Locum Consultant in Transplant Surgeon
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- £105,504 to £139,882 Per annum
- Closing date
- 23 Nov 2024
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- Profession
- Specialist doctor, General surgery, Locum Doctor
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract Type
- Fixed Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Applications are invited for a fixed term locum appointment in Renal and Pancreas Transplant Surgery commencing early in 2025. This post is based at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The Department of Renal and Pancreas Transplantation is the largest unit in the country and is looking to appoint a locum consultant to join our team to cover for a sabbatical. The post will focus on delivering pancreatic and renal (both live and deceased) transplantation, vascular access surgery, and provide input to the organ retrieval (NORS) service. There will be an opportunity to shape the post around clinical interests to aid in excellence in service delivery and to support career development.
Manchester Royal Infirmary provides kidney and pancreas transplantation, encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) surgery and islet transplantation.
In addition, there is a large service of General and endocrine surgery and we are also part of the National Organ Retrieval Service. Our transplant programme cares for both adults and children. The department has 10 consultants and 15 middle grades and is part of the Urology, Renal and Transplant (URT) Clinical Service Unit (CSU). This appointment offers an excellent opportunity for candidates to contribute to the service, including consultant on calls, with scheduled emergency lists and elective opportunities, all with ample mentorship and support within a collegiate environment, with an opportunity to develop skills.
Main duties of the job
We are passionate about providing first-class care to our patients and focused on delivering treatment in a quality and timely manner. We are recruiting to the position of Locum Consultant Transplant Surgeon to join our team of clinicians for twelve months.
This is an excellent opportunity to work in a friendly and growing kidney transplant unit. We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed consultant colleague who will work effectively within the team and contribute to the further development of the unit. The appointee will join the other nine Consultant Surgeons in a joint multidisciplinary, multi-professional Transplant team at Manchester University Hospital Foundation Trust.
A surgical subspecialty interest of paediatric renal transplantation and/or endocrine surgery would be welcome but not essential. Applicants should be on the GMC's specialist register for General Surgery or b e within six months of receiving a CCT at the time of interview and have a current and broad experience of general, transplant and renal access surgery For more details about the post, or to arrange an informal visit please contact Zia Moinuddin, Clinical Lead for Renal Transplantation and Consultant Transplant and General Surgeon on 01612763647.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Person Specification
Essential registrations
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC
- Registered on the GMC specialist register (or be within 6 months of CTT date, from the date of interview)
Qualifications and training
Essential
- MBChb or equivalent
- FRCS or equivalent
- Broad experience of Renal Transplant Surgery
- Experience in all forms of access surgery
- Experience in Renal and Pancreatic retrieval
- Completion of higher specialist training in surgery (or within 6 months of CTT date, from date of interview)
Desirable
- Higher degree (MD, ChM/PHD)
- Experience in Live Donor surgery
- Experience in Paediatric transplantation
- Experience of Endocrine surgery
Teaching and audit
Essential
- Experience of audit
- Teaching/supervision of junior medical staff
Desirable
- Teaching/supervision of medical students
Interpersonal skills
Essential
- Good organisation skills
- Good communication skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to liaise effectively with patients, relatives and MDT Other
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