Job summary
- Main area
- Breast Surgery
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 275-0526BRESUR
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/07/2026
Employer heading
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Consultant
Job overview
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Division: Surgery and Aneasthetics
Care Group: Surgical Services
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum/pro rata
Interview date- 9th July 2026
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be required to undertake a minimum of one 360 appraisal in a five year period to comply with the Revalidation process and to participate fully in the annual job planning review
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The key areas for the post-holder will include:
- Contribute to the breast MDT and play an active part in the further modernisation and development of the service.
- Play a major role in maintaining the 28 day, 31 day and 62 days targets for cancer patients and ensuring that other targets are met.
- Assessment, care and treatment of patients presenting to the breast service.
- Provision of clinical leadership in the delivery of a high quality breast service.
- Providing teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level. A role in the teaching of medical students is expected.
- Participate in relevant audit and quality assurance processes, including reviews of manpower requirements.
- Be involved in research
- Abide by the clinical and corporate governance policies of the trust.
· All Consultants will be required to undertake a minimum of one 360 appraisal in a five year period to comply with the Revalidation process.
· The successful applicant will be expected to participate fully in the annual job planning review
· Trust has an established formal development programme for newly appointed consultants including a mentorship approach to settling down as a new consultant.
· There is a commitment from the trust and department to the appointee, that they will have equitable working conditions to their colleagues. Achieved through team job planning and the Medical Job Planning Consistency Committee.
Person specification
Experiance
Essential criteria
- Full registration with GMC and a licence to practise
- Entry on the GMC specialist register: (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview if it has not already been awarded).
- FRCS or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Sub-speciality training in breast surgery at level of the year 5 and 6 of the HST programme.
- Experience in oncoplastic and reconstruction breast surgery- preferable
- Sub-speciality training in breast surgery at level of the year 5 and 6 of the HST programme. Experience in oncoplastic and reconstruction breast surgery- preferable Clinical training and experience equivalent to that of gaining UK CSST.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Francesca Dunn
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 830000
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