Sarcoma Consultant Surgeon - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

We are excited to invite applications for a substantive Sarcoma Consultant, part of the wider General Surgery team. The General Surgery directorate consists of Surgeons based at the Queen Elizabeth site. The directorate also includes 3 existing substantive Sarcoma Consultants, 5 substantive Upper GI Consultants and 12 substantive Lower GI Consultants based at the Queen Elizabeth site. This post will be based at the QE site primarily. The junior doctor team includes senior clinical fellows and various grades of Junior Doctors. The unit has inpatient beds allocated on the new partnership wards at the adjacent Harborne Hospital.

The post holder will be expected to work with local managers and professional colleagues in the efficient running of the service. Subject to the provisions of the terms and conditions of service, the post holder must observe agreed policies and procedures on clinical matters and should follow the standing orders and financial instructions of the Hospital. This is to support the development of evidence-based medicine and is not intended to constrain individual consultant freedom.

Main duties of the job

To ensure that clinical services are efficiently administered

To maintain CPD

To participate actively in clinical governance

To develop audit / research interests within the resources available

The post holders will be required to undertake any other duties and responsibilities that fall within the broad framework of the post.

As this is a post in a developing Trust structure, the role will be reviewed from time to time and the post holder is expected to respond flexibly to develop this and/or other roles to enable the Trust to meet differing priorities.

The consultant will participate on the on-call rota. The on call is structured as 4 days on call during week one (Monday -- Thursday) and 3 days on call the following weekend (Friday -- Sunday). No elective work is routinely scheduled during the on call period. The on call week is shared with a buddy Consultant (2nd on call) who is the consultant designated for the emergency theatre. First and second Consultant on call alternate their roles every 12 weeks. Further details and any clarification can be discussed with the CSL.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job responsibilities

In the management of employees of the Trust, you will be expected to follow legislation and personnel policies and procedures and in particular to act in accordance with the principles of equality of opportunity.

You must at all times comply with appropriate Hospital Health and Safety policies and legislation laid down in this respect.

All employees must comply with the Trust Infection Control Policy. All employees must attend infection control training as required within their department or as directed by their line manager.

The candidate should be a surgeon specialised in soft-tissue sarcoma with the focus on retroperitoneal sarcoma and should have a clear academic interest. It is expected that the successful candidate will have undertaken dedicated sarcoma fellowships/training in major institutions. The candidate must demonstrate evidence of having performed retroperitoneal sarcoma surgery for liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, and other histologies. Experience should include the performance of compartmental resections and major vascular resections. It is also essential that the candidate can independently perform surgery for trunk/abdominal wall/groin/extremities soft tissue sarcoma. It is expected that the candidate will demonstrate a strong academic CV in sarcoma, predominantly retroperitoneal sarcoma, including peer-reviewed publications in indexed journals and presentations at international conferences.

Aside from the sarcoma elective work, the candidate needs to demonstrate their ability to independently run the on-call in emergency surgery.

For further information regarding the post, please contact:

Mr Max Almond -- Clinical Lead for Upper GI and Sarcoma.

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Mr Omar Sabir, General Manager -- Emergency and General Surgery, Upper GI, Lower GI, Sarcoma, Gastro & Endoscopy

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Qualifications

Essential