Senior Clinical Fellow - Microsurgery Fellow in Plastic Surgery

This post is for a Microsurgery Fellow in Plastic Surgery. This is a whole-time fixed term post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Surgeon looking to progress their career in microsurgery to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care from the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery unit at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

Applications are invited from individuals seeking specialist training in breast reconstruction with a focus on microsurgical reconstruction. The Plastic Surgery Department at MWLT performs around 170 free flap breast reconstructions per year. There is also a significant non-microsurgical breast reconstructive workload including asymmetry correction, congenital, breast reduction, revisional breast surgery and subtotal breast reconstruction carried out in the department., It is anticipated that this postholder would be involved in a number of free flap cases per week and will attend breast reconstruction focused clinics each week as well as preparing and presenting the monthly Breast Reconstruction MDT.

Once in post the microsurgery fellow can expect to be trained in the full remit of breast reconstruction with a heavy focus on microsurgical cases. They will contribute to the general plastic surgery on call and will be encouraged to attend flap salvage cases out of hours on an informal basis.

Due to the clinical demands of this post, it is ideally aimed at individuals who have completed their FRCS (Plast), or who are post-accreditation, but seeking further specialist microvascular training.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

The Trust's vision is to provide 5 Star Patient Care.

Every single member of staff plays a huge part in this, no matter what your role, you will make a difference and support the delivery of this vision.

It is vital to our ongoing success that we all share the same aspiration, the same focus, and provide the same high standards right across the organisation and we can do this by focussing on 5 key areas.

CARE that is consistently high quality, compassionate, and provides the best possible experience for our patients and their families.

SAFETY that is of the highest standards, where staff feel empowered to further improve services and reduce the risk of harm.

PATHWAYS that reduce variations in care to improve outcomes, whilst respecting the individual needs of patients.

SYSTEMS that are efficient, user-friendly, and reliable. Drawing upon best practice to ensure our processes support the needs of our patients.

COMMUNICATION that is open and inclusive. Always showing patients, their families and our colleagues, the dignity and respect we would wish for ourselves.