Dermatology Mohs Consultant

Job summary

The post holder will play a key role in realising our ambition to continue to build a high quality clinical service by bringing additional skills to our Dermatology service. The successful applicant will be a committed clinician, on the specialist dermatology register (or within 6 months of CCT), with subspecialist interest/training in Mohs surgery and a track record of excellent clinical service delivery, service improvement, teaching, training and other qualities as identified in the person specification. It is a requirement of the post that every doctor takes part in annual job planning and annual appraisal as part of the revalidation cycle.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be responsible to the Divisional Director of Planned Care at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, through the Specialty Lead for Dermatology. It is a 4 PA post - 3 direct clinical care (DCC) and 1 supporting professional activities (SPA). The post has 1 dedicated sessions of clinical admin. These supplement the admin time inbuilt within the 3 sessions. The department has a streamlined lesion assessment and excision pathway to deliver a one-stop service based on a consultant and specialist nursing team. 3 sessions of surgery are expected to deliver the current demand. The post holder will be a core member of the skin cancer service and will attend and chair the fortnightly skin cancer MDT which also incorporates a specialist MDT. Specialist dermato-pathology is provided through Northwest London Pathology which is an NHS pathology joint venture partly owned by Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The pathology laboratory and pathologists are based at Hillingdon currently but are expected to move to a central laboratory at Charing Cross Hospital within a year.

The supporting professional activities include clinical and educational supervision, clinical governance, audit and personal CPD. Personal CPD must be included as part of annual appraisal which is mandatory and required for the revalidation process. The post holder would provide leadership for surgical dermatology. 1 SPA may be worked off site.

About us

The Hillingdon Hospital is a District General Hospital, located in West London, serving a population of approximately 240,000 people in the Borough of Hillingdon. It has 600 beds and it incorporates General Medicine, Care of the Elderly, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mental Health and has a very busy Accident and Emergency Department. Hillingdon is situated within the M25, only 18 miles away from central London and within easy reach of the main motorway networks and major airports.

The Hillingdon Hospital has merged its acute services with Mount Vernon Hospital with inpatient acute medical services located at the Hillingdon site while maintaining medical outpatient clinics, day care and elderly rehabilitation at Mount Vernon.