• Job Description

  Req#: C9409-25-0574?language=en&page=350&sort=publicationDateDesc

  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

  Details

  Date posted

  01 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Hospital medical and dental staff

  Grade

  Doctor - other

  Salary

  £61,825 a year per annum

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  409-7102156

  Job locations

  Whiston Hospital

  Warrington Road

  Prescot

  L35 5DR

  
  

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  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).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

  Address

  Whiston Hospital

  Warrington Road

  Prescot

  L35 5DR

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

  Address

  Whiston Hospital

  Warrington Road

  Prescot

  L35 5DR

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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