Job summary
Fixed Term Post 12 months
Full Time - 40 Hours
No on calls
This post is for a Senior Clinical Fellow in Burns & Plastics Surgery. This is a whole-time fixed term post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Surgeon looking to progress their career in hand and upper limb surgery to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.
Main duties of the job
The principal purpose of the post is to provide an upper limb, trauma and general plastic surgical service to the population of Cheshire, Merseyside, West Lancashire, North Wales and the Isle of Man.
The post holder will play a full role in the management of the plastic surgery trauma workload, The role provides numerous opportunities for the successful candidate to enhance their clinical skills and have clinical exposure in a wide range of areas.
The Burns and Plastic surgery directorate is amongst the largest in the UK with 29 Consultant Plastic Surgeons. Duties will involve the full range of clinical, outpatient and operative experience.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Advertising date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 18th July 2025
Shortlisting date: 21st July 2025
Proposed Interview date: 6th August 2025
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Advertising date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 18th July 2025
Shortlisting date: 21st July 2025
Proposed Interview date: 6th August 2025
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Applicants must hold full registration with the GMC at the time of application
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualifications
- ATLS, Basic Surgical Skills, CCriSP, MRCS and Microsurgery or equivalent
- Training in Plastic or Orthopaedic Surgery at years 5 to 8
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience and an understanding of audit
- Evidence of active participation in audit
- Experience and an understanding of research
- Knowledge/experience of managing plastic surgery patients
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements
- Evidence of contributing to teaching and learning of others
Skills
Essential
- Experience of applying sound clinical knowledge and judgment and prioritise clinical need
- Experience technical competence/diagnostics skills and judgment required
- Communication skills, capacity to communicate effectively and sensitively to others, able to discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
- Validated logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
- Awareness of own limitations
- Judgement to work under pressure, capacity to work effectively under pressure and remain objective in highly emotive/pressurised situations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Applicants must hold full registration with the GMC at the time of application
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualifications
- ATLS, Basic Surgical Skills, CCriSP, MRCS and Microsurgery or equivalent
- Training in Plastic or Orthopaedic Surgery at years 5 to 8
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience and an understanding of audit
- Evidence of active participation in audit
- Experience and an understanding of research
- Knowledge/experience of managing plastic surgery patients
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements
- Evidence of contributing to teaching and learning of others
Skills
Essential
- Experience of applying sound clinical knowledge and judgment and prioritise clinical need
- Experience technical competence/diagnostics skills and judgment required
- Communication skills, capacity to communicate effectively and sensitively to others, able to discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
- Validated logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
- Awareness of own limitations
- Judgement to work under pressure, capacity to work effectively under pressure and remain objective in highly emotive/pressurised situations
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
