Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic-Upper Limb, Hand & Wrist

Job overview

This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the largest and most progressive Trauma & Orthopaedic departments in the UK, serving a diverse population of over 700,000 across South East London. Based primarily at Denmark Hill, with elective activity at the dedicated Orthopaedic Centre in Orpington, the department delivers high-volume elective surgery alongside complex trauma care within a nationally recognised Major Trauma Centre.

Main duties of the job

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a replacement Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and developing care for orthopaedic trauma patients, and to provide and develop trauma surgery services at King’s as well as trauma and elective upper limb (Hand and Wrist) cases. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

PURPOSE OF JOB

The post will be primarily based at King’s College Hospital (Denmark Hill site) with a commitment to providing surgical services at any other Trust site. The evolution of regional integrated care systems may also require the post holder to work flexibly within the region in the future. The proposed Job Plan is attached. There will be an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care, with the remainder being allocated for Supporting Professional and/or other Activities. The On-Call commitment is for a 1:12 rota which is classed as Category A.

As a senior employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:-

• The provision of a first class clinical service
• Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
• Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London
• Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies
• Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans
• Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To provide support and delivery of orthopaedic trauma care for adult and paediatric patients in keeping with the requirements of the Major Trauma service in Denmark Hill.
• To provide and support delivery of elective orthopaedic services (Upper limb – Predominantly Hand and Wrist for adults and children) in line with the department’s status as a tertiary referral centre.
• To work alongside the existing Ortho plastics team to provide comprehensive integrated care for patients with combined complex orthopaedic and soft tissue injuries.
• To be an integral part of the wider trauma team including general, vascular, neuro and cardiothoracic surgical teams.
• To organise, guide and promote the dialogue and cooperate with any other subspeciality surgeon in the process of decision making and emergency surgery.
• To be responsible for the day to day management of elective and trauma and upper limb patients on the wards.
• To contribute to King’s subspecialty training. The consultant will be expected to supervise, govern, cooperate with, instruct, teach doctors at SCF, SpR, JCF, SHO, F1/F2 level in their clinical work and audit activity of the unit. The Department is proactively involved with student teaching and regular student teaching is mandatory for the postholder.
• To contribute to the on call rota on a regular basis (weekdays 1:12 and 1:12 weekends (Friday to Sunday).
• The post holder is expected to attend relevant MDT meetings.
• Clinical supervision of junior medical staff as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
• Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to Continuing Medical Education and clinical governance initiatives.
• Responsible for out-patient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed by the Liver, Renal & Surgery Divisional management team.
• To contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.
• To contribute to the Audit Programme.
• To take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Division’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with both internal and external agencies.
• To conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for surgical services.
• To exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
• To work in conjunction with clinical and professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for junior colleagues.
• To undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Clinical Director.
• To be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene. To undertake annual training/updates in infection prevention and control.
• To be accountable for implementation of the Code of Practice within own department/area of responsibility.
• To prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice and maintaining patient safety.