Locum Consultant Trauma And Orthopaedics Upper Limb

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Nhs Trust; Redditch; Presencial; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Locum Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics Upper Limb Surgery to provide elective cover at Alexandra Hospital Redditch. The post involves regular upper limb operating lists and participation in a 1:4 ambulatory trauma rota for the Kidderminster site.

The successful candidate will contribute to the trauma rota, engage in MDT discussions, and support GP surgeries and health centres with potential revised job plans.

Formación

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to UK CCT in Trauma and Orthopaedics.
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems, emergency and elective.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care.

Responsabilidades

• Provide clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and GPs.
• Attend MDT meetings and work within multi-disciplinary teams across three sites.
• Support A&E and acute medicine to ensure timely patient flow and care.

Conocimientos

Clinical service

MDT involvement

On-call support

Leadership

Educación

GMC registration

UK CCT in Trauma and Orthopaedics

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Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to recruit a Locum Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics Upper Limb Surgery. The Directorate provides services across 3 hospital sites within the county of Worcestershire. The successful candidate will benefit from working within a friendly and experienced team of T and O Consultants.

As a Trust we have been actively involved in developing the training program for students from the Three Counties Medical School based in Worcester which opened in September 2023. We also have a long-established role in training medical students from the University of Birmingham and undergraduates from the University of Warwick.

Main duties of the job

This is a replacement post for a Consultant in Upper Limb Surgery. The successful applicant will provide elective cover at Alexandra Hospital Redditch. They will undertake a regular upper limb operating lists at Alexandra hospital, with access to dual consultant operating and support for complex/revision cases where required. They will also be part of a 1:4 rota for ambulatory trauma at our Kidderminster Site.

The post holder will contribute to the trauma rota and support the delivery of Upper Limb trauma surgery. They will also participate in MDT working and complex case discussions.

Applicants must be on, or within 6 months of entry to, the GMC Specialist Register for Trauma and Orthopaedics.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation, which means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job responsibilities

• A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.
• The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries and health centres and job plans may be revised in due course.
• The post-holder will provide support to the A and E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital.
• The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.
• The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings.
• The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trusts and departmental objectives.
• The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post.

Person Specification

Experience (Essential)

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in T and O
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Expertise in sub-specialty

Teaching Experience

Essential

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates

Desirable

• Ability to supervise postgraduate research

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise.
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent

Desirable

• Higher degree
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in T and O (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via CCT or CESR (PP), CESR or European Community Rights

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
• Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities
• Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit

Desirable

• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate
• Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making

Research Experience

Essential

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative

Desirable

• Publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals in the last 5 years
• Evidence of having undertaken original research

Employer details

Employer name: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: Alexandra Hospital, Woodrow Drive, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 7UB, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/

Contact: Clinical Service Lead Mr Usman Ahmed, [e-mail]

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. 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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.