Locum Consultant Plastic Surgeon

We're looking for a Consultant Plastic Surgeon with specialist interest in Breast Reconstruction and skin cancer. The successful applicant will join our dynamic Plastic Surgery department, serving a catchment population of approximately 3 million people across Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset, the Isle of Wight and some patients in the Channel Islands., Working collaboratively with the other consultants and wider multi-disciplinary team within Plastic Surgery, the post-holder will;
- Support the further development and improvement of the surgical skin and breast reconstruction services within the Trust, to improve the timely management of patients and increase the resilience of the service.
- Supporting the management of general plastic surgery patients within the department.
- Participate in the consultant on-call rota, taking responsibility for all patients admitted under their care and ensuring timely senior assessment and decision making to facilitate appropriate investigation, prompt management and early discharge.
- Work collaboratively with the breast reconstruction nurses and to continue development of enhanced recovery program.
- Undertake regular ward rounds of in-patients under their care, ensuring handing over of responsibility to colleagues for periods of planned absence and taking over responsibility from colleagues to help cover for absences.
- Undertake weekly clinics and help contribute to the strategic objectives of increasing new patient episodes and reducing unnecessary follow-up where appropriate., We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.
GETTING TO WORK
We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.
The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.
OTHER INFORMATION
If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
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The role will require a candidate with a keen interest in all aspects of skin malignancy and its management. They will be expected to be able to deal with all aspects of pigment-related skin cancer alongside having good general plastic surgical capabilities and the ability to perform Microsurgical Breast Reconstructive work.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme., We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-
+ Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
+ Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
+ An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months)
+ Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
+ Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
+ An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
+ Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Uniform provided (where required)
+ On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
+ On site health and fitness club
+ On site car parking
+ Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.