Post-CCT Fellow (Eqv to ST8+) in Lower Limb Orthopaedic Surgery

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Post-CCT Fellow in Lower Limb Orthopaedic Surgery. This 8-month fellowship offers a dynamic experience across major hospitals, aiming to develop expertise in knee conditions, with opportunities for research and collaboration. Successful applicants should be GMC registered and possess relevant fellowship training. This role promotes active participation in clinical settings while ensuring mentorship and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Completed training in Trauma and Orthopaedics.
• Experience at consultant level in a major trauma centre.
• Fellowship training in knee surgery.

Responsibilities

• Integrate with the team for patient care in clinics, theatre, and wards.
• Participate in research opportunities.
• Complete an audit or quality improvement project.

Skills

Self-motivated with an enquiring, critical approach

Ability to work under pressure

Caring attitude to patients

Commitment to continuing medical education

Leadership within the clinical environment

Flexible approach to work and evidence of team working

Education

Full GMC Registration with current licence to practice

Higher level research degree (MD or equivalent)

Job description

Post-CCT Fellow (Eqv to ST8+) in Lower Limb Orthopaedic Surgery

We are looking to appoint a post-CCT Fellow Knee Orthopaedic Surgery.

Bart's Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK and offers comprehensive service covering the full range of Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery and has a long and rich heritage of innovation and training in orthopaedics and trauma.

The post CCT arthroplasty fellowship position is for 8 months, working across our network of hospitals (The Royal London Hospital, Bart's Health Orthopaedic Centre and Whipps Cross Hospital). Our team treat the full range knee conditions allowing us to customise the fellowships to a degree in order to provide an optimal experience suited to the successful applicant's needs. The fellowship provide solid grounding in knee arthroplasty (total and partial), Knee preservation (cartilage, meniscus, osteotomy and ligament) as well as exposure to complex revision surgery as the major revision knee centre including; peri-prosthetic fracture management, multi-stage revision and massive endo-prosthetic replacement.

Main duties of the job

The positions provides a mixture of supervised and independent practice to prepare the fellows for independent consultant practice with a specialist interest in knee surgery furthermore. The fellows are integral members of the team involved in day to day care of patient in clinics, theatre and on the wards.

The successful applicant(s) will work closely with all the consultants in the department, Mr Jaison Patel and Mr Joshua Lee will act as the educational supervisor and the whole team will assist in mentoring. The Barts fellowships have an excellent record of helping the applicants directly move on to substantive consultant posts.

Our orthopaedic academic unit has a strong track record of involvement in clinical trials and research, the fellows are strongly encouraged to actively participate in research opportunities. In addition, the fellows are expected to complete an audit or quality improvement project during their time and publish a paper in a peer reviewed journal.

We are delighted to accept fellows from across the UK and internationally.

You must hold full registration with the General Medical Council and be post CCT or within 3 months of obtaining CCT.

About us

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate, and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

Barts Health supports The Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for the main responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Completed training in Trauma and Orthopaedics (e.g. post-CCT)
• Teaching undergraduates and postgraduates
• Experience at consultant level working in a major trauma centre
• Fellowship training in knee surgery

Skills

• Self-motivated with an enquiring, critical approach to work
• Ability to work under pressure
• Caring attitude to patients
• Commitment to continuing medical education
• Commitment to engage with Quality improvement processes and drive further development
• Take an active leadership role within the clinical environment
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level
• Flexible approach to work and evidence of team working

Knowledge

• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion on range of elective & emergency problems within specialty
• Able to take full independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Engage fully with both NATSSIPS and LOCSSIPS as required and develop these as required.
• Engage fully with relevant governance processes.

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration with current licence to practice
• The candidate should be on the GMC specialist register or within 6-months of obtaining this.
• Evidence of participation in research (peer reviewed publications etc.)
• Evidence of innovative approaches to healthcare
• Higher level research degree (MD or equivalent)

Other

• Ability to advise on efficient & smooth running of a specialist service and to organise & manage outpatient priorities, surgical waiting & operating lists
• Experience of supervising doctors in training and in teaching clinical & operative skills
• Experience of research, presentations to learned societies on topics related to surgery
• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical/surgical problems
• Publications in indexed journals
• Experience of audit management
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates

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.