Locum Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant in Plastic & Reconstructive surgery with main responsibilities for Soft Tissue Sarcoma and Microsurgeryfor Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The main focus of this post is sarcoma, with additional areas of responsibility in support of other sub specialties. This is a new post created to support provision of the above services and with a view to facilitating dynamic succession planning. The expectation for this post is to make a future substantive appointment and Royal College approval is being sought on this basis., The post-holder will join established oncology, microsurgery and trauma teams. They will be responsible for excisional sarcoma as well as reconstructive oncology, microsurgery and general plastic surgery. They will also participate in the burns and plastic surgery on-call system. Other consultant cross-cover will be required on a flexible basis.

Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.

With more than 19,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.

We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes. We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.