A Vacancy at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a 10 PA Consultant to work within its Craniofacial team. Applications are welcome to join a dynamic and motivated multidisciplinary department which provides both facial reconstruction and specialised Craniofacial services to its patients in North West London and nationally. The Department delivers inpatient and outpatient services to the Trust and works closely with the Plastic Surgery, ENT, Neurosurgical, and Oculoplastic teams to provide a successful and timely support service for patients with a range of benign and malignant conditions.
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts and depending our service needs, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date, we strongly advise to make an application asap. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within five weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
The clinical responsibilities of the successful candidate will include attending outpatient clinics, inpatient and day case theatre sessions, coordinating and attending the MDT meetings, doing ward rounds as well as participating in specialist activities such as the national neurofibromatosis service, West London skin cancer MDT and the Mohs reconstruction service.
There will be an out-of-hours on-call commitment in the post.
We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex – in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.
The team also comprises Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialist Registrars and Senior House Officers.
The unit at the Chelsea and Westminster manages and treats children and adults with all forms of facial deformity. The craniofacial service offers treatment for many forms of congenital and acquired conditions, as well cranio-maxillofacial trauma.
We have close links with the Department of Dermatology at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital led by Dr James Shelley and provide reconstruction for patients undergoing Moh’s micrographic surgery and complex facial skin malignancy. The Chelsea and Westminster is the lead centre of the SSMDT for skin cancer in North West London led by Dr Rishika Sinha.
Please refer to our detailed job description for more information
This advert closes on Friday 28 Mar 2025