Consultant Plastic Surgeon (12 months fixed term)

Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora – Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District

Location:  Hutt Hospital & Regional Clinics

Service:   Plastic Surgery

Contract:  12 months fixed term, 0.6 FTE - 1 FTE

Salary:      As per ASMS SECA

Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role

We are looking for a Consultant Plastic Surgeon to join our Hutt Hospital team.

This role is a fixed term appointment to support the plastic surgery service to cover parental leave and while we await the commencement of permanent appointments. The role will have a general focus with potential for subspecialty interest to be accommodated (FTE and service needs permitting).

The monthly timetable will include subspecialty clinics in skin, including “see and treat” clinics, as well as clinics to support the general plastic surgery work load. There will be a requirement to attend a monthly out of town clinic in a regional hospital (see below for regions).

Operative access for elective care would be balanced with planned acute lists and contribute to the on call roster (currently 1:10) and the developing surgeon of the day model of care. Operating lists will be distributed across main theatres and the newly opened local anaesthetic procedure suite.

The individual will support and lead junior medical staff, take an active role in interdisciplinary team education, participate in a bi-monthly burns MDT, and actively support and utilise nurse specialist role/s as appropriate. They will actively participate in quality improvement, clinical audit activities and service development meetings and initiatives. 

Mō tō mātou rōpū – About our team

The Wellington Regional Plastic Maxillo-Facial and Burn Service is based in Lower Hutt, Wellington, and provides regional services to the Capital and Coast, Wairarapa, Mid Central, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson/Marlborough and Whanganui areas, servicing a population of over 1 million people. The Service delivers outreach clinics in each of these areas to improve access for patients across the region. The service currently comprises around 12 plastic surgery consultants and 12 junior doctors of varying grades.

Hutt Hospital hosts the central region’s Regional Burns Unit, one of three regional units (alongside Waikato and Christchurch) which work with the National Burns Centre in Middlemore, Auckland to deliver a National Burns Service.  Pathways are in place to move patients between the national and regional units depending on patient complexity and national demand.

Moū – About you

• Vocationally registered in Plastic Surgery with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) or eligible for specialist registration with MCNZ
• FRACS or equivalent qualification and be able to register for with the MCNZ
• Interest and recent experience in all aspects of general plastic surgery
• Work effectively in collaboration with multidisciplinary team
• Able to provide consistently high standards of medical care

E pā ana ki a tatou – About us

Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley district is located centrally in Wellington and has over 6,000 full-time equivalent staff, making us one of the major employers in the Wellington region. We operate three hospitals – Wellington Regional Hospital in Newtown, Hutt Valley Hospital and Kenepuru Hospital in Porirua – as well as the Kāpiti Health Centre at Paraparaumu.

Here at Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability and religions. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.

Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District is a pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply

Click the apply now button to send your application directly to us. For further information on this role please email sandra.tam@ccdhb.org.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number in the subject line.

We are not accepting recruitment agency’s applications.

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