Job summary
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a leading orthopaedic centre of excellence. A specialist hospital with a reputation for innovation, the Trust provides a comprehensive range of musculoskeletal (bone, joint and tissue) surgical, medical and rehabilitation services; locally, regionally, and nationally.
We are now recruiting for our Oswestry Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship for a fixed term contract from 1st August 2024 to 1st August 2025.
NB Please note a separate Senior Fellowship is currently advertised commencing 2 August 2023.
This Oswestry Musculoskeletal Oncology Clinical Fellowship post is designed to accommodate a ST3 clinical doctor with a view to supporting experience and potentially advancement into orthopaedic training, a doctor who has completed or is completing their MRCS. The doctor will contribute to the provision of MSK Oncology orthopaedic surgery within the Trust. The post can be designed around the learning requirements of the postholder.
The Musculoskeletal Tumour Service at RJAH is one of the five Bone Sarcoma units commissioned by NHS England. It provides a comprehensive service in the diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant bone and soft tissue tumours. It is part of the Greater Manchester and Oswestry Sarcoma Service (GMOSS) along with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
1. Support all three consultants in their out-patient clinics.
2. Assist all three consultants in their theatre lists.
3. Assessment of new patients, with consultant supervision.
4. Clerk admissions where required and be responsible for the day-to-day care of in-patients.
5. Attendance on ward rounds.
6. Discharge requirements for in-patients.
7. To assist with any other aspects of patient care as appropriate.
8. To assist in clinic preparation duties
About us
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS Trust (RJAH) is one of the leading orthopaedic hospitals in the country, with some of the highest levels of staff and patient satisfaction, as well as a strong reputation for research and innovation.
Our Theatre Unit at RJAH comprises of 12 Theatres. We cover a wide spectrum of primarily elective Orthopaedic surgery including, but not exclusively, Revision & Primary Arthroplasty, Upper limb, Lower Limb, Sports Injuries, Spines, Tumour and Paediatrics.The hospital has six inpatient wards, including a private patient ward.
Shropshire is also one of the most attractive parts of the country, with a rich historic culture and excellent transport links. The hospital is located on a site outside
Oswestry, just off the A5. The nearest train station is in Gobowen, approximately two miles from the hospital. The station is part of the Chester toBirmingham line.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This Oswestry Musculoskeletal Oncology Clinical Fellowship post is designed to accommodate a ST3 clinical doctor with a view to supporting experience and potentially advancement into orthopaedic training, a doctor who has completed or is completing their MRCS. The doctor will contribute to the provision of MSK Oncology orthopaedic surgery within the Trust. The post can be designed around the learning requirements of the postholder.
The Trust is one of the UKs five Specialist Orthopaedic Centres and is a leading orthopaedic centre of excellence with a reputation for innovation. The Trusts strategic vision is to aspiring to deliver world class patient care. This vision depicts the Trusts ambition to be the leading centre for high quality, sustainable orthopaedic and related care, achieving excellence in both experience and outcomes for our patients. The Trust is already a leader in this field with exceptionally low infection rates, excellent clinical outcomes and rated as the best in the UK in the 2016/17 National Inpatients Survey and one of the top performing NHS Trusts in the country for the Family and friends test.
The Trust provides both specialist and routine Orthopaedic care to its local catchment area and nationally. It is a specialist centre for the treatment of spinal injuries and disorders and provides specialist treatment for children with musculoskeletal disorders. It also works with partner organisation to provide specialist treatment for bone tumours and community based rheumatology services.
The Trust provides services for a population well in excess of 750,000 people. The normal catchment area includes Shropshire, North Wales, Mid Wales, Merseyside, Cheshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent. The hospital receives secondary and tertiary referrals from an even wider area due to the specialist nature of its work.
Bone Tumour Service
The Musculoskeletal Tumour Service at RJAH is one of the five Bone Sarcoma units commissioned by NHS England. It provides a comprehensive service in the diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant bone and soft tissue tumours. It is part of the Greater Manchester and Oswestry Sarcoma Service (GMOSS) along with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
This appointment is to join the existing team of 3 consultants. The Montgomery Unit, a purpose built Musculoskeletal Oncology Unit, opened in 2016. It has a clinic suite of 3 consulting rooms, a treatment room, physiotherapy room, reception area, consultants office/conference room, secretarial and nursing offices.
Within the same new build is Oswald Ward which has ten single bed en-suite rooms, Baschurch Day Surgical Unit and the High Dependency Unit.
Our Services
The RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital is a 169 bedded specialist hospital, dealing primarily with elective Orthopaedics. Shropshire, North and Mid Wales. There are a number of specialised Units within the hospital including; Arthroplasty, Rheumatology, The West Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries (MCSI), Department of Spinal Disorders, Foot and Ankle, Hand and Microsurgery, Musculoskeletal Tumours and the Paediatric Orthopaedic Department and a Care of the Elderly until August 2021 Page 2 of 5 Unit. The Arthritis Research Centre was opened in 1996 highlighting the research activity for which the hospital is known. With a continuous increase in activity, over 11,500 procedures are performed in our theatres each year.
The placement is for a post graduate orthopaedic surgeon who has a commitment to a career in orthopaedic surgery, with a secondary interest in research.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support all three consultants in their out-patient clinics.
- Assist all three consultants in their theatre lists.
- Assessment of new patients, with consultant supervision.
- Clerk admissions where required and be responsible for the day-to-day care of in-patients.
- Attendance on ward rounds.
- Discharge requirements for in-patients.
- To assist with any other aspects of patient care as appropriate.
- To assist in clinic preparation duties
Rota
Duties will be Monday to Friday with time flexibility required within a normal working day. The are no Twilight, Night or Weekend shift requirement with this post.
A suggested timetable is as follows
am
pm
Mon
Surgical planning, ward MDT, clinic
Research & audit
Tue
Theatre
Theatre
Wed
Clinic
Regional MDT
Thurs
Diagnostic MDT
Theatre
Fri
Clinic
CPD/other theatre opportunity
The Trust Medical Structure
The junior staffing at Oswestry consists of 18 Specialty Registrars in training who will usually be in the more senior years of training (ST5 ST8), working alongside 4/5 Service Grade Registrars.
At present there are 43 consultant orthopaedic surgeons working at the Trust. The Surgeons are divided into the following units:
- Arthroplasty
- Spinal Surgery
- Musculoskeletal Oncology
- Sports Injuries
- Lower Limb
- Hand and Upper Limb
- Foot and Ankle
- Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
- Professorial
There is an outstanding Musculoskeletal Radiology Department with MRI, ultrasound and CT scanning, with 5 full-time specialist Musculoskeletal Radiologists.
Library Facilities
The Francis Costello Library provides a high quality multidisciplinary service to improve patient care and support clinical effectiveness research, education and lifelong learning for all, encouraging use of the evidence base in all aspects of RJAH activity to support the Trust to be the leading orthopaedic centre in the UK.
The library offers over 4000 books and journals covering all health related disciplines but with a specialist emphasis on orthopaedic and musculoskeletal medicine. Specialist journals are also available, many electronically via ATHENS password, and the library also provides an article request service for papers which are not available within our own stock. Mediated literature searches, help and advice and a comprehensive information skills training programme are also available.
The library works in close alliance with other health libraries within the area and in a recent survey of educational resources for doctors in training the Trust scored highly.
** See attachments for full job description **
Job description
Job responsibilities
This Oswestry Musculoskeletal Oncology Clinical Fellowship post is designed to accommodate a ST3 clinical doctor with a view to supporting experience and potentially advancement into orthopaedic training, a doctor who has completed or is completing their MRCS. The doctor will contribute to the provision of MSK Oncology orthopaedic surgery within the Trust. The post can be designed around the learning requirements of the postholder.
The Trust is one of the UKs five Specialist Orthopaedic Centres and is a leading orthopaedic centre of excellence with a reputation for innovation. The Trusts strategic vision is to aspiring to deliver world class patient care. This vision depicts the Trusts ambition to be the leading centre for high quality, sustainable orthopaedic and related care, achieving excellence in both experience and outcomes for our patients. The Trust is already a leader in this field with exceptionally low infection rates, excellent clinical outcomes and rated as the best in the UK in the 2016/17 National Inpatients Survey and one of the top performing NHS Trusts in the country for the Family and friends test.
The Trust provides both specialist and routine Orthopaedic care to its local catchment area and nationally. It is a specialist centre for the treatment of spinal injuries and disorders and provides specialist treatment for children with musculoskeletal disorders. It also works with partner organisation to provide specialist treatment for bone tumours and community based rheumatology services.
The Trust provides services for a population well in excess of 750,000 people. The normal catchment area includes Shropshire, North Wales, Mid Wales, Merseyside, Cheshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent. The hospital receives secondary and tertiary referrals from an even wider area due to the specialist nature of its work.
Bone Tumour Service
The Musculoskeletal Tumour Service at RJAH is one of the five Bone Sarcoma units commissioned by NHS England. It provides a comprehensive service in the diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant bone and soft tissue tumours. It is part of the Greater Manchester and Oswestry Sarcoma Service (GMOSS) along with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
This appointment is to join the existing team of 3 consultants. The Montgomery Unit, a purpose built Musculoskeletal Oncology Unit, opened in 2016. It has a clinic suite of 3 consulting rooms, a treatment room, physiotherapy room, reception area, consultants office/conference room, secretarial and nursing offices.
Within the same new build is Oswald Ward which has ten single bed en-suite rooms, Baschurch Day Surgical Unit and the High Dependency Unit.
Our Services
The RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital is a 169 bedded specialist hospital, dealing primarily with elective Orthopaedics. Shropshire, North and Mid Wales. There are a number of specialised Units within the hospital including; Arthroplasty, Rheumatology, The West Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries (MCSI), Department of Spinal Disorders, Foot and Ankle, Hand and Microsurgery, Musculoskeletal Tumours and the Paediatric Orthopaedic Department and a Care of the Elderly until August 2021 Page 2 of 5 Unit. The Arthritis Research Centre was opened in 1996 highlighting the research activity for which the hospital is known. With a continuous increase in activity, over 11,500 procedures are performed in our theatres each year.
The placement is for a post graduate orthopaedic surgeon who has a commitment to a career in orthopaedic surgery, with a secondary interest in research.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support all three consultants in their out-patient clinics.
- Assist all three consultants in their theatre lists.
- Assessment of new patients, with consultant supervision.
- Clerk admissions where required and be responsible for the day-to-day care of in-patients.
- Attendance on ward rounds.
- Discharge requirements for in-patients.
- To assist with any other aspects of patient care as appropriate.
- To assist in clinic preparation duties
Rota
Duties will be Monday to Friday with time flexibility required within a normal working day. The are no Twilight, Night or Weekend shift requirement with this post.
A suggested timetable is as follows
am
pm
Mon
Surgical planning, ward MDT, clinic
Research & audit
Tue
Theatre
Theatre
Wed
Clinic
Regional MDT
Thurs
Diagnostic MDT
Theatre
Fri
Clinic
CPD/other theatre opportunity
The Trust Medical Structure
The junior staffing at Oswestry consists of 18 Specialty Registrars in training who will usually be in the more senior years of training (ST5 ST8), working alongside 4/5 Service Grade Registrars.
At present there are 43 consultant orthopaedic surgeons working at the Trust. The Surgeons are divided into the following units:
- Arthroplasty
- Spinal Surgery
- Musculoskeletal Oncology
- Sports Injuries
- Lower Limb
- Hand and Upper Limb
- Foot and Ankle
- Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
- Professorial
There is an outstanding Musculoskeletal Radiology Department with MRI, ultrasound and CT scanning, with 5 full-time specialist Musculoskeletal Radiologists.
Library Facilities
The Francis Costello Library provides a high quality multidisciplinary service to improve patient care and support clinical effectiveness research, education and lifelong learning for all, encouraging use of the evidence base in all aspects of RJAH activity to support the Trust to be the leading orthopaedic centre in the UK.
The library offers over 4000 books and journals covering all health related disciplines but with a specialist emphasis on orthopaedic and musculoskeletal medicine. Specialist journals are also available, many electronically via ATHENS password, and the library also provides an article request service for papers which are not available within our own stock. Mediated literature searches, help and advice and a comprehensive information skills training programme are also available.
The library works in close alliance with other health libraries within the area and in a recent survey of educational resources for doctors in training the Trust scored highly.
** See attachments for full job description **
Person Specification
Professional Registration and Membership
Essential
- Registration with the General Medical Council and no restrictions on practice.
- MRCS (or equivalent)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Four years' postgraduate orthopaedic experience
- Demonstrates ability to perform minor orthopaedic surgery unsupervised
- Evidence of competence in managing surgical complications and the surgically ill patient
Research and audit
Essential
- Evidence of personally conducted research or audit
- Evidences understanding of the principles of clinical governance
Desirable
- Evidence based practice and guideline development experience
Person Specification
Professional Registration and Membership
Essential
- Registration with the General Medical Council and no restrictions on practice.
- MRCS (or equivalent)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Four years' postgraduate orthopaedic experience
- Demonstrates ability to perform minor orthopaedic surgery unsupervised
- Evidence of competence in managing surgical complications and the surgically ill patient
Research and audit
Essential
- Evidence of personally conducted research or audit
- Evidences understanding of the principles of clinical governance
Desirable
- Evidence based practice and guideline development experience
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.
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.
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
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHSFT
Twmpath Lane
Oswestry
SY10 7AG
Employer's website
https://www.rjah.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
