Consultant Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon

Job overview

West London Children’s Healthcare (WLCH) are pleased to invite applications for one full time (10PA) Consultant Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, with an interest in Paediatric Knee Surgery, based at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital campus.

On 1st April 2022, paediatric and child health services across Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust came together under a single and integrated governance and leadership structure creating WLCH.

We have an ambitious vision to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people across West London through collaboration of clinical teams and by building stronger, equitable common care pathways with close links to research and education colleagues at Imperial College.

WLCH runs paediatric services from four sites, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, West Middlesex, Hammersmith Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital. In addition, we are working in partnership with other acute providers in NWL and with our partners in community, mental health, local borough and voluntary sector services to improve care for all children and young people.

Stakeholder Assessment and Interview will take place on Wednesday 8th July  2026.

Main duties of the job

This is a full-time (10 PA) Consultant post, primarily based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. The post holder will play a key role in the delivery of Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic services across inpatient, theatre, and outpatient settings. The postholder should have a specialist interest in Paediatric Knee Surgery.

The successful applicants will join our paediatric orthopaedic department, consisting of a team of committed individuals who provide secondary and tertiary services for children with a wide range of orthopaedic problems. Multidisciplinary team working underpins the services that we provide and has been the foundation that has enabled us to develop and provide excellent care for children and young people with a wide variety and complexity of orthopaedic conditions. More complex patients require liaison with other teams within the division in addition to adult surgical specialties.

The applicant would be expected to participate in the current busy paediatric orthopaedic and emergency work of the department and participate in providing clinical and educational support to the extended scope physiotherapy practitioners. Multidisciplinary team working is fundamental to our provision of high quality paediatric orthopaedic care with an increasing tertiary workload.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information.

The job description gives a general outline of the duties of the post and is not intended to be inflexible or a finite list of tasks.  It may be varied from time to time after consultation with the post holder and in particular during regular job plan review where the strategic direction of the Trust or its constituent departments requires it