Skip to main content

This site is independent of the NHS and the Department of Health.

Please wait, loading

Job summary

Main area
T&O
Grade
MT03
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term and Permanent posts)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (as per work schedule for JCF)
Job ref
392-RNOH-1191
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Stanmore
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£49,909 + £2,162 London Weighting per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Junior Clinical Fellow

MT03

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to come and work at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) joining some of the UKs leading surgical teams delivering excellence in orthopaedics and neuro-musculoskeletal care.

RNOH Junior Clinical Fellowship+ posts are designed to provide a rounded experience for successful applicants; each with a strong clinical focus in addition to specialist non-clinical attachments that will be the envy of any portfolio.

Main duties of the job

JCF+ posts include but are not limited to:

JCF+ Medical Management & Leadership:

Supervised by the RNOH Medical Directorate and will include special project, attendance at relevant management committee meetings, Faculty of Medical Leadership Management

 

JCF+ Quality Improvement:

Supervised by Director of Improvement and will an intro to QI, special project with Improvement Team, human Factors training.

 

JCF+ Research and Innovation:

Supervised by the Head of the RNOH Research & Innovation Centre and will include special project, attendance at Research & Innovation Committee meetings, Critical Appraisal skills training, learn to write grant proposals

 

JCF+ Medical Education:

Supervised by the RNOH Medical Directorate and Director of Medical Education and will include attendance at the Medical Education Committee Meetings, supervision of journal club and teaching programmes + special project/course design/simulation training programme.

 

JCF+ Medical Information:

Supervised by RNOH Chief Medical Information Officer and will include experience of the various Digital Committees, MedTech project and Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration advisory/link role.

Working for our organisation

  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and offer a range of flexible working practices. Part-time and job share applications will be considered.

 

We reserve the right to close this advert early due to the volume of applicants. Please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The JCF+ Doctors will be involved in the day to day care of the patients on the wards under the supervision of the Specialist Registrars and Consultants.

Key responsibilities will include the perioperative management of orthopaedic surgical patients. Successful applicants will work in one of four teams alongside Core Surgical Trainees and RNOH Foundation Equivalent Programme doctors.

Person specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential criteria
  • • 2 years post Medical School experience i.e. Foundation Year 1 and 2 (or equivalent) completed
  • • Full GMC Registration and licence to practice
  • • Candidates should demonstrate experience and understanding of peri-operative assessment, common post-operative conditions and multi-disciplinary discharge to a community setting.
Desirable criteria
  • • Advanced Life Support (ALS) or equivalent.
  • • MRCS or equivalent

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Competent in basic procedures, physical examination, history taking, infection control.
  • • Understands current clinical issues in orthopaedics.
  • • Aware of own limitations, consults senior colleagues appropriately and knows when to ask for help.
  • • Understands the principles of patient confidentiality and data protection.
Desirable criteria
  • • Knowledge of UK health systems and practices including the relationship between primary and secondary care and inter professional relationships.
  • • Knowledge of current issues in the NHS.
  • • Understands the importance and impact of information systems in health care

Maintaining Clinical Competence

Essential criteria
  • • Keeps professional knowledge & skills up to date.
  • • Understand the basic principles of Audit i.e. understands the need for and appreciates the role of audit in clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
  • • Demonstrates a critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition.
  • • Evidence of participation in Audit.

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • • Demonstrates initiative, enthusiasm and common sense
  • • Respects and promotes individual rights, interests, preferences, beliefs and cultures
  • • Able to establish good working relations with patients, carers and multi-disciplinary colleagues.
  • • Able to communicate clearly in written and spoken English e.g. able to write legible records
Desirable criteria
  • • Understand the responsibilities of being an employee of the NHS
  • • Evidence of leadership qualities (not necessarily in medicine)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkBronze Trailblazer by Race Equality MattersDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldAccredited Menopause Friendly EmployerRoyal College of Anaesthetists AccreditedCareLeaver Covenant

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rachel Godfrey
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02089095532
Additional information

n/a

Apply online nowAlert me to similar vacancies