Locum Consultant T&O - Special Interest in Hand & Wrist

NHS; Romford; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health trust in Romford is seeking a full-time Locum Consultant specializing in Hand & Wrist Surgery. The candidate will manage patient care, engage in clinical governance, and provide supervision for junior staff. This role is vital for improving trauma and orthopaedic services. A Fellowship in Trauma and Orthopaedics is essential for applicants. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £109,725 to £145,478 annually with a fixed term of one year.

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration or post CCT within 6 months.
• Fellowship in Trauma and Orthopaedics Hand and Wrist.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

• Manage patient care in outpatient clinics and trauma theatres.
• Engage in developing the orthopaedic hand and wrist service.
• Provide educational and clinical supervision for junior staff.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Decision making at consultant level

Education

Fellowship in Trauma and Orthopaedics Hand and Wrist

Full GMC Registration

Job description

Job summary

Applications are invited for the post of a full time Locum Consultant (with a special interest in Hand & Wrist Surgery) for Trauma and Orthopaedics (T&O) department. This is an opportunity to join a busy, dynamic multidisciplinary team to help us improve the trauma and orthopaedics service that we provide to our population. This is initially a one-year fixed term post.

The successful candidate will be managing patient care in outpatient clinics, fracture clinics, virtual fracture clinics, triaging and assisting in elective and trauma theatres. There will also be opportunities to teach and support more junior staff in the department.

The Locum Consultant (with a special interest in Hand & Wrist) will be a key role within T&O as they are responsible for fast tracking patients through their diagnosis, initiating investigations, and providing management & treatment plans for patients presenting with orthopaedic issues. The post holder will also triage T&O patient referrals, and this improves the decision‑making in clinic or for admission/further referral management.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will have a broad experience in the management of Orthopaedic inpatients, Orthopaedic outpatients, and Trauma patients and will have to engage in all aspects of orthopaedic patient pathways. The appointees will be involved in developing the existing orthopaedic hand and wrist service further and will provide full consultant in-patient, outpatient and pre‑assessment care for lower limb patients as well as trauma patients.

The postholders will participate in clinical governance programme including appraisal, audit and research projects leading to publications. They will have opportunity to get involved in quality improvement projects. They will be instrumental in providing educational and clinical supervision for our junior staff. You will also contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

Details

• Date posted: 11 December 2025
• Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
• Grade: Consultant
• Salary: £109,725 to £145,478 per annum
• Contract: Fixed term (1 year)
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 162-0665-TO-A
• Job locations: Romford, RM7 0AG
• Employer: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Person specification

Qualifications & Experience – Essential

• Full GMC Registration or post CCT within 6 months
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and excellent decision making at consultant level
• Fellowship in Trauma and Orthopaedics Hand and Wrist

Desirable

• Higher degree and Hand Diploma
• National, International Fellowship training
• Experience in managing emergency trauma surgical skills

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: Orthopaedic Medical Staff, Romford, RM7 0AG