Consultant Dermatologist

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Job summary

The QEH Dermatology department is a busy but friendly and supportive environment. The team are dedicated to providing the highest standards of patient care. The successful candidate will work closely with a team of 5 substantive Consultants within the Dermatology service, as well as 3 Fellows, General Practitioners with Extended Roles (GPWERs), Clinical Nurse Specialists as well as a developed admin team.

Main duties of the job

– Provide high quality Dermatology care in out-patient clinics for adult and paediatric dermatology patients and perform high quality surgery within the appropriate level of competence.

– Participate in the Skin Cancer MDT

– Attend required CPD events regularly and the annual Cancer Peer Review meeting.

– Perform regular ward rounds with residents. There is no out of hours on call commitment but the Dermatology team are closely involved in the care of in-patients between 9-5pm.

– Provide tele dermatology review for the relevant referrals.

– Provide high quality support and teaching to GP colleagues in hospital and community.

– Provide leadership to the department, encouraging development of services with colleagues both in and outside the trust.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Medical degree (MBBS or equivalent)
  • Full and Specialist registration (with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
  • UK-trained applicants must hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview
  • Non-UK trained applicants must show evidence of equivalence to UK CCT and be on the GMC Specialist Register or applying via CESR

Programme Delivery

Essential

  • Strong commitment to delivering change and high performance through effective collaboration with management and clinical teams
  • Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
  • Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
  • Experience in conducting and supporting audits, improvement and service transformation projects

Desirable

  • Knowledge of national targets linked to the NHS performance
  • Experience using clinical data, benchmarking, and audit findings to drive improvements and reduce unwarranted variation.

Clinical Audit

Essential

  • Active audit interest demonstrated by at least one completed clinical audit in the last 12 months.
  • Understanding of NHS systems and audit processes
  • Evidence of service improvement projects and audits

Desirable

  • Publication of audit results.
  • Evidence of embedding governance processes to monitor outcomes, safety, and service performance.

Teaching Experience

Essential

  • Experience and interest in undergraduate teaching
  • Skill and ability in formal and informal teaching for both under/postgraduate students and nursing/midwifery staff
  • Educational supervision accreditation

Desirable

  • An understanding of current issues in medical education and training
  • Previous experience in trainee Supervision
  • Higher teaching qualification
  • Presentations at National or International meetings
  • Publications in peer reviewed journals

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

  • Understands the management structure of the NHS

IT skills

Essential

  • Ability to use Microsoft office packages, e.g. MS Word, Excel, Access & PowerPoint.
  • Ability to use patient information systems

clinical Experience

Essential

  • Comprehensive Training and experience in Dermatology

Desirable

  • Broad experience of working within the NHS

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

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