Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Include on call cover)
- Job ref
- 359-MSD6419755-Ortho
- Employer
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross site
- Town
- Maidstone hospital
- Salary
- £40,257 - £58,398 per annum / pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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POST-CCT Fellowship in Orthopaedic Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen as part of the expansion of elective orthopaedic surgery at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospital, with the building of the new Kent and Medway Orthopaedic Centre. It will serve patients from across the Kent and Medway system, with the opening of a new state of the art, three laminar flow theatre complex, comprising of a 14-bed inpatient ward, and 10 bed day case ward. Currently the build is on track for the opening in September 2024.
This post is aimed at a surgeon who is post or peri-CCT, has completed their Trauma & Orthopaedic training and has passed the FRCS (Tr & Orth) final examination. The candidate should be planning a career in Hip or Knee surgery with an interest in Arthroplasty. The successful applicant will work closely with two of the Lower Limb Arthroplasty Surgeons, will spend some time in theatre with the other Hip & Knee Surgeons and in time will also have the opportunity to perform independent operating lists once deemed competent and approved by their Clinical Supervisors. Parallel operating lists will allow for independent Fellow operating but with some level of supervision. The Fellow will attend Elective Hip & Knee Clinics, seeing new referrals and will also be participate in Specialty Trauma lists. The successful candidate will join the middle-grade rota covering general Orthopaedic trauma on a 1:18 rota.
To commence September 2024 for 12 Months.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of care to all patients for whom you have clinical responsibility. This includes any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
Undertake clinic activities as required by the specialty need.
Working for our organisation
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust providing the full range of general hospital services, and some areas of specialist complex care, to a local population of approaching 800,000 living in the West Kent and East Sussex regions. We also provide specialist care to a much wider population. Both hospitals offer acute services via busy A&E departments with surgical services also based across two sites. These are supported by HDU and ITU facilities. Acute Orthopaedic admissions are cared for solely at the Pembury Hospital in Tunbridge Wells and supported by twin all day trauma lists. Elective Orthopaedics is split between sites. A ring-fenced single-theatre twelve-bedded Elective Orthopaedic unit is based on the Maidstone site.
This will be expanded in March 2024 by the addition of the state-of-the-art Kent & Medway Elective Orthopaedic Centre (KAMOC) with the addition of three new operating suites, day-case surgical facilities and a further 24 inpatient and short-stay beds. This new facility will allow us to greatly increase capacity for elective Orthopaedic services in the wider Kent & Medway area.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- MBBS (or equivalent)
- Registered with GMC
- Possession or within 6 months of CCT
- FRCS (Orth) or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
- Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc MD
Audit
Essential criteria
- Understand the principles of audit
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in audit projects
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of leadership
- Able to get on with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
- To have undertaken a postgraduate communication skills course
Research
Essential criteria
- An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
- Publications in peer- reviewed journals
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
- Mr Syed S. Ahmed
- Job title
- Consultant & College Tutor in T&O, MTW NHS Trust
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Alex Cresswell
Acting General Manager, Trauma & Orthopaedics
07751 729036
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