Job responsibilities

• Administrative: Maintain a clinical activity log.
• Research: The department will support an academic interest and the development of the academic portfolio of the department.
• Teaching: Actively engage in regional teaching programmes. Mentor trainees and undergraduates interested in careers in plastic surgery.

About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Salary
£113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Full-time

Closing date
03 November 2026

Person Specification
Essential

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC Registration.
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• Microsurgical fellowship
• Burns fellowship
• Logbook evidence of burns and major lower limb reconstruction
• Evidence of experience in the specialty.
• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance.
• Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Research/critical review of literature.
• Publications in the last five years.
• Evidence of participation in audit.

Desirable

• Higher Degree.
• Special skills training in the specialty.
• Consultant experience
• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
• Evidence of leadership / project management.
• Evidence of having implemented change.
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies.
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Contact
HR Advisor: Victoria Cowan, victoria.cowan2@nhs.net

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