Specialty Doctor

4 days ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time
This is an exciting new opportunity for a breast specialty doctor to support with the provision of local breast services at both Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Due to the growing demand of the service, we welcome candidates who wish to become part of a fast paced team focused on improving, developing and supporting breast diagnostic and treatment pathways for our patients. Candidates who have previous breast experience, or a desire to specialise in breast services, are welcomed to apply.

The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Breast Unit provides comprehensive breast care management as a secondary and tertiary provider. The Trust carries out primary breast procedures, reconstructions, revision and complex surgery for the 600+ new cancers we diagnose and treat each year. An open access follow up programme has been well established and new innovative research opportunities supported.

Main duties of the job

The post will be supervised and responsible to the Lead Clinician, Deepika Akolekar. The post holder will be required to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstance and to be available for such irregular outside normal rota duties.

The post holder will be required to deputise from time to time for absent colleagues.

About us

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Job description
Job responsibilities

To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility.

To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.

To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trusts patients.

To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
MB BS (or equivalent) Registered with GMC Desirable
Distinctions, scholarships, prizes Experience
Essential
Previous Breast Surgery experience at middle grade level Desirable
Experience in breast oncological surgical treatment Audit
Essential
Understands principles of audit and can demonstrate participation in an audit. Desirable
Evidence of application of audit outcomes Personal skills
Essential
Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations Able to get on with other members of the multi disciplinary team Desirable
Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition Management
Essential
Evidence of organisational ability An interest in teaching and education

Employer details
Employer name

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Address

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells

Maidstone

ME16 9QQ

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