Job responsibilities 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.