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An opportunity has arisen for a locum consultant to join the Dermatology department at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, based at the Solihull and Good Hope Hospital sites for 6 months maternity cover, with an opportunity to potentially extend for a further 6 months. This 6PA post will comprise medical dermatology and skin cancer clinics and a surgical session. The ability to communicate and work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential.

The department of dermatology at Solihull, Good Hope and Heartlands Hospitals is the largest department of dermatology in the Midlands and one of the busiest specialist dermatology departments in the United Kingdom. We serve a local, regional and supra-regional referral base commensurate with the comprehensive range of subspecialty expertise and clinics offered. Specialised services include the NCG-funded highly specialised service for Epidermolysis Bullosa, psychodermatology service, regional Mohs micrographic surgery service, a regional complex tertiary patch testing service, complex medical dermatology, genital skin disease, paediatric dermatology and teledermatology services., University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population.

It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible.

We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe.

We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe.

We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK.

We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK's only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC).

We have over 20,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing.