Trauma Senior Clinical Fellowship in Orthopaedics

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A major teaching Trust in the UK is offering an exciting opportunity for a Senior Orthopaedic Trauma Fellow at its Major Trauma Centre. The successful candidate will manage trauma patients and participate in teaching and research in a dynamic and supportive environment. The role requires a medical degree, MRCS, FRCS (Orth) qualification, and completion of SpR level training in Trauma and Orthopaedics.

Qualifications

• Medical degree is required.
• Must have completed SpR level training in Trauma and Orthopaedics.
• Full registration with the General Medical Council is essential.

Responsibilities

• Management of trauma patients in the Trauma Firm.
• Provision of care for Orthopaedic Trauma cases.
• Integrated teaching and research commitments.

Skills

Medical degree

MRCS

Completed SpR level training in Trauma and Orthopaedics

Full registration with the General Medical Council

FRCS (Orth)

Job description

Overview

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

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Job overview

This is a unique opportunity to apply for the post of Senior Orthopaedic Trauma Fellow at King's College Hospital Major Trauma Centre.

In October 2020, the trauma and orthopaedics service at Denmark Hill joined the service at the Princess Royal University Hospital site to create an integrated, cross-site centre of excellence in the treatment of Orthopaedics.

The Trauma & Orthopaedics department is one of the largest Orthopaedic departments in the region serving a population in excess of 700,000. The department currently has 24 orthopaedic surgeons and in addition to providing elective and trauma services to its local population, the division offers a range of tertiary services.

King's College Hospital is a Major Trauma Centre and is responsible for the South East London, Kent and Medway (SELKAM) Trauma Network. As a Major Trauma Centre King's is a specialist hospital that is able to care for the most severely injured patients, with consultants available 24-hours a day, 7-days a week with the necessary resources and skills to treat complex and sometimes multiple injuries.

Elective inpatient and some daycase work is carried out at Orpington Hospital at the Elective Orthopaedic Centre, almost all aspects of elective Orthopaedics are catered for here. The hospital site has three orthopaedic ultra clean theatres, along with a recovery area and two elective orthopaedic wards.

Main duties of the job

The Fellow will be part of the Trauma Firm. The Fellow will be involved predominantly in management of trauma patients and the provision of care for all Orthopaedic Trauma cases. All trauma subspecialties are available onsite including pelvic surgery, limb reconstruction, orthoplastics and complex periarticular fracture surgery. This post will have integrated teaching and research commitments. There will be opportunities to develop operative skills in percutaneous pelvic/acetabular fracture fixation surgery and in 'Mini-max' complex periarticular fracture fixation surgery.

The trauma fellows will be able to rotate each between specialities (specifically a pelvic trauma, orthoplastics, and periarticular) and/or have the option of a complete 'trauma-pod' pan-specialty fellowship. Allocation to the subspecialties will be dependent on the educational requirement of all the trauma fellows.

Working for our organisation

The budgetary and management structure of King's is divided into Divisions. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery is a cross site division and incorporates trauma and elective surgery both at The PRUH and Denmark Hill. The Division also has an elective facility based at Orpington hospital with four operating theatres, an admissions ward and a post operative ward facility. Trauma and Orthopaedics represents its own Care Group in the hospital management structure. The Care Group is led by Clinical Director - Mr Abihnav Gulihar. The Clinical Director is supported by Clinical leads at the Denmark Hill site and Princess Royal sites, with separate Governance leads at each site. The Care Group General Manager is Ms Hannah Jackson and Cyril Noone is The Head Of Nursing. The Trust director for major trauma services is Mr Malcolm Tunnicliffe. The regional Major Trauma Network also has its own Clinical Director and is organised via daily multi-disciplinary trauma clinical meetings and weekly review meetings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post will be based at Denmark Hill and this will be reviewed within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trusts sites as required by the service. As an employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:

• The provision of a first class clinical service.
• Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.
• Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King's College London / KHP.
• Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust's procedures and operating policies.
• Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust's service plans.
• Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• medical degree
• mrcs
• Completed SpR level training in Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Full registration (or eligible for full registration) with the General Medical Council
• FRCS (Orth)

Desirable criteria

• CCST (Completion Certificate of Training)

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Trauma Senior Clinical Fellowship (PDF, 352.4KB)
• Denmark Hill Site Map (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Princess Royal (PRUH) Site map (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Visa and Sponsorship Information (PDF, 344.6KB)