Introduction Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is pleased to announce two MYDOC Research Registrar posts in Burns and Plastic Surgery. These posts offer an exciting opportunity for the post holders to combine clinical and academic roles and are aimed at doctors who are passionate about plastic surgery and wish to step up to registrar level clinical duties and build their portfolios for ST3 applications. These posts are not a recognised UK training post. Nevertheless, our MYDoc doctors will have a named supervisor and be supported in undertaking scheduled educational opportunities to consolidate and develop their portfolios, with certificated outcomes to support career progression through deanery or other routes. An Introduction to the Division/Specialty An opportunity has arisen for two dynamic and motivated doctors to join our Plastic Surgery Department. The post holders may be offered an extension provided satisfactory progress based on research output, consultant feedback and documented progress on ISCP portfolio. The post holders will be expected to divide their working time equally between research and clinical duties. We will endeavour to tailor the post to allow necessary competences, required for national selection at ST3 level, to be achieved. The department of Burns and Plastic Surgery at Pinderfields Hospital provides a wide range of elective and 24-hour emergency services to a population of approximately 500,000, drawn from Wakefield, Dewsbury, Pontefract, and surrounding areas. The Plastic surgery department, regional burns centre for adults and paediatric burns unit are situated on the Pinderfields site with outpatient and day-case services at Pontefract Hospital and Dewsbury Hospital. We also have dedicated hand therapy services at all three hospital sites and plastic surgery dressings clinic at Pinderfields Hospital. Our adult burns, general plastic surgery ward, hand therapy unit and plastic surgery dressings clinic are all co-located on the same floor. Currently we have a team of 13 full-time consultants and 2 part-time consultants. We have 2 new consultants starting this year. Our resident staff include: 3 FY2, 1 Deanery CST, 6 trust rotational CST, 5 NTN, 1 trust grade registrar and 2 research registrars. We also have senior post FRCS hand fellow. We have dedicated extended role hand therapists, dermatology and breast care nurse specialists. Our spheres of interest include hand surgery, breast reconstruction, skin cancer, paediatric plastic surgery, perineal reconstruction and acute and reconstructive surgery for burns. Hand Surgery Hand trauma including soft tissue injury and fracture fixation Dupuytrens Nerve compression syndromes Osteo and Rheumatoid arthritis of the hand and wrist. Congenital (Paediatric) Plastic Surgery Congenital ear deformities including prominent ears Congenital skin lesions Skin cancer Non-melanoma skin cancer (eg BCC, SCC, others) Melanoma Breast Surgery Breast reduction Gynaecomastia Mastopexy Nipple tattooing Breast asymmetry Breast reconstruction including ADM, LD flaps and DIEP flaps and symmetrising procedures Other Cross-Specialty Surgery Pressure sores Perineal reconstruction Lower limb reconstruction Our service is accessed by 19 emergency departments, in an area of around 3,000 square miles.Our service is accessed by 19 emergency departments, in an area of around 3,000 square miles.Our service is accessed by 19 emergency departments, in an area of around 3,000 square miles.Our service is accessed by 19 emergency departments, in an area of around 3,000 square miles. Our burns service serves a population of approximately 3.5 million people across West, North and East Yorkshire, and North Lincolnshire. Our service is accessed by 19 emergency departments, in an area of around 3,000 square miles. We treat over 180 adult and 200 paediatric in-patients burns injuries every year. In addition, we provide out-patient and outreach services to over 1000 patients annually. We have a team of burns specialist staff including surgeons, anaesthetists, microbiologists, dieticians, psychologists, outreach sisters, play, occupational and physiotherapists. We have Burns MDT meetings every Monday and Friday mornings. Our MDT scar clinics take place at Pinderfields Hospital and are a combination face to face and telemedicine clinics. We are now the only plastic surgery department in the region to provide burns centre care for adults. We are also responsible for providing our regional NTN specialist registrars with the required level of burns experience and training. We treat both elective and acute hand pathology in Mid-Yorkshire. We manage a high-volume of hand fractures. We have 10-11 dedicated consultant delivered hand trauma lists a week, providing an excellent opportunity for trainees to receive the highest quality of operative hand surgery training. We hold a hand surgery MDT every six weeks which is attended by all therapy staff, hand consultants and trainees. We also have a day-time trauma consultant of the week who supports a full resident trauma on call team made up of and FY2 or CT trainee and an on call registrar. We have a separate weekday, daytime burns on call team. We have a dedicated plastic surgery ambulatory assessment unit with a treatment room for minor hand trauma procedures. We are passionate about teaching and training. We have a weekly departmental teaching programme consisting of in-house presentations and invited external speakers. Our departmental CEPOD half day meetings are held monthly and are an excellent setting to learn and present audits/QIPs. The Trust has established strong links with Leeds medical school, therefore during term time we can have 2 to 4 medical students attached to our department at any one time. We regularly have core trainees attending for 1-2 week placements with our burns service. We also have visiting surgeons at all levels of training throughout the year. A number of our consultants are conveners and faculty members for local and national courses. We regularly undertake clinical and viva practice for FRCS (Plast) candidates and run simulation workshops for our trainees, such as suturing, skin grafting, tendon repair and fracture fixation. We encourage our trainees to actively participate and be involved in the organisation of multiple courses aimed at sixth formers all the wayup to senior trainees. This provides an excellent opportunity for trainees to develop the teaching and training components of their portfolios. We are keen to tailor training to individual needs. Over the last 9 years, we have had 10 research fellows. Our fellows and Trust grade registrars have secured National Training Numbers at national selections. We are proud to have research collaborations with the University of Bradford and Huddersfield University. We hope to encourage more trainees to undertake a period of supervised research potentially leading to a higher degree. Our departmental ethos is to promote high quality, patient centred care in burns and plastic surgery through education, training and research in an environment that is supportive, inclusive, and forward thinking. During the appointment the Research Fellows will undertake both clinical and research work. The post holders will be required to develop clinical audit and research projects ultimately aiming for national and international presentations, publications and potentially a higher degree. You will be supervised by a Consultant Plastic Surgeon throughout your tenure. The Service Role These posts are a job share position between 2 research fellows. From a clinical perspective this post will participate in the cross site STR/Registrar rota. This rota is compliant with the 2016 resident doctor contract averaging 48 hours per week. The post holders will be expected to divide their working month equally between research work and clinical duties. Our current research fellows undertake full-time clinical duties one week followed by one week of full-time research. We envisage this pattern of working to continue with our new research registrars. Role of the Research Fellows: To adhere to good medical practice To maintain high clinical standards To provide: - Commitment to perform research potentially leading to a higher research degree - Six weeks notification of study/annual leave - Prospective cover for sick/annual/study leave - Three months notice to terminate employment Key Research Responsibilities: The post holder will be required to develop a clinical research project. We have several projects in burns and plastic surgery that can be developed depending on the post-holders interests. In addition, they will be required to collect and analyse data and report the results in peer-reviewed journals. In summary this will involve: planning and carrying out research in accordance with the project aims maintaining good research practice attending relevant courses accurate record keeping gathering and interpreting the results writing reports and manuscripts for presentation and publication organising and chairing monthly departmental research meeting coordinating departmental audit and research activity The main clinical duties of the post will include: Work at registrar level during the clinical part of this post. Please apply early to avoid disappointment as if we receive sufficient suitable applications the vacancy may close earlier than advertised.