Job description

This post is for a 6 Months Fixed Term Senior Clinical Fellow in Burns & Plastic Surgery. This is a whole time post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals.

The successful candidate will be attached to Consultant Plastic Surgeons with interest in elective hand and trauma surgery in order to gain further training in the particular expertise of these consultants. Any successful applicant would be expected to work as an integral part of a surgical team and would take on considerable responsibility for patients under the care of the Consultant for whom they are working with.

Due to the short term nature of the role, the successful candidate must hold full registration with the GMC and have existing right to work in the UK, at the time of application. Candidates who are not GMC registered or do not hold existing right to live and work in the UK, at the time of application will not progress through the shortlisting stage.

Interview Date: 4th January 2023

The candidate will have authority to order such blood tests, X-rays and other basic investigations as you deem necessary for the patient’s care. Similarly, you may prescribe such drugs necessary for the patient or change the treatment of patients where appropriate after consultation with the Specialist Registrar or the Consultant in charge. When working in the Out-patient Clinics you may discharge patients with agreement of Consultant/Specialist Registrar.

Our Achievements

St Helens and Knowsley 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.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man. We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

• Acute Trust of the Year – HSJ Awards November 2019
• Trust rates Outstanding by the CQC – Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal)
• Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
• Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas:

• Standard of care
• Best place to work
• Care of patients being the Trust’s priority
• Staff engagement
• Staff morale
• Compassionate and inclusive
• Providing a safe environment for staff

Department Facilities

The principal purpose of the post is to provide a burn and general plastic surgical service to the local population within the Mersey Region, North Wales and the Isle of Man.

The Plastic Surgery and Burn Unit is situated in the new Whiston Hospital. The Unit has its own dedicated burns, plastics, laser and day case theatres and a dressing clinic. The consultants have access to 28 plastic surgery beds and a trauma assessment unit opposite to the plastic surgery ward and 12 burn beds on the burn ward.

There are 29 Consultant Plastic Surgeons in the Mersey Regional Plastic Surgery Unit.

Additional Clinical Departments

The department at Whiston is supported by a medical photography service, on-site radiology and the provision of a mobile x-ray facility appropriate for hand surgery. The LRS at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the Plastic Surgery Department have developed close links. The Mohs service has a TIG fellow and a Hand Fellow post is part of the Plastic Surgery Hand service. The Department, along with the Breast Unit is recognised as a national centre for breast onco-plastic training. A Breast Surgery Fellow spends six months with the reconstructive breast surgeons. The Prosthetic Department is part of the B&P directorate and offers patients viable and safe alternatives to surgery to enable them to maintain their dignity and their place in society.

The Work of the Unit

The Mersey Plastic Surgery Unit comprises of a 28 bedded ward (including 12 en-suite cubicles), 5 assessment cubicles in its plastic surgery trauma unit, a prosthetics department and a pre-operative assessment clinic. The separate burn ward has 12 beds and is in close proximity to critical care and the burn theatre. The unit has 3 theatres for plastic surgery, 1 for burns and 1 for daycase skin work at Whiston. There are 6 daycase theatre sessions per week on the St Helens site. Whiston hospital houses the majority of other surgical and medical specialities occasionally needed by plastic surgical patients.

We have excellent pathological and radiological departments on site with recently enhanced MRI facilities. The service delivered by the burns and plastic surgery team is of high volume and high complexity; they manage a varied mix of cases referred to them both from regionally and nationally and have excellent outcomes as identified during the last GIRFT report.

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