Senior Clinical Fellow in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Expected caseload:
- It is anticipated that between 50-100 breast reconstruction patients will require input from the Plastic Surgery team per year, and approximately 100 microsurgical procedures will be performed electively per year within the department at UHCW.
Supervision:
• Consultant supervision will be provided for the clinical activities described above.
Objectives:
• To enhance your knowledge and understanding of:
• Breast Assessment and diagnosis of breast pathology.
• Understanding the pathway and delivering safe and effective counselling for patients at high risk of developing breast cancer.
• Understanding the pathway of breast cancer management.
• Being part of the team liaising with other members of the breast multidisciplinary team
• Working closely with other specialities including breast surgeons, pathologists, breast care nurses, oncologists, radiologists.
To become more skilled in:
• Assessment and management of patients with breast cancer and those at high risk.
• Primary and secondary reconstruction
• Microsurgical free tissue transfer in the immediate setting and for delayed revision/reconstruction.
• The use of implants and adjuncts for breast reconstruction
• Counselling patients with a new diagnosis of breast cancer
• Undertaking simple and skin sparing mastectomy.
• Developing skills in sentinel lymph node biopsy and axillary clearance.
• Developing skills in wire guided wide local excision, therapeutic mammoplasty, LICAP / TDAP / LD flaps, and lumpectomy.
Candidates who hold the FRCS (Plast.) examination, are post- or peri-CCT, and require subspecialty training in Oncological, Oncoplastic and microsurgical breast reconstruction and microsurgery.
Person specification
Qualifications
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- Meets all essential
Experience
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- Meets all essential
Skills/Knowledge
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- Meets all essential
Desirable criteria
- Meets all desirable
Teaching/Education
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Desirable criteria
- Meets all desirable
Personal Qualities
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- Meets all essential
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
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- Meets all essential
To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.
Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Please note: An application cap has been applied to this position. UHCW reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications or if there has been a change in organisational priorities.
Documents to download
- JDPS (PDF, 512.3KB)
- Clinical Fellow Info Sheet (PDF, 292.4KB)
- Candidate Information (PDF, 314.7KB)
- Welcoming Applicants with a Disability (PDF, 56.7KB)