Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics

Job summary

This is a New Post within Sherwood Forest Hospitals

Full time (Minimum 10 PA) Hand and Wrist Trauma and Orthopaedics Consultant Surgeon with fellowship training in Hand and Wrist surgery.

This new consultant will join a team of Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultants providing trauma and elective orthopaedic services to Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. All trauma and emergency admissions are managed at Kings Mill Hospital site. The elective orthopaedic services are provided both at Kings Mill and Newark hospital. We have two Newark theatres that are dedicated to elective orthopaedics and are protected even during winter surge.

Trauma commitment includes weekly hot day activity (Virtual Fracture clinic and Trauma theatre) with 1 in 4 week day on call and 1 in 16 week end on calls . Interest in Surgical management of Upper Limb Trauma is desirable. Also should be competent with general Lower limb and paediatric trauma for emergency on calls.

Main duties of the job

Duties & responsibilities of the Post

1. provision with Consultant colleagues of a service to Sherwood Forest Hospitals, with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department;
2. out-of-hours responsibilities, including participation in Consultant on-call rota where applicable;
3. cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences;
4. any responsibility which relates to a special interest;
5. professional supervision and management of junior medical staff;
6. responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and nationally;
7. participating in medical audit;
8. managerial, including budgetary responsibilities where appropriate and compliance with standing orders and standing financial instructions of the Trust.

About us

The Department provides Orthopaedic services to King's Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital. The Trauma service is based at the Kings Mill Hospital.

The unit consists of two wards, one of these being protected for elective Orthopaedics. There is also a Day Case Unit with day case bed and overnight facility. There is a dedicated Trauma Admissions Unit on one of the trauma wards, and this enables fast tracking of selected trauma admissions such as fractured necks of femur.

We have close contacts with Physicians in the Department of Health Care of the Elderly, which enables rapid transfer of elderly patients into rehabilitation beds.

There are three dedicated Orthopaedic theatres with laminar flow at Kings Mill and one at Newark hospital. In addition one of the Day case theatre is laminar flow and for orthopaedic day case surgery. We have a full range of elective and trauma equipment.