King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Trauma Senior Clinical Fellowship in Orthopaedics

The closing date is 16 September 2025

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Job summary

This is a unique opportunity to apply for the post of Senior Orthopaedic Trauma Fellow at King's College Hospital Major Trauma Centre

In October 2020, the trauma and orthopaedics service at Denmark Hill joined the service at the Princess Royal University Hospital site to create an integrated, cross-site centre of excellence in the treatment of Orthopaedics.

The Trauma & Orthopaedics department is one of the largest Orthopaedic departments in the region serving a population in excess of 700,000. The department currently has 24 orthopaedic surgeons and in addition to providing elective and trauma services to its local population, the division offers a range of tertiary services.

King's College Hospital is a Major Trauma Centre and is responsible for the South East London, Kent and Medway (SELKAM) Trauma Network. As a Major Trauma Centre King's is a specialist hospital that is able to care for the most severely injured patients, with consultants available 24-hours a day, 7-days a week with the necessary resources and skills to treat complex and sometimes multiple injuries.

Elective inpatient and some daycase work is carried out at Orpington Hospital at the Elective Orthopaedic Centre, almost all aspects of elective Orthopaedics are catered for here. The hospital site has three orthopaedic ultra clean theatres, along with a recovery area and two elective orthopaedic wards.

Main duties of the job

The Fellow will be part of the Trauma Firm. The Fellow will be involved predominantly in management of trauma patients and the provision of care for all Orthopaedic Trauma cases. All trauma subspecialties are available onsite including pelvic surgery, limb reconstruction, orthoplastics and complex periarticular fracture surgery. This post will have integrated teaching and research commitments. There will be opportunities to develop operative skills in percutaneous pelvic/acetabular fracture fixation surgery and in 'Mini-max' complex periarticular fracture fixation surgery.

The trauma fellows will be able to rotate each between specialities (specifically a pelvic trauma, orthoplastics, and periarticular) and/or have the option of a complete 'trauma-pod' pan-specialty fellowship. Allocation to the subspecialties will be dependent on the educational requirement of all the trauma fellows.

About us

The budgetary and management structure of King's is divided into Divisions. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery is a cross site division and incorporates trauma and elective surgery both at The PRUH and Denmark Hill. The Division also has an elective facility based at Orpington hospital with four operating theatres, an admissions ward and a post operative ward facility.

Trauma and Orthopaedics represents its own Care Group in the hospital management structure. The Care Group is led by Clinical Director - Mr Abihnav Gulihar. The Clinical Director is supported by Clinical leads at the Denmark Hill site and Princess Royal sites, with separate Governance leads at each site. The Care Group General Manager is Ms Hannah Jackson and Cyril Noone is The Head Of Nursing.

The Trust director for major trauma services is Mr Malcolm Tunnicliffe. The regional Major Trauma Network also has its own Clinical Director and is organised via daily multi-disciplinary trauma clinical meetings and weekly review meetings.

Details

Date posted

02 September 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

£79,038 to £87,486 a year Per annum, plus London Zones £2,162

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

213-DH-7439554

Job locations

Kings College Hospital

Denmark Hill

Camberwell

SE5 9RS


Job description

Job responsibilities

The post will be based at Denmark Hill and this will be reviewed within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trusts sites as required by the service. As an employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trusts patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following: -

The provision of a first class clinical service.

Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.

Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with Kings College London / KHP.

Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trusts procedures and operating policies.

Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trusts service plans.

Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post will be based at Denmark Hill and this will be reviewed within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trusts sites as required by the service. As an employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trusts patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following: -

The provision of a first class clinical service.

Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.

Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with Kings College London / KHP.

Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trusts procedures and operating policies.

Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trusts service plans.

Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • medical degree
  • mrcs
  • Completed SpR level training in Trauma and Orthopaedics
  • Full registration (or eligible for full registration) with the General Medical Council
  • FRCS (Orth)

Desirable

  • CCST (Completion Certificate of Training)
Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • medical degree
  • mrcs
  • Completed SpR level training in Trauma and Orthopaedics
  • Full registration (or eligible for full registration) with the General Medical Council
  • FRCS (Orth)

Desirable

  • CCST (Completion Certificate of Training)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kings College Hospital

Denmark Hill

Camberwell

SE5 9RS


Employer's website

https://www.kch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kings College Hospital

Denmark Hill

Camberwell

SE5 9RS


Employer's website

https://www.kch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Medical Staffing Manager

Sarah Pinel

sarahpinel@nhs.net

02032997672

Details

Date posted

02 September 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

£79,038 to £87,486 a year Per annum, plus London Zones £2,162

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

213-DH-7439554

Job locations

Kings College Hospital

Denmark Hill

Camberwell

SE5 9RS


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