Specialist in Dermatology

The Dermatology department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (SFH NHS FT) is a well-established dedicated department based at King's Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield and Newark General Hospital in Newark.

The successful candidate is expected to deliver high level dermatology care for general dermatology and skin cancer in the clinical and surgical setting. The doctor is responsible for running the patch test clinic along with a specialist nurse for patients suspected contact dermatitis. The candidate will also be expected to take responsibility for treating patients with complex inflammatory dermatosis both inpatient and outpatient.

The successful candidate is also expected to do deliver skin cancer care in clinical and surgical setting. This including been a core member of the local skin cancer MDT but also chairing the MDT and discuss management of complex patient at the specialist MDT as needed. The candidate is expected to be the Audit lead for dermatology team.

Main duties of the job

The over-riding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

Whilst on duty a doctor has clinical and professional responsibility for their patients. It is also the duty of a doctor to:

Keep patients (and/or their carers if appropriate) informed about their condition.

Involve patients (and/or their carers if appropriate) in decision making about their treatment.

Maintain professional standards and obligations as set out from time to time by the General Medical Council (GMC) and comply in particular with GMC's guidance on 'Good Medical Practice' as amended or substituted from time to time.

A doctor is responsible for carrying out any work related to and reasonably incidental to the duties set out in the Job Plan such as:

The keeping of records and the provision of reports.

The proper delegation of tasks.

Maintaining skills and knowledge.

Doctors will be expected to be flexible and to cooperate with reasonable requests to cover for their colleagues' absence where they are safe and competent and where it is practicable to do so.

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.