This is an exciting new opportunity for a breast consultant to support with the provision of local breast services at both Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Due to the growing demand of the service, we welcome candidates who wish to become part of a fast paced team focused on improving, developing and supporting breast diagnostic and treatment pathways for our patients. Candidates who have previous breast experience, or a desire to specialise in breast services, are welcomed to apply.
The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Breast Unit provides comprehensive breast care management as a secondary and tertiary provider. The Trust carries out primary breast procedures, reconstructions, revision and complex surgery for the 600+ new cancers we diagnose and treat each year. An open access follow up programme has been well established and new innovative research opportunities supported.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.
We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Breast Unit maintains an active research programme, recruiting patients to NIHR portfolio trials as well as running novel research projects and clinical trials collaborating with The University of Kent at Canterbury, Imperial College London and Warwick Clinical Trials Unit.
The 5 substantive breast consultants offer a full repertoire of breast procedures including advanced breast conservation and reconstructive breast surgery.
The time commitment will be approximately 10 PAs per week, made up of 8.5 DPAs and 1.5 SPAs. SPA time can be used for activities supporting research, professional development, and the service, which include teaching, audit, mandatory training and additional responsibilities.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025