Plastic Surgery Fellow - North Shields, United Kingdom - Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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North Shields, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Applications are invited for this new exciting role of plastic surgery fellow, created to provide an opportunity to develop skills in plastic surgery and deliver audit and research within Northumbria Healthcare NHS.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is rated "outstanding" for the Care Quality Commission.

This is a unique opportunity to develop skills in plastic surgery procedures and the management of complex wounds, within a small multidisciplinary team at Northumbria Healthcare.

Supporting with the care of patients pre and post surgery with breast reconstruction, general plastics and micro surgical procedures

Assisting the Surgeons in theatres

Complex wound management, including debridement and use of skin flaps and grafts

To deliver outpatient and inpatient care

To assist in the development of the plastic surgery service at Northumbria Healthcare

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.

We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.

High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us.

We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

The primary aims of the post are:

to provide support to the plastic surgeons in theatre lists and develop skillset
To support patients both pre and post surgery, including ward rounds and OPD clinics
To manage patients nonsurgically
To deliver follow up for patients on skin cancer pathways
To develop the orthoplastic service