Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious teaching hospital in London is seeking a Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to provide and develop care for orthopaedic trauma patients. Candidates are expected to have a subspecialty fellowship in orthopaedic trauma surgery and significant clinical experience, particularly in managing complex lower limb cases and emergency paediatric conditions. The position includes teaching responsibilities and collaborative work with a multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Experience of all aspects of orthopaedic major trauma surgery including completion of a subspecialty Fellowship in orthopaedic trauma surgery.
• Demonstrable experience of managing emergency paediatric orthopaedic conditions.
• Experience as an Orthopaedic Consultant in a Major Trauma Centre.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and delivery of orthopaedic trauma care for adult and paediatric patients.
• Contribute to Kings subspecialty training.
• Carry out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required.

Skills

Leadership capability

Complex lower limb surgery

Emergency paediatric orthopaedic conditions

Medical audit principles

Education

Full MRCP

Full Registration with GMC

GMC Specialist Register

Job description

Go back King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

The closing date is 10 August 2025

This is a replacement locum Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and developing care for orthopaedic trauma patients, and to provide and develop trauma surgery services at King's. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

Main duties of the job

The post will be primarily based at King's College Hospital (Denmark Hill site) with a commitment to providing surgical services at any other Trust site. The evolution of regional integrated care systems may also require the post holder to work flexibly within the region in the future. The proposed Job Plan is attached. There will be an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care, with the remainder being allocated for Supporting Professional and/or other Activities. The On-Call commitment is for a 1:12 rota which is classed as Category A.

As a senior employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:-

The provision of a first class clinical service

Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King's College London

Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust's procedures and operating policies

Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust's service plans

Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

About us

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum - and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King's College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:

1. Brilliant People

2. Outstanding care

3. Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education

4. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

At King's, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.

Job responsibilities

1. To provide support and delivery of orthopaedic trauma care for adult and paediatric patients in keeping with the requirements of the Major Trauma service.

2. To provide and support delivery of elective orthopaedic hip services in line with the departments status as a tertiary referral centre. This may also include a commitment to providing some elective paediatric orthopaedic services.

3. To work alongside the existing orthoplastics team to provide comprehensive integrated care for patients with combined complex orthopaedic and soft tissue injuries.

4. To be an integral part of the wider trauma team including general, vascular, neuro and cardiothoracic surgical teams.

5. To organise, guide and promote the dialogue and cooperate with any other subspeciality surgeon in the process of decision making and emergency surgery.

6. To be responsible for the day to day management of elective and trauma and limb reconstruction patients on the wards.

7. To contribute to Kings subspecialty training. The consultant will be expected to supervise, govern, cooperate with, instruct, teach doctors at SCF, SpR, JCF, SHO, F1/F2 level in their clinical work and audit activity of the unit. The Department is proactively involved with student teaching and regular student teaching is mandatory for the postholder.

8. To contribute to the on call rota on a regular basis (weekdays 1:3 and 1:12 weekends (Friday to Sunday).

9. The post holder is expected to attend relevant MDT meetings.

10. Clinical supervision of junior medical staff as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.

11. Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to Continuing Medical Education and clinical governance initiatives.

12. Responsible for out-patient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed by the Liver, Renal & Surgery Divisional management team.

13. To contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the Trusts R&D framework.

14. To contribute to the Audit Programme.

15. To take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Divisions Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with both internal and external agencies.

16. To conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for surgical services.

17. To exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.

18. To work in conjunction with clinical and professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for junior colleagues.

19. To undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Clinical Director.

20. To be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene. To undertake annual training/updates in infection prevention and control.

21. To be accountable for implementation of the Code of Practice within own department/area of responsibility.

22. To prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice and maintaining patient safety.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Higher Education

• Full MRCP
• Full Registration with GMC
• Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
• On the day of interview applicants must be within 6 months of CCT, in final stages of their portfolio pathway application, or be fully registered on the GMC Specialist Register. Any applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered

Training and Experience

• Experience of all aspects of orthopaedic major trauma surgery including completion of a subspecialty Fellowship in orthopaedic trauma surgery.
• Demonstrable experience of complex lower limb surgery including skills required to treat complex hip arthroplasty and acetabular/pelvis surgery in the major trauma setting.
• Demonstrable experience of managing emergency paediatric orthopaedic conditions
• Experience as an Orthopaedic Consultant in a Major Trauma Centre.

Administration

• Experience in day-to-day organisation of surgical services in a busy Teaching Hospital
• Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
• Management course and/or qualification

Audit and Quality Improvement

• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit
• Must have undertaken and completed audit projects
• Audit Publications

Research and Publications

• Experience of clinical research.
• Publication of relevant review articles or case reports
• Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of Orthopaedics

Teaching

• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation
• Teaching skills course/qualification

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.

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