Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Grade
- MN37
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-TDPB-027
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St. Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,068 - £57,570 per annum plus London Weighting
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Fellow in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery
MN37
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We are looking to appoint one post-FRCS Upper Limb Fellow at the Upper Limb Unit at St Mary’s/Charing Cross Hospitals.
The Upper Limb Unit has one Fellow and three SpRs under the supervision of Mr Peter Reilly, Mr Dylan Griffiths, Mr Andrew Forrester and Mr Sanjeeve Sabharwal. It offers a comprehensive approach to upper limb surgery. The Fellow post is suitable for surgeons with special interests in Shoulder and Elbow surgery.
Our upper limb service covers all aspects of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. This includes arthroscopy, arthroplasty, post-traumatic reconstruction, complex trauma management as well as primary and revision surgery.
Each of our surgeons has special and complementary interests. Fellows have the opportunity of designing their Fellowship to suit their individual needs and interests.
The unit is active in clinical research and fellows have to the opportunity actively contribute to new and ongoing research. Research and teaching are regarded as an integral part of the job.
Main duties of the job
The fellow will divide his/her time between outpatient clinics, inpatient cover and both independent and supervised theatre sessions. There will be a degree of flexibility to accommodate the successful candidate’s preferences and interest.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Features of this fellowship and department:
- High volume operating (trauma & elective)
- Major Trauma Centre experience
- Research systems and support staff in place
- Teaching opportunities on local courses
- International reputation with good world wide connections
- High success rate at future consultant appointments having left the fellowship
The Major Trauma Centre at St Mary’s provides a huge opportunity to gain experience in the management of and surgery related to, high volume major trauma and polytrauma. The elective centre at Charing Cross has been designated a regional Major Revision Centre and handles all the elective practice of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The successful candidates will join a young and vibrant department, with additional opportunities to conduct research, take part in leadership and audit programmes and help organisation of middle grade work. Many of our previous candidates have progressed on to consultant posts.
The post is across-site (SMH/CXH/HH) but the on-call commitment is off-site for Charing Cross Hospital with the other senior fellows (plus senior cover for St Mary’s if a junior SpR is on-call or in cases where emergency cover is required). Approximately every 5 months you will also have a SpR of the week on-call commitment at St Mary’s. The job banding is 1B with London allowance.
The fellowship is available from October 2024 for 12 months.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registration with license to practice by commencement of the post
- FRCS (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree
Academic achievements including research/publications
Desirable criteria
- Prior involvement in research at any level
Relevant experience in specialty/Sub specialty
Essential criteria
- Experience or aptitude for clinical activity appropriate to job description
Language
Essential criteria
- Candidates are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements
Audit
Essential criteria
- Understanding of principles of clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Prior involvement in or completion of audit projects
Clinical skills
Essential criteria
- Appropriate to job description
Relevant experience in specialty/Sub specialty
Essential criteria
- Experience or aptitude for clinical activity appropriate to job description
Teaching & Training
Desirable criteria
- Exposure to teaching medical students and junior colleagues
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- Meets professional health requirements Pre employment health screening
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Adequate written and spoken communications, ability to build rapport, work with others. IT Skills and computer literacy
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sanjeeve Sabharwal
- Job title
- Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics
- Email address
- [email protected]
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