Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery

Job responsibilities

General Duties

1. Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care

2. Leadership, development and organisation on the services in his/her charge in line with the Trusts business plans. Liaison and communication with the lead clinician, General Manager, Service Manager, Clinical Leads and Directors for Orthopaedic Surgery across the Trust, and the Surgery Board Chair.

3. A major contribution to the departments on-going efforts to improve efficiency in both the delivery and the management of patient care including the 18-week referral to treatment standard, reducing length of stay, meeting BOAST guidelines and managing the ratio of new to follow up outpatient attendances in line with commissioner expectations.

4. With the agreement of the Clinical Lead and Clinical Network Director, development of his/her own interests and specialisms within the speciality, including active participation in research programmes.

5. Corporate and individual responsibility for the professional management of doctors in training including the approval and monitoring of on calls and locum appointments.

Professional duties and Responsibilities:

1. To contribute to the provision of a comprehensive and efficient elective orthopaedic and trauma service by providing cover to consultant colleagues when leave is taken.

2. To provide evidence-based care for all inpatients and outpatients

3. To have regard at all times to all relevant clinical and quality standards including those set out in the Patients Charter, the 18 week waiting time standard and any local relevant agreements with commissioners.

4. To participate fully in the management of the department and to liaise closely with the Clinical Leads and Directors across the Trust.

5. The post holder may be required to carry out other duties in emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.

6. The duties outlined are not definite and may be changed in accordance with needs of the service requiring the post holder to be cooperative and flexible.

Experience

Essential

• Completed training in Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Teaching undergraduates and postgraduates
• Fellowship training in Foot & Ankle Surgery

Desirable

• Experience at consultant level working in a major trauma centre

Skills

Essential

• Presentation skills Team, interpersonal & communication skills
• Self-motivated with an enquiring, critical approach to work
• Ability to work under pressure
• Caring attitude to patients
• Commitment to continuing medical education
• Commitment to engage with Quality improvement processes and drive further development
• Take an active leadership role within the clinical environment
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level
• Reliable work record

Desirable

• Flexible approach to work and evidence of team working

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion on range of elective & emergency problems within specialty
• Able to take full independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Engage fully with both NATSSIPS and LOCSSIPS as required and develop these as required.

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with current licence to practice
• The candidate should be on the GMC specialist register or within 6-months of obtaining this.
• Evidence of participation in research (peer reviewed publications etc.)
• Foot & Ankle Fellowship training

Desirable

• Evidence of innovative approaches to healthcare
• Higher level research degree (MD or equivalent)

Other

Essential

• Audit experience
• Ability to advise on efficient & smooth running of a specialist service and to organise & manage outpatient priorities, surgical waiting & operating lists
• Experience of supervising doctors in training and in teaching clinical & operative skills
• Experience of research, presentations to learned societies on topics related to surgery
• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical/surgical problems
• Publications in indexed journals

Desirable

• Experience of audit management
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates

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

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UK Registration

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