Locum Consultant in Cleft Lip & Palate Surgery

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This is a 10PA locum appointment for a Consultant Surgeon with special interests in Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery. This post will be available from March 2026 for a period of 6 months. /p pThis post will deliver PA10s supporting the Cleft Lip and Palate team (Mr William Breakey). The post-holder will provide a tertiary Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery clinics across the region.

/p pThe post will be based at Leeds General Infirmary.

pThe successful applicant should possess CCST in a recognised cleft surgical specialty or equivalent, and should be on the Specialist Register or within six months of being admitted to the Register for trainees if currently in a training programme within the UK, or have references which have been authorised by the Deputy Medical Director and Clinical Director.

pApplicants should have established skills in primary and secondary cleft lip and palate surgery in children and adults. Excellent communication and team working skills, a strong commitment to teaching and service development are essential.

pConsideration will be given to applicants who wish to work full or part time and those wishing to job share. Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit the hospital, which can be arranged by contacting:

pMr William Breakey, Consultant Surgeon, Consultant in Cleft, Lip, Palate – Tel:

pDr Samantha Calladine, Acting Lead Clinician & Lead Specialist Speech and Language Therapist – Tel:

ain duties of the job  pThe Cleft Lip and Palate Service based at Leeds General Infirmary provides all aspects of multidisciplinary cleft care and management across the Yorkshire regional network.

Whilst all cleft surgery is undertaken in Leeds at the General Infirmary, other aspects of cleft care are provided on a hub‑and‑spoke basis with regular network multidisciplinary clinics in Bradford, York, Wakefield and Hull, as well as in Leeds. The appointee to this new substantive post will work in conjunction with the incumbent cleft surgeon who has reduced clinical activities to a part‑time basis.

The post is available immediately, however it is expected that the successful applicant will take up this post within 2‑3 months of appointment.

pThe service is fully staffed by all members of a cleft multidisciplinary team and is supported by a cleft administrative team including Cleft Co‑ordinator and Audit Administrator. The team enjoys good relations and mutual support with colleagues in Newcastle.

bout us  pLeeds Children’s Hospital Childrens Services in Leeds has 280 inpatient beds. The Clinical Service Unit employs a total of 80 consultants, 56 of whom are Paediatricians providing general, specialist and community children’s medical and surgical services.

pFollowing a review of Trust‑wide acute hospital services, the centralisation of Children’s inpatient services was completed in 2010 on the Leeds General Infirmary site.

pLeeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying ‘at risk’ members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

ob description  ob responsibilities  . OBJECTIVES OF THE POST  ul

To deliver care to patients with cleft lip and/or palate and non‑cleft velopharyngeal incompetence within the Regional Cleft Lip and Palate Service based at Leeds General Infirmary.

Out‑patient clinics

Supervision of patients

Care of Plastic Surgery in‑patients on a 1:13 rota

Contribute to Specialist Multi‑disciplinary team meetings

Provision of primary surgical repair for children born with cleft lip and/or palate including cleft lip repair, cleft palate repair and alveolar bone grafting

Provision of secondary cleft surgery in children including surgical management of cleft and non‑cleft velopharyngeal incompetence, revisional lip and palate surgery

Provision of cleft lip and palate surgery in adult patients (all aspects of revisional cleft lip and palate…