Senior Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedic /Spinal

Senior Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedic /Spinal

This is a middle-grade registrar level surgeon post. The successful candidate will work within the department of Trauma and Orthopaedic as part of the wider team. Initial period of contract is 12 months which could be extended depending on the candidate performance. The post-holder will be expected to conduct daily ward rounds and take part in regular out-patient clinics, elective and emergency surgery operating lists and administrative duties. They will be expected to be part of a 1:10 middle-grade on-call rota. We are keen to appoint this individual as soon as possible.

Please note, this post may close early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Main duties of the job

The Trauma and Orthopaedic department consists of in-patient activity on a 29-bedded ward, a high dependency unit with access to ITU beds and extensive day case surgery, both elective and emergency. The department treats in excess of 1800 emergency admissions, 1300 elective inpatients and 1900 day cases per annum. In addition the department sees about 5000 new outpatient referrals per year.The emergency workload supports a busy A&E department (68,000 attendances per year). The general surgical on-call rota is based solely at the Whittington. The Whittington Health operates a trauma team for dealing with emergency patients with serious or multiple injuries. This includes the general surgical, orthopaedic and anaesthetic SpRs, the surgical SHO and FY1 (all resident on call).

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

For a detailed overview of the main duties and responsibilities of the post please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person Specification Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent
• Full registration with GMC and licence to practice
• ALS
• MRCS

Clinical Skills and experience

• 6 months T&O
• At least 1 year UK based post graduate orthopaedic practice

Generic Professional Domains

• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team
• Evidence of regular engagement with QI or audit work
• Evidence of work towards the FRCS

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Consultant Trauma and Orthopeadic Surgeon