Arthroplasty Fellow
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAlready thinking ahead to interview?
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Job overview
James Cook Regional Complex Arthroplasty Centre - Endeavour Senior Lower limb Arthroplasty Fellowship
This fellowship is designed to allow trained surgeons to increase their exposure to revision hip and knee arthroplasty and complex primary joint reconstruction. In addition to furthering complex arthroplasty skill set, the aim is to develop current and future Orthopaedic Consultant Leadership Capability for the NHS and to accelerate service transformation and quality improvement within and across trauma and orthopaedic services
Applications are invited for August 2027 for a period of 12 months.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be exposed to a wide variety of challenging lower limb arthroplasty reconstruction techniques in both the complex primary and revision setting. There is also the opportunity to gain exposure in the management of the Young Adult Hip, metastatic disease around the hip, robotic surgery and pelvic / acetabular work. The post holder would have exposure to independent operating and involvement in training of junior staff. Fellows perform 70-80% of cases as first operator and perform around 150 primary and around 70 revision cases in a 12 month period.
The Fellow would be expected to attend the local and regional revision MDTs (the Trust is a nationally appointed Major Revision Centre, and revision network hub covering the Tees Valley and North Yorkshire). They would be expected to take part in research and quality improvement projects. The department is a national exemplar for orthopaedic research and is linked to the South Tees Academic Centre for Surgery from which numerous NIHR studies have been developed, led and delivered. The successful candidate would be expected to deliver on several projects for publication. They would also be invited to departmental consultant meetings to witness the issues discussed in that forum.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further details and information are available on the attached job description and person specification.