Senior Training Fellow (Breast) (NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow) - Breast Surgery[...]

Main area Breast Surgery Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow Contract 24 months (Fixed term 2 years) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job ref 205-7035048-A

Employer University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Stoke Town Stoke on Trent Salary £61,825 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59

Senior Training Fellow (Breast)

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

Job overview

This post is suitable for an individual with breast surgery experience who is nearing completion of Specialist Registrar training or who is a breast specialist who wishes to gain experience in advanced management of complex breast conditions, benign and malignant, including Oncoplastic surgery. Candidates should therefore have had significant previous training in breast surgery. The post will comprise no emergency duties. It is mainly to cover elective sessions at UHNM and a ten session job with research and audit commitments.

The UHNM Breast Unit is a busy breast surgery unit in the West Midlands, UK and manages the spectrum of benign and malignant breast disorders in close collaboration with colleagues from radiology, oncology, pathology and plastic surgery. Screening assessment cases are managed across North Staffordshire. The Unit sees 700 new breast cancers a year.

Main duties of the job

• Diagnosis and treatment of patients.
• Support the Consultants to ensure continuing clinical responsibility for the patients in your charge allowing for all proper delegation to and training of staff.
• Support the Consultants in the diagnosis and treatment of patients occupying accommodation made available under section 58, 65, and 66 of the National Health Act 1977, in so far as such patients have not made private arrangements for such treatment under section 65(2) of the Act.
• The appointed candidate will have no commitments to General Surgery or on call rota.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration
• MRCS/FRCS or equivalent
• National training number
• FRCS Intercollegiate

Experience

• Broad experience in elective breast and oncoplastic surgery
• Attended oncoplastic courses or currently doing MS oncoplastic surgery.

Important information about your application

• All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
• References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
• We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
• Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.

At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!