Locum Consultant Burns and Plastics Surgeon

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Burns and Plastic Surgeon for one year. It is a full-time job, including on-call covering burns. The Post holder will join a team of surgeons who provide the service in both the pediatric burns center at Birmingham Children Hospital and adult burn centres at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be based at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. It is full time 10PA job. The successful applicants would also be expected to participate in a 1:7 on-call rota covering both the pediatric burns center Birmingham Children Hospital and the adult burns center at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

The appointee will join the burn surgery team and will have the opportunity to develop an interest in an area of general plastic surgery and /or laser therapy, along with their commitment to the burns service. It would be expected that the major responsibilities of the posts are to the burns service (paediatric and adult). These posts would be suitable for candidates who have completed higher surgical training who have a more specialist interest in the management of burns.

An honorary contract will be sought for the successful candidates, to allow regular sessions to be worked in the Adult Burn Centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

There is a regular teaching and audit commitment to the Specialist Trainees on the West Midlands Rotation and the new appointee will be expected to participate in the training of the SpR and junior trainees.

The appointee would be expected to take an active interest in conducting research as well as presenting and publishing relevant clinical findings and research results.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full registration with the General Medical Council GMC, with license to practice.
  • Completed FRCS(Plast) or European, Canadian or Australian board exams

Desirable

  • A postgraduate degree / research degree in burns related topics, such as PhD or MD is highly desirable.
  • Medical Laser Certificate / experience
  • EMSB
  • On the GMC Specialist Registration in Plastic Surgery. Or CCT in plastic surgery within 6 months at time of interview.

Special Knowledge/ Abilities/ and/or Experience

Essential

  • Recent wide experience in total burn care, at a senior level in the NHS including surgical and non-surgical management of complex and major burns, both acute care and long term reconstruction for children and adults

Desirable

  • Specialist burns fellowship (6 months) covering both adult and pediatric burns at post CCT/CESR level or at senior level post FRCS Plastic; or working as a consultant burns in the NHS.
  • Experience in general plastic surgery and/or laser therapy

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 7 August 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.