Clinical Fellow in Foot and Ankle Surgery

Clinical Fellow in Foot and Ankle Surgery

Main area Orthopaedics Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 5 (MT05) Contract Fixed term: 6 months (n/a) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (Out of hours commitment is applicable) Job ref 321-NOTS-MS S6

Site Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Town Oxford Salary £73,992 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/:59

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Trauma Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital

Clinical Fellow in Foot and Ankle Surgery

Commence post: 02/03/2026

Fixed term contract - 6 months

The successful candidates will participate in a registrar on-call rota.

Main duties of the job

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre is a teaching hospital and is 1 of 4 sites of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It provides a service for the clinical management of musculoskeletal problems its facilities include Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, Rehabilitation and a specialised diagnostic service in Histopathology and Medical Imaging.

There are 5 orthopaedic in-patient wards, 1 in-patient bone infection unit, HDU/Recovery with an overall total of 196 beds, 8 operating theatres and a purpose built day surgery unit.

The hospital takes 5000 admissions each year, sees 30,000 outpatients, either on the premises or in peripheral clinics, there is a tertiary referral centre for specialist orthopaedics and physical rehabilitation. Patients are referred from the Oxfordshire district, other regions and beyond.

The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre is a hospital site which has grown considerably over recent years and which is presently generating more work. It is expected that this will continue and promote the development of specialist activity within the field of orthopedics'.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

All Registrars will have a role in the day to day organisation of the Foot & Ankle Service. It will be part of their responsibility to ensure that records are maintained and are accurate.

Person specification Qualifications/Training

• Full GMC registration with licence to practice
• MB BS or equivalent medical qualifications
• FRCS (T&O) or equivalent
• Completion of specialist training in Orthopaedic with certification
• Intention to pursue foot & ankle orthopaedic surgery as a specialist career
• Post CCT
• Higher surgical degree BSc or other further post graduate qualification

Experience

• Completion of specialist training in Orthopaedics with certification
• Higher surgical training posts in orthopaedic
• Competent to perform common foot & ankle procedures
• Able to manage patients under consultant supervision
• Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management and evidencebased practice.
• Understanding of research principles methodology and ethics, with potential to contribute to research
• Previous research experience with publications
• Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements, e.g. degrees, prizes, awards, distinctions and other achievements
• Able to deputise for consultant

Skills and Knowledge

• Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to effectively undertake the role in foot & ankle Surgery in a large teaching hospital.
• Ability to organise oneself, to manage time and tasks and prioritise clinical needs within limitations of experience.
• Competent to work without direct supervision where appropriate according to level of experience
• Sound note keeping skills
• Validated logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees.
• Understanding of clinical governance and participation in audit.
• Experience of clinical audit
• Evidence of Management training and experience
• Evidence of feedback, experience of teaching course organisation

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.