Senior Clinical Fellow in Burns and Plastic Surgery

To assist Consultants and Specialty Doctors with patient management. The successful candidate will assist with the day to day running of the service and to supervise, help and instruct the junior doctors as part of the team. The successful post holder will be expected to assist and manage the ward patients as well as taking referrals from ED and other departments. Duties will include at outpatient clinics and operating lists, attendance on other departmental activities e.g., Audit M&M meetings. The successful applicant will participate in the on-call rota.

Audit and Education

The hospital has a clearly defined programme of medical audit to which the appointee will be expected to contribute. All specialities spend one half day per month on audit and clinical governance. This occurs at the same time for all specialties, allowing an exchange of views between specialties and encourages multi-disciplinary audit. The audit NHD occurs on a different half day each month, rotating from Tuesday morning to Thursday afternoon.

The hospital has a weekly grand round held in the Postgraduate Centre on Tuesday lunchtime. All disciplines take part on a rotational basis. The Centre has a purpose-built lecture theatre, 3 seminar rooms and a library, including electronic databases and internet access. There is a varied programme of lectures and seminars and sub-specialty educational meetings.

The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated surgeon to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary care both from the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery unit based at Whiston Hospital., Disability Confident
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Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the leading acute Trusts in the North West of England. We provide a full range of acute adult and paediatric in-patient, out-patient, day case and emergency services to the local communities of St Helens, Knowsley, Cheshire and Merseyside and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and the Isle of Man.

The Trust has excellent management, robust systems and innovative processes all of which have underpinned a period of sustained and improved performance with a recent CQC rating of outstanding., From 1stJuly we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.

The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.

Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:

• CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate


• SAFETY that is of the highest standards


• COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful


• SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable


• PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients


Our achievements include:

• Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018


• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)


• Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme


Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.

This post will provide the successful applicant with especially good exposure to Burns in a Regional Burns Centre with a catchment area of over 6 million in population, and in a department which has an international reputation in publishing including journal editorships and a number of key textbooks. The role provides numerous opportunities for the successful candidate to enhance their clinical skills and have clinical exposure in a wide range of other 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.

The Work of the Directorate

The Mersey Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery Unit comprises of a 28 bedded ward (including 12 en-suite cubicles), a plastic surgery trauma unit, prosthetics department and medical photography department. The separate burn ward has 12 beds and is near critical care and the burn theatre. The unit has 3 theatres for plastic surgery, 1 for burns and 1 for day case skin work on the Whiston site. There are 6 day case theatre sessions per week in the main theatre suite on the St Helens site and a Plastic Surgery Day Case Unit (PSDU) on the St Helens site. The Mohs Suite is also situated within PSDU. The Whiston hospital site houses most other surgical and medical specialities occasionally needed by plastic surgical patients. We have excellent pathological and radiological departments on site with recently enhanced MRI facilities.