A Vacancy at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Applicants are invited to apply for the whole time position of Specialty Doctor with an interest in Skin Cancer and General Plastic Surgery.
10 PAs plus 1 additional PA (Total 11 PAs)
Permanent post
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated surgeon to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary care both from the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery unit based at Whiston Hospital.
Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the leading acute Trusts in the North West of England. We provide a full range of acute adult and paediatric in-patient, out-patient, day case and emergency services to the local communities of St Helens, Knowsley, Cheshire and Merseyside and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and the Isle of Man.
The Trust has excellent management, robust systems and innovative processes all of which have underpinned a period of sustained and improved performance with a recent CQC rating of outstanding.
The Trust is developing and expanding its services and driving the quality of patient care ever higher, ensuring that it has a healthy long term future and continues to thrive in the changing healthcare economy.
Our vision is to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time. To support us in this ambition, we enjoy close links with our leading universities, including the University of Liverpool, John Moore’s University and Edge Hill University, and we have specific strengths in education and training. To complement this, we also have strong research portfolios and host a number of professional units in medicine and surgery. We believe that staff engagement is an absolute priority and our strong leadership and development programmes, demonstrate how much we value our staff.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Advertising date: 4th March 2025
Closing date: 18th March 2025
Shortlisting date: 19th March 2025
Proposed Interview date: 2nd April 2025
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
For an informal discussion, or to arrange a visit, please contact Mr David Bell Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Clinical Director and Trauma Lead who can be contacted on 0151 430 1262.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Mar 2025
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