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Senior Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedic /Spinal

Whittington NHS Trust

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Job summary

Whittington NHS Trust seeks a Senior Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedic/Spinal for a middle-grade registrar position. The role includes conducting ward rounds, outpatient clinics, and participating in both elective and emergency surgeries. The role is full-time, with an initial 12-month contract that can be extended based on performance.

Qualifications

21 months post graduate anaesthesia experience essential.
3 months adult ITU experience necessary.
Initial assessment of competence in obstetric anaesthesia preferred.

Responsibilities

Conduct daily ward rounds and outpatient clinics.
Participate in elective and emergency surgeries.
Engage in administrative duties and on-call rota.

Skills

Communication skills

Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team

Engagement with quality improvement

Education

MB BS or equivalent

Full registration with GMC and licence to practice

ALS

Primary FRCA or equivalent

Additional postgraduate qualification

Core level training certificate or equivalent

Senior Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedic /Spinal

Employer Whittington NHS Trust Location London, United Kingdom Salary GBP 68,000.00 per year Closing date 20 Jun 2025

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Job overview

This is a middle-grade registrar level surgeon post. The successful candidate will work within the department of Trauma and Orthopaedic as part of the wider team. Initial period of contract is 12 months which could be extended depending on the candidate performance. The post-holder will be expected to conduct daily ward rounds and take part in regular out-patient clinics, elective and emergency surgery operating lists and administrative duties. They will be expected to be part of a 1:8 middle-grade on-call rota. We are keen to appoint this individual as soon as possible.

Please note, this post may close early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Main duties of the job

The Trauma and Orthopaedic department consists of in-patient activity on a 29-bedded ward, a high dependency unit with access to ITU beds and extensive day case surgery, both elective and emergency. The department treats in excess of 1800 emergency admissions, 1300 elective inpatients and 1900 day cases per annum. In addition the department sees about 5000 new outpatient referrals per year.
The emergency workload supports a busy A&E department (68,000 attendances per year). The general surgical on-call rota is based solely at the Whittington. The Whittington Health operates a trauma team for dealing with emergency patients with serious or multiple injuries. This includes the general surgical, orthopaedic and anaesthetic SpRs, the surgical SHO and FY1 (all resident on call).

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed overview of the main duties and responsibilities of the post please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

MB BS or equivalent
Full registration with GMC and licence to practice
ALS

Desirable criteria

Primary FRCA or equivalent
Additional postgraduate qualification

Clinical Skills and experience

Essential criteria

21 months post graduate anaesthesia
3 months adult ITU
Initial assessment of competence in obstetric anaesthesia (IACOA), EPA 3 and 4, or equivalent

Desirable criteria

Core level training certificate or equivalent
3 to 6 months acute medicine / emergency medicine
At least 1 year UK based post graduate anaesthetic practice

Communication skills

Essential criteria

Communication skills

Generic Professional Domains

Essential criteria

Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team
Evidence of regular engagement with QI or audit work

Desirable criteria

Evidence of work towards the generic professional domains of the 2021 curriculum for CCT in anaesthesia at stage 1

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
Participate in required training and supervision.
Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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Our processes -

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If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.

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Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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