Consultant Plastic Surgeon

Location: Predominantly at Hutt Hospital, but will also work in hospitals across the district, including clinics at regional hospitals

Service:    Plastic Surgery

Contract:  Permanent, part/full time 0.8 FTE - 1FTE

Salary:      As per ASMS SECA

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About the role

This role is a permanent appointment to the plastic surgery service. As well as a general plastic surgery focus, the role will provide subspecialty expertise in management of vascular anomalies and cleft lip and palate.

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.

About the Team/Service/ Location

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.

The service provides high quality care to plastic surgical patients with a wide range of acute and elective surgical conditions. A wide range of plastic surgical procedures are provided either on site or at other hospitals, with an emphasis on providing increased access for seeing and treating patients with skin cancer.

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.

Consultants currently provide a 1:10 surgical on call roster and the service is implementing a new surgeon of the day model. An exciting opportunity exists with the new multidisciplinary local anaesthetic procedure suite to provide more consultant-led local anaesthetic hand and skin surgery.

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.

About you

• Vocationally registered in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ)
• FRACS or equivalent qualification and be able to register for vocational registration with the MCNZ
• Interest and recent experience in all aspects of general plastic surgery, and is able to deal with a wide range of conditions, both acutely and electively
• Subspecialty expertise in the management of vascular anomalies and cleft lip and palate
• Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary team
• Relevant experience and training

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How to apply

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If you have any questions about the role, please email sandra.tam@ccdhb.org.nz

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