Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon

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We wish to appoint a suitably experienced and motivated candidate to join our Breast Team.  Currently we have five breast surgeons (four surgeons have a special interest in oncoplastic breast surgery).  The successful candidate will have a special interest in breast and oncoplastic surgery.  

Along with the Consultants the team has two Specialty Doctors, one Speciality Trainee (Deanery), two Trust Clinical Fellows, one FY2 and two FY1 Trainees.  There is a Consultant Nurse and five Breast Care Nurses.

As a tertiary cancer centre, the breast team treat circa 500 new breast cancers per annum, participate in the Breast Screening Service and carry out approximately 180 oncoplastic procedures per year.

Apart from routine breast operations and sentinel node biopsy we perform a wide range of oncoplastic procedures. These include therapeutic mammoplasty including contralateral breast reduction, lipomodelling, Skin and nipple sparing mastectomy, skin reducing mastectomy, Implant based immediate breast reconstruction including use of acellular dermal matrix and Extended Latissimus dorsi flap reconstruction and perforator flaps (e.g. LICAP flap).

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Specific

• The management of inpatients and outpatients, both elective and emergency.  The successful candidate will participate in the rota for dealing with breast emergencies.
• Deliver the breast service provided to patients in Wolverhampton and its environs.
• Participating in multi-disciplinary team meetings and clinical audit specific to Breast Surgery.
• To further develop the Breast service within the Trust and work closely with other relevant teams including Radiology, Pathology and Oncology.

Take an active role in teaching undergraduate students.  Currently this involves 3^rd and 5^th year students.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.