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Job summary

Main area
Trauma & Orthopaedics Surgery
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
6 months (6 months fixed term)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
361-R2R-2308
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lister Hospital
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust logo

Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon- Hip Surgery (ERF)

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon with Specialist Interest in Hip Surgery. We are seeking consultants with enthusiasm, commitment, and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community to help lead the organisation.  

Our Trust is committed to career development which allows us to look out for individuals who are proactive, motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic to join our clinical team. This post is an important part of our ongoing development of Trauma and Orthopaedic services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and is part of an expansion to meet the rising demand and complexity of orthopaedic trauma and hip surgery in our area. Applicants should possess expertise in general orthopaedic trauma and all aspects of hip surgery.  

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Trauma and Orthopaedic department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful applicant will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership, innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and they feel valued during their visits to the Trust. 

Main duties of the job

It is expected that the successful candidate will have a job plan comprising both fixed clinical and flexible theatre sessions agreed in advance. The successful candidate would be expected to work with the existing substantive Consultants to provide a high quality service at the Trust. 

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.  We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.  This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
 

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
  • Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Qualifications / Training

Essential criteria
  • Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
  • FRCS Tr&Orth or qualification of an equivalent level
  • Higher Trauma and Orthopaedic (or equivalent) training
Desirable criteria
  • Postgraduate degree (or equivalent) related to Orthopaedics (eg Masters / MD / MRes / PhD etc)
  • Fellowship training in Hip Surgery
  • Trauma Fellowship

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Broad range of experience in Trauma and Orthopaedics
  • Proficient in management and treatment of complex peri-prosthetic hip trauma
  • Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
  • Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
  • Evidence of leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
  • Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidence based practice and clinical quality improvement initiatives
  • Demonstrable experience and active participation in research and development
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of Orthopaedic Trauma in a UK Major Trauma Centre
  • Demonstrable Orthopaedic Trauma experience in a Locum Consultant or Consultant role
  • Demonstrable Hip Surgery experience in a Locum Consultant or Consultant role

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Adam Rumian
Job title
Deputy Clinical Director in Trauma & Orthopaedics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438 734022
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