Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with special interest in Knee Surgery

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Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon focusing on knee surgery. This full-time role involves on-call duties and collaboration with a dynamic team, ensuring high-quality patient care and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars and home electronics

Cycle to work scheme

Salary finance for loans and savings

Qualifications

• Demonstrable fellowship training in knee surgery is essential.
• Full GMC registration and entry on the GMC Specialist Register required.

Responsibilities

• Full-time post with 1 in 12 on-call commitments.
• Contribute to administrative, governance, teaching, and research activities.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Leadership

Education

FRCS or Equivalent

Higher Orthopaedic Surgery Qualification

Job description

Main area Trauma & Orthopaedics Grade Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (On Call: 1 in 12 Weekends & Weekdays) Job ref 362-A-25-6869615

Employer Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Stepping Hill Hospital Town Stockport Salary £105,504 - £139,882 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 30/06/2025

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with special interest in Knee Surgery

Consultant

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.

Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.

Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.

In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.

Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment

As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.

Our Values:

We Care

About each other

Our patients and their families

The communities we serve

The environment

We support them and deliver on their promises

We Respect

Each other

Our patients and their families

Our partners

We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return

Each other

Our patients and their families

Our partners

We act and learn from what we hear

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and hardworking surgeon to join the Stockport Trauma & Orthopaedic Department.

The successful candidate will have a particular focus on knee surgery. There can be further consideration over additional areas of interest to the candidate. Demonstrable fellowship training in the above aspects of knee surgery is essential.

Main duties of the job

About the Role

This is a full-time post (10 PAs), with 1 in 12 weekend and weekday on call commitments.

The post-holder will agree a detailed job plan including personal and professional objectives with the Clinical Director once in post; broadly the job plan includes theatre sessions, outpatient sessions, admin, team meetings and SPA sessions.

The appointee can be given full support withappraisals, continuing professional development and revalidation. In addition, the successful candidate will be able to access support from our leading transformation team, who recently supported a theatre transformation programme which won a HSJ award in 2024.

The successful candidate will be expected to fully contribute to the administrative, governance, teaching and research activities within the department.

Candidates must have:

full GMC registration;

entry on the GMC Specialist Register, or be committed to be within 6 months of interview;

higher orthopaedic surgery qualification; and

minimum of 1 year dedicated knee surgery fellowship -

completed or planned

Working for our organisation

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further

• Cycle to work scheme

•Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt

• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Trust has a comprehensive orthopaedic service for both elective and trauma cases provided on the Stepping Hill Hospital site, with a total of 76 beds. This includes a brand new, purpose built trauma ward complete with MDT facilities.

There is a 6 bedded intensive care unit with a high dependency unit of 8 beds. These beds are used flexibly to accommodate both level 2 & level 3 care.

There is a purpose built out patients department with a dedicated children’s facility situated adjacent to the Orthopaedic unit. We also provide outpatient services to the residents of North Derbyshire at Buxton Hospital.

Current areas of focus

• Recovery of elective services and backlog following Covid-19 pandemic
• Collaborative working with other Acute Trusts within our sector and the wider integrated care system in Greater Manchester
• Focus on new pathways, service redesign and new ways of working following Covid-19 pandemic
• Continued focus on quality and improved outcomes for all Orthopaedic patients, with particular emphasis on mortality rates, PROMS, National Joint Registry results, achievement of best practice and day case tariffs, and several other quality measures.
• Review and implementation of GIRFT (Getting it Right First Time) recommendations.
• Ensure the Trust achieves / makes improvements against the patient access standards
• Ensure value for money and deliver cost savings on the procurement of prostheses and theatre kit.
• Ensure optimum use of theatre capacity and scheduling

Please refer to the attached job description and personal specification.

For informal discussions and to arrange visit, please contact:

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.

Person specification

Qualifications

• FRCS or Equivalent
• Entry onto the General Medical Councils Specialist Register or in receipt of CCST within 6 months of interview
• Full GMC registration
• Orthopaedic surgery qualification

Experience

• Clinical training and experience in trauma and orthopaedics
• Ability to manage elective and emergency orthopaedic conditions
• Ability to train / supervise junior medical staff and medical students
• Good interpersonal skills

Training

• Sp. Registrar Fellowship planned or completed in Knee Surgery

Previous Work Experience

• Trained at Specialist Registrar or Equivalent Level
• Wide experience in knee surgery and able to deal with both emergency and elective knee conditions
• Ability to train / supervise junior medical staff and medical students

Applicants are encouraged to read the documents attached to this vacancy before applying, including the job description and person specification and the information for applicants which includes useful information to assist you in completing your application.

From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Please note that all correspondence will be via your NHS Jobs account. Unfortunately we are not able to acknowledge each application. If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. Please also note that Stockport NHS Foundation Trust are unable to refund Interview expenses or re-location costs.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees. Applications are welcomed from all backgrounds and we strive to reflect the community we serve in our diverse workforce. Our "two tick" kite mark guarantees a candidate with a disability, who fulfills the essential criteria, an interview at the Trust. We can make reasonable adjustments, and offer support and advice in a variety of ways on request.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Application numbers

The vacancy may close early if it attracts a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Name Mr Thomas Finnigan Job title Clinical Director Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0161 419 4037 Additional information

For Informal discussions and to arrange visit, please contact

Mrs Karen Hatchell – Divisional Director 0161 419 4474

Miss Natasha Henley – Associate Medical Director 0161 419 4268

Mr Thomas Finnigan – Clinical Director 0161 419 4037

If you have problems applying, contact

Address Aspen House
Stepping Hill Hospital
Poplar Grove
Stockport
SK2 7JE
Telephone [phone] ext.117081