Job Description

Applications are invited for a 10 PA Consultant Dermatologist to join an existing team of five Consultants at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds.



This is an exciting opportunity for a Dermatologist to work with a strong team to provide a clinical dermatology service for West Suffolk. The post is a replacement role. The post is primarily for the provision of out-patient services in general and tumour dermatology in West Suffolk Hospital.



Interviews will take place on Thursday the 14th of August 2024



Please read the and Person Specification attached for full details.



Urgent Suspect Cancer clinics one to two a month.



Local anaesthetic surgery, one to two lists a week.



To participate in the provision of the teledermatology service.



To share with colleagues the provision of dermatology advice to medical and surgical inpatients. To participate in the ward referral rota once to twice weekly with cover for colleague as needed.



To share in supervision and give clinical advice to dermatology specialist nurses, andclinical assistants and Addenbrookes SpRs who do a clinic once a week.



Please read the and Person Specification attached for full details.



#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community



We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.



The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.



Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.



We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.



With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.



We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.



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The Dermatology Department is based at West Suffolk Hospital but provides peripheral clinics to the surrounding towns of Thetford and Sudbury.



The appointee will work closely with the Dermatology Consultants already in post as well as the Clinical Nurse Specialists.



The specialist nurses share care for patients with chronic disease on second-line treatment. They provide pre-treatment counselling for systemic and biologic treatments and see new patients with acne and psoriasis. Our skin cancer specialist nurse team provides support and counselling for tumour patients.



Surgical cases are carried out in the Day Surgery Unit or Out-patient theatre under local anaesthetic. The list size depends on the case mix. The complexity of cases will be decided by the post-holder. Surgical treatment of benign lesions is restricted, as per guidelines issued by the local ICB. West Suffolk Hospital has a plastic surgery service with four consultant plastic surgeons in post, with whom the dermatology team work closely as part of the skin cancer LSMDT. The skin cancer SSMDT is overseen by the team at Addenbrookes.



Paediatric dermatology is run in close cooperation with the paediatricians in the Rainbow outpatient clinic in the Children's unit. Children are admitted under the paediatricians and emergency referrals for children as inpatients are as per shared rota. We have support from our paediatricians who help with eczema follow up and skin prick testing/allergen advice. We have close links with the paediatric dermatology unit/plastic surgery in Addenbrookes hospital and tertiary referrals are sent to Great Ormond Street children's hospital.

The Phototherapy Unit has facilities for narrow-band UVB.



Please read the and Person Specification attached for full details.