Job summary
- Main area
- Dermatology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (Mon- Fri)
- Job ref
- 179-7157878-MSC
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Bury St. Edmunds
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Pro Rata Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/08/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Dermatologist - 10PA's
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Applications are invited for a 10 PA Consultant Dermatologist to join an existing team of five Consultants at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Dermatologist to work with a strong team to provide a clinical dermatology service for West Suffolk. The post is a replacement role. The post is primarily for the provision of out-patient services in general and tumour dermatology in West Suffolk Hospital.
Interviews will take place on Thursday the 14th of August 2024
Please read the Job Description and Person Specification attached for full details.
Main duties of the job
- Urgent Suspect Cancer clinics one to two a month.
- Local anaesthetic surgery, one to two lists a week.
- To participate in the provision of the teledermatology service.
- To share with colleagues the provision of dermatology advice to medical and surgical inpatients. To participate in the ward referral rota once to twice weekly with cover for colleague as needed.
- To share in supervision and give clinical advice to dermatology specialist nurses, andclinical assistants and Addenbrookes SpRs who do a clinic once a week.
Please read the Job Description and Person Specification attached for full details.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Dermatology Department is based at West Suffolk Hospital but provides peripheral clinics to the surrounding towns of Thetford and Sudbury.
The appointee will work closely with the Dermatology Consultants already in post as well as the Clinical Nurse Specialists.
The specialist nurses share care for patients with chronic disease on second-line treatment. They provide pre-treatment counselling for systemic and biologic treatments and see new patients with acne and psoriasis. Our skin cancer specialist nurse team provides support and counselling for tumour patients.
Surgical cases are carried out in the Day Surgery Unit or Out-patient theatre under local anaesthetic. The list size depends on the case mix. The complexity of cases will be decided by the post-holder. Surgical treatment of benign lesions is restricted, as per guidelines issued by the local ICB. West Suffolk Hospital has a plastic surgery service with four consultant plastic surgeons in post, with whom the dermatology team work closely as part of the skin cancer LSMDT. The skin cancer SSMDT is overseen by the team at Addenbrookes.
Paediatric dermatology is run in close cooperation with the paediatricians in the Rainbow outpatient clinic in the Children’s unit. Children are admitted under the paediatricians and emergency referrals for children as inpatients are as per shared rota. We have support from our paediatricians who help with eczema follow up and skin prick testing/allergen advice. We have close links with the paediatric dermatology unit/plastic surgery in Addenbrookes hospital and tertiary referrals are sent to Great Ormond Street children’s hospital.
The Phototherapy Unit has facilities for narrow-band UVB.
Please read the Job Description and Person Specification attached for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Entry on the GMC specialist register in Dermatology or be eligible for entry (within six months of attaining Certificate of Completion of Training) at the time of interview and hold a licence to practice
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- MD or PhD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Dermatology
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Experience in management of Dermatology in-patient and out-patient medicine
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full spectrum of Dermatology patients
Desirable criteria
- Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR training programme or equivalent
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the dermatology service
- Ability to organise and manage a Dermatology service.
- Ability to manage and lead members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of audit management
- Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
- All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following:- - PLAB 1 - PLAB 2 If applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills, but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence.
Desirable criteria
- 5 years supervised training in an appropriate equivalent programme SpR training
Management & Audit Training
Essential criteria
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of the Dermatology service
- Ability to organise and manage day to day service delivery e.g. out-patient priorities
- Ability to manage and lead strategic developments in service delivery
- Experience of audit management
- Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance framework and targets
Personal Skills & Qualities
Essential criteria
- The ability to work as a team member
- Acceptance of management and administrative duties by working within a structured hospital team for the greater good
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
- Has ability to travel to rural locations
Special Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Capacity to accept full responsibility to lead a clinical team
- To teach and train all human resources from a wide spectrum of skills, background, abilities and experience
Teaching Training and
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising F1s, F2s and SpRs
- Ability to teach clinical skills
- Experience of workplace- based assessment
- Experience in developing and delivering undergraduate teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching basic clinic skills to undergraduates
- Ability to supervise postgraduate research
Research & Publications
Essential criteria
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
Desirable criteria
- Ability to supervise research projects
Clinical Governance
Essential criteria
- To have a broad understanding of all elements of, and a commitment to the principles of Clinical Governance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lis Fraser-Andrews
- Job title
- Consultant Dermatologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01284 713115
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