Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 16 April 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon to work within Northumbria Healthcare. This is a permanent contract based at North Tyneside to work across all sites across Northumberland and North Tyneside.

The successful candidate will be working in a team alongside other Plastic Surgeons. A particular interest or skillset in skin cancer services is advantageous although there will be opportunity to work alongside colleagues in providing microvascular surgery. The post holder will need to be able to work flexibly to address the priorities of the service and provide a balance to meet RTT and cancer performance targets with the benefit of having a predictable schedule.

The successful candidate is expected to further enhance skin cancer provision as well as support with the expansion of microsurgical reconstructive service for the Orthopaedic and General Surgery Departments. The Trust provides services to a population of 500,000. A multi-disciplinary team approach to plastic surgery provision is being actively developed throughout the Trust. This is an opportunity to join an organisation in which Clinicians are at the forefront of management.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will join a team of 5 other Consultants and 2 Specialist Doctors to provide a Plastic and Reconstructive service for the Trust.

The dynamic and innovative General Surgical Services Directorate manages principallyGeneral Surgery acoss all of our sites including The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, North Tyneside General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital and Hexham General Hospital. The range of operations performed reflects a diverse and interesting case mix from urban, industrial and rural communities.

The principal General surgical departments have benefited from the Trust's substantial capital investment and enjoy modern accommodation and state-of-the-art equipment, including Robotic Surgery at both The Northumbria and North Tyneside Hospitals. Staff are enthusiastic, friendly and motivated and work effectively as a team. Relationships with surgeons and other clinicians are excellent. The Directorate is on the Newcastle Specialist Registrar rotation and contributes to both undergraduate and post-graduate education.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

As part of its pursuit of excellence, the Trust has introduced a clinically-based management structure to ensure patient care and medical interests always drive decision-making. The consultant body is both cohesive and innovative and a number of senior clinicians are prominent nationally.

Date posted

02 April 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-7082041HD

Job locations

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Job Plan will typically include an average of 8 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties and 2 Programmed Activities for Supporting Professional Activities. Please see the attached job description for more information on the role and key responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application
FRCS Plastics or equivalent
Full GMC Registration

Experience

Essential

Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT) in plastic surgery
Demonstrable subspecialty interest in skin cancer management and appropriate lymphadenectomy procedures
Demonstrate subspecialty interest in Breast Reconstruction including free flap reconstruction

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application
FRCS Plastics or equivalent
Full GMC Registration

Experience

Essential

Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT) in plastic surgery
Demonstrable subspecialty interest in skin cancer management and appropriate lymphadenectomy procedures
Demonstrate subspecialty interest in Breast Reconstruction including free flap reconstruction

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).