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Job role: Locum Consultant in Vascular Surgery
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: C9298-MED-830
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About the Job:
The appointed consultant will take up a new post within the network. Their objective will be to work collaboratively with the wider team of vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists to develop Leeds as a centre of excellence for vascular surgery in the fields of: Clinical Service & Care Teaching & Training Research & Innovation Clinical Service & Care
- They will contribute to the provision of emergency and urgent care of patients with vascular and traumatic disease.
- They will work with colleagues to strive to achieve the GIRFT timescales and other key national waiting time standards.
- In particular, they will work collaboratively with the established multi-disciplinary diabetic limb salvage service.
- The Leeds Diabetes Limb Salvage Service is amongst the largest and most progressive in the country, and includes podiatrists, orthotists, diabetologists, diabetic nurses and vascular surgeons to enable holistic management of the patient with a diabetic foot problem.
- The Chronic Limb Threatening Ischaemia service includes dedicated CLTI clinics, a CLTI MDT and CLTI Vascular Nurse Specialist as well as a virtual ward.
- LVI provides complex open and endovascular aortic interventions for patients from across West Yorkshire with a dedicated aortic clinic and MDT.
- They will participate in a 1:10 consultant first on-call rota to provide emergency out-of-hours vascular surgery to the Trust with an additional 1 in 10 second on-call rota at weekends (see section 5 for more rota details).
- They may also provide emergency resuscitative surgical care within the Major Trauma Centre (MTC).
- The current vascular consultants provide emergency resuscitative surgery within the Major Trauma Centre. It is recognised that outside London this is an unusual arrangement but one very much valued by the team as an opportunity to provide great care and a rewarding professional activity.
It is recognised that not all applicants may feel that they have the required skills and experience to undertake this role. However, it is the opinion of the team that a qualified and competent vascular surgeon does indeed have the basic skill set and would look to support the applicant through in house training, mentorship and potentially education at other centres (UK & abroad) to gain the confidence and experience desired
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