Locum Consultant in Dermatology

Job summary

About the Trust We are a team of highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals working together to deliver excellence in rural healthcare.

Patient centred care:Putting patients at the heart of everything that we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.

Safety:Following ULHT and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.

Excellence:Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.

Compassion:Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we'd want for our friends and family.

Respect:Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.

If you believe in them, we hope to welcome you to the ULHT Team. We are continually striving for excellence and innovation and we are proud of the systems we are developing to provide care for more than 700,000 people at our hospitals in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham. Our teams deliver a range of inpatient, day case and outpatient services from community hospitals run by our NHS partners in Louth. Gainsborough, Spalding and Skegness.

We have close ties with the University of Lincoln, which offers under-graduate and post graduate courses and research opportunities in nursing, midwifery and allied health & social care disciplines. We also have direct links with the new Lincoln medical school in collaboration with the University of Nottingham.

Main duties of the job

1. The appointee will be expected, in conjunction with his/her Consultant colleagues, to provide a comprehensive dermatology service to the hospitals within Lincolnshire, working across the different sites for the organisation as required
2. To provide departmental cover for dermatology by coordinating leave with colleagues
3. To teach medical students, junior doctors, nursing staff and General Practitioners. To take an active part in the Postgraduate Medical Education programme.
4. To have continuing responsibility for the patients in his/her charge and for the proper functioning of the Department
5. To attend the Dermatology Team meetings
6. To take part in the Team, Department, District, Regional and National Audit programme
7. To provide professional supervision and management of nursing and medical staff
8. To be involved in research where appropriat
9. Join the Hot Week rota - including A&G and ward referral
10. Perform skin surgery with a weekly routine surgery but performing as much skin surgery as possible 'one-stop
11. To actively participate in the management of dermatology services in the Trust
12. Undertake such other duties as may be identified to meet the needs of the service.

About us

About the Department ....

The Dermatology service in the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust is organised on a hub and spoke model to provide effective care for the rural population of Lincolnshire. The aim is to provide a comprehensive, high quality service whilst providing care as locally as possible.

All Dermatologists work at the hub and have commitments at spokes and peripheral clinics.

The current consultant team are all generalists. However, each consultant provides a sub-speciality service, such as surgery, phototherapy, contact dermatitis and paediatric dermatology.

There is an excellent busy biologics service which has been developed by Dr Hepburn.

Dermatology have a dedicated Skin Cancer Nursing Team comprising of Skin Cancer CNSs, Skin Surgery Nurse, Cancer Support Nurses and a Clerical Support Worker.