Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting two substantive consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeons (OMFS) with a special interest in head and neck oncology and reconstruction, with applications closing at 11.59pm on Tuesday 11 November 2026.

The permanent posts, based at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool with sessions at Warrington Hospital, carry a salary of £113,565 to £150,569 a year, plus a 5 per cent flap on-call supplement. The roles are full time on a 12 programmed activity (PA) job plan, including 8.5 PAs of direct clinical care.

The successful candidates will join a team delivering the full range of oral and maxillofacial surgery across Cheshire and Merseyside and the wider region, including emergency cover for Alder Hey Children's Hospital. The department undertakes all surgical oncology for oral cancer and most orthognathic surgery in the region, and works with the Walton Centre and ear, nose and throat colleagues on craniofacial and skull-base cancer surgery.

The unit also has close links with the supra-regional craniofacial unit and the regional cleft palate unit at Alder Hey. Appointees will take part in the on-call rota, including a trauma consultant of the week role currently running at a frequency of one in 15, and will have opportunities in undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental teaching.

Applicants must hold medical and dental degrees, full registration with the General Medical Council and a licence to practise, and be eligible for the specialist list in oral and maxillofacial surgery. A certificate of completion of training in the specialty, or being within six months of attaining one at interview, is essential, along with a head and neck fellowship and evidence of continuing medical education.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It is part of the NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 November 2024, which employs more than 16,800 staff and provides general and emergency hospital care for around 630,000 people across Merseyside, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside. The trust says the new consultants will help deliver general OMFS surgery and trauma management as part of a multi-professional team, with administration, meetings and continuing medical education built into the job plan. Newly appointed consultants are offered 1.5 supporting professional activities under the trust's job-planning policy.

Informal enquiries can be made to Fazilet Bekiroglu, OMFS clinical lead, on 0151 529 4277. Applications must be made online through the official NHS Jobs advert, reference 287-ASUR-141-26, before the 11 November deadline. The post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check, and applicants must hold appropriate UK professional registration.