Dermatology GPwER

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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic General practitioner who will contribute to the provision and development of high quality Dermatology care for the Fylde coast population at Clifton Hospital in Lytham St Annes. Sessional commitments will include outpatient clinics, skin surgery, remote review of inpatients at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals at the request of consultant colleagues and weekly skin cancer multidisciplinary clinical meetings if appropriate.

The successful applicant will join a team of consultants, Speciality Doctors and GPwERs, supported by a team of experienced dermatology clinical nurse specialists, providing a comprehensive dermatology service.

We are a friendly, innovative and dynamic department. We want to offer all team members the opportunity to develop new skills, so that they can all contribute in a meaningful way to patient care and can find satisfaction and fulfilment in their work.

We provide a wide range of dermatology services from General, Patch Testing, Biologics, Phototherapy including a weekly Local Skin MDT.

This post holder will undertake new and follow up consultations of patients referred to the dermatology service by GPs in accordance with guidance from the established medical team. This will include diagnosis of the full range of dermatology conditions from both our 2 week waits cancer and general dermatology clinics and initiate and maintain medical and surgical treatments to the highest possible standard of care.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking a salaried position to be part of a friendly innovative team.

The Trust is highly active in clinical research. We are the highest recruiting centre for many clinical trials for commercial and non-commercial sponsors; and have recruited the first global, European and UK patients across a number of specialties. The Clinical Research Centre is the dedicated facility for use by researchers, where patients can participate in research. We have high calibre staff with long track records of being research active, staff who are enthusiastic to get involved in research for the first time and staff who support research through their role.

The successful applicant will join a team of Consultant Dermatologists, Speciality Doctors and GPwERs, supported by a team of experienced dermatology clinical nurse specialists, providing outpatient general dermatology clinics and minor surgery clinics. This role is for 2-4 PAs.