Locum Consultant in Dermatology

Overview

The post holder will have responsibility for providing a Dermatology service in conjunction with consultant colleagues. This is a 23 Month Fixed Term post 1.0

WTE covering 10PA's at the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust working at St Lukes Hospital covering 5 days per week Monday to Friday. The duties outlined below are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service. The post holder will be expected to undertake the following duties:

• To provide outpatient clinic and procedure lists for inflammatory skin disease and skin cancer patients in the adult and paediatric population.
• To be an active member of the skin cancer multidisciplinary team, with regular attendance at the alternate week MDT meetings.
• To provide support, training and governance to nurses and any junior medical staff in the team. Support for local GPSI, GPs in training and students from regional hospitals is also anticipated.
• To provide a comprehensive Dermatology service, in collaboration with other Dermatologists, including inpatient care and referrals, outpatient referrals and treatment and telephone or electronic advice and guidance to local GPs.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of only two teaching hospital trusts in West Yorkshire and has a turnover in excess of £400m per annum and employs over 6,400 staff. The Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive range of acute services, supported by an extensive community service offer, offering a range of care provision to almost all patients.

We have two main hospital sites:
Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital. Maternity Services are centralised at the maternity unit on the Bradford Royal Infirmary site which includes our neonatal unit. The main theatres and emergency admissions are located at Bradford Royal Infirmary while St Luke's Hospital provides a large outpatient facility and wards for therapy and rehabilitation. In 2021/22 our Trust services delivered 5,525 babies, performed 13,102 operations in theatre and handled 423,154 outpatient appointments.

We had 108,503 attendances at our Emergency Department.