Job summary
- Main area
- Orthopaedic
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months ((10 PA) contact)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 321-NOTS-MS-6403328-S1
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Orthopaedic Consultant Hand/Upper Limb Surgeon
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
Location: Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
Contract: Fixed Term Contract approx. 9 months - Locum Hand Consultant – Full Time (10 PA)
The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, would like to appoint a Locum Orthopaedic Hand/Upper Limb Consultant Surgeon to join a dynamic team of consultant Upper Limb surgeons.
We have created this post in the hand and upper limb team for a fixed term locum consultant orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in hand surgery to assist the service with elective recovery and meeting the national RTT targets. The appointee will be expected to work flexibly within the hand and upper limb team and participate in the multi-disciplinary team in the management of patients with complex orthopaedic problems. They will be expected to participate in the on-call rota.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a new full time (10 PA) locum consultant to join our existing enthusiastic and experienced team of hand and upper limb surgeons.
The upper limb team is involved in many innovative initiatives to enhance the provision of hand and upper limb surgery and to continue to work closely with academic colleagues to build the evidence base for orthopaedic procedures.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a first-class team in an active and progressive university hospital environment. The service is closely aligned with the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal sciences at the University of Oxford, with many opportunities for collaboration.
You must be fully registered with the GMC/GDC and hold Licence to Practice and be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis, in consultation with consultant colleagues. Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.
All applications must be on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register or be within six months of obtaining their CCT at the time of interview.
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact:
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description attached to the advertisement for a summary of the role and an indicative job plan.
Person specification
GMC
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration and licence to practise
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- FRCS (Tr&Orth) or equivalent
- General training in Orthopaedics
- 12 months Fellowship in Hand and Wrist
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree
- CCT in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery OR on GMC Specialist Register in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery OR within six months of achieving CCT at time of interview
Experience
Essential criteria
- General training in Trauma & Orthopaedic surgery to specialist level or equivalent
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level
- Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital
- Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management. Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork within a multidisciplinary team.
- Basic IT skills
- Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees and of routine clinical audit.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of involvement in clinical management and participation in Clinical Governance
- Evidence of experience with electronic patient record and database administration and management
- Experience as tutor/clinical supervisor to students/junior medical staff
- Peer reviewed publications Research grants
- Access to transport
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
- Mr Nicholas Riley
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Consultant Hand/Upper Limb Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Mr Benjamin Dean - Consultant Hand/Upper Limb Surgeon
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