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Job overview

This is an exciting new opportunity for a breast specialty doctor to support with the provision of local breast services at both Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Due to the growing demand of the service, we welcome candidates who wish to become part of a fast paced team focused on improving, developing and supporting breast diagnostic and treatment pathways for our patients. Candidates who have previous breast experience, or a desire to specialise in breast services, are welcomed to apply.

The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Breast Unit provides comprehensive breast care management as a secondary and tertiary provider. The Trust carries out primary breast procedures, reconstructions, revision and complex surgery for the 600+ new cancers we diagnose and treat each year. An open access follow up programme has been well established and new innovative research opportunities supported.

Main duties of the job

The post will be supervised and responsible to the Lead Clinician, Deepika Akolekar.  The post holder will be required to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstance and to be available for such irregular outside normal rota duties. 

The post holder will be required to deputise from time to time for absent colleagues. 

Working for our organisation

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Please contact the Recruiting Manager for an informal discussion should you have any queries relating to the role for which you are applying. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via an email as soon as possible after the closing date. Should you receive an invitation to attend interview, please confirm or decline your attendance. Interview slots will then be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

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