Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedics Upper Limb

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Redditch; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is recruiting a Locum Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics Upper Limb Surgery based at Alexandra Hospital in Redditch. The role involves elective upper limb surgery and participation in a 1:4 ambulatory trauma rota across sites, with MDT involvement and ongoing clinical leadership.

The post requires GMC Specialist Register entry in Trauma & Orthopaedics (or within 6 months of entry).

Qualifications

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to UK CCT in T&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.

Responsibilities

• Provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings and work within MDTs to deliver high-quality clinical care.
• Participate in on-call rota to ensure emergency and urgent services outside normal hours.

Skills

Clinical training

CCT in Trauma & Orthopaedics

Independent clinical responsibility

Expertise in sub-specialty

Education

Full GMC Registration with Licence to practise

Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent

Job description

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to recruit a Locum Consultant in Trauma & 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& 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 & 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 - this 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 description

Job responsibilities

This job description together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.

• 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/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course.
• The post-holder will provide support to the A& 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& 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& O (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via
• oCCT or CESR (PP)
• oCESR or
• oEuropean Community Rights

Management & 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 speciality specific developments and initiative

Desirable

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

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