Locum Consultant - Vascular

Job summary

To provide a full general and specialised vascular service, including elective and emergency surgery for the vascular network across Surrey, NE Hampshire and E Berkshire.

The post holder will be expected to provide a general, broad base of vascular and endo-vascular service. It is expected that the post holder will be an active member of the local and network MDTs and will be expected to work at any of the spoke hospitals when required, where they will receive honorary contracts.

Please refer to job description and person specification for more information

Main duties of the job

This position has mentoring facilitated inclusive of out of hours cover provided by two senior clinicians making job plan changes to accommodate this on call.

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About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to provide a general, broad base of vascular and endo-vascular service. It is expected that the post holder will be an active member of the local and network MDTs and will be expected to work at any of the spoke hospitals when required, where they will receive honorary contracts

Please refer to attached job description for further information.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• FRCS or equivalent registration
• Full GMC registration
• Possession of CCT (or equivalent) within six months of receipt at the date of interview
• Entry on Specialist register

Desirable

• Evidence of Research Activity or Higher Degree

Experience

Essential

• Understand the principles of Clinical Governance and demonstrate experience of evidence based practice
• oA wide grounding during training of all aspects of emergency and elective surgery within the speciality of Vascular Surgery
• oExperience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates and operative skills to trainee specialists

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• oAble to evaluate own clinical practice
• oAble to demonstrate innovative thinking
• oGood written and oral communication skills
• oAbility to organise and develop service provision computer literate - confident in using MS Office, Email and Internet

Desirable

• Computer literate - confident in using MS Office, Email and Internet