Specialist Clinical Fellow - Skin CancerNHS

Job summary

There is the opportunity to gain experience in all aspects of skin cancer.

The successful candidate will be expected to assist the skin cancer consultant team in providing all aspects of the plastic surgery service including outpatient clinics, theatres and day surgery.

The postholder will get significant clinical exposure to skin cancer resection, sentinel node biopsy, node clearance and reconstruction surgery in all parts of the body for both primary and recurrent skin tumours.

This experience will be of significant value in training to become a consultant plastic surgeon with opportunities to manage parallel operating lists where appropriate.

There will be an expectation to be integral in the running of the see and treat clinics at Heatherwood Hospital.

Main duties of the job

There are 5 plastic surgery consultants with a subspecialty interest in skin cancer surgery.

Operating lists and clinics take place at all three main hospital sites at Frimley, Wexham and Heatherwood but the majority of the work will be based at Heatherwood.

It will be expected that the postholder will be an integral member of the skin cancer multi-disciplinary meetings (MDMs).

Job description

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full role requirements.

Depending on training and service requirements there will be opportunities to undertake work in other subspecialties including microsurgery, breast reconstruction, hand and emergency surgery.

The successful candidate will be expected to take an active role in audit and academic development as well as the teaching and supervision of junior trainees. The unit has a strong history of contribution to national trials and audits with plenty of opportunity for involvement.

The ability to work flexibly, cohesively and in collaboration with the existing teams is a necessary requirement for the post.

The post holder will benefit from the array of experience and surgery in the department. The Skin Cancer Fellow will have flexibility to optimise their training experience as well as meet individual training requirements.

The job plan will be made up of 8 programmed activities (PA) with no participation in the registrar on-call rota.

This job plan is flexible to maximise training and some service commitments with the intention that approximately 80% of commitments be skin cancer related and 20% be service related.

The post can be approved for training by the GMC and counts towards NTN training in plastic surgery as OOPT.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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