Senior Clinical Fellow in Dermatology

Job summary

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Clinical Fellow to join the established and innovative Dermatology team at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will work with the existing MDT.

The skin department at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital was planned by Dr Richard Charles Staughton, LVO and has historically been known as the Daniel Turner Department of Dermatology, named after Daniel Turner (1666-1740), a London Physician who published the first dermatology textbook in English, De Morbis Cutaneis, in 1714. The department was opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1993 and houses a teaching room with a small library, twin theatres, a day care unit (George Watts Ward) for the intensive treatment of ambulatory patients. The department joined the plastic surgery team in 2013 in a renovated space on the 1st floor of the Chelsea site.

As a leading London teaching hospital, the department sees a wide spectrum of acute and chronic dermatological conditions and runs an 'acute dermatology service'. A number of specialist clinics are held on-site, e.g. skin cancer, paediatric, Vulval, penile, HIV, and biologic therapy. The hospital is also leading in Teledermatology and the use of AI software across North West London.

Main duties of the job

All SpRs contribute to an acute on call rota (0900-1700, Monday -Friday). The requirement will be 1:5 and clinical activity will be adjusted accordingly. There is no out of hours requirement of this role however in cases of absence in the team it may be required for the post holder to support.

Roles and Responsibilities of the post

This post will be based on the Chelsea and Westminster Site an opportunity for a doctor to develop experience and training in the full range of general dermatology specialties with the opportunity to participate in clinics across the range skills needed to achieve complete dermatology training to consultant level. The candidate will have the opportunity to participate in general dermatology, day-care patient reviews, ward referrals and dermatology inpatients. We offer all the specialist clinics mentioned above and there will be opportunities for the post holder to participate in these on an ad hoc basis.

About us

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.

We have two main acute hospital sites--Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

• We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
• We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
• We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
• We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
• We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
• We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life

Our values

Our PROUD values demonstrate to staff, patients and the public the standards of care and experience they should expect from our services:

• Putting patients first
• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop