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Job requirements
Essential
4 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in relevant specialty. • Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of both emergency and elective orthopaedics. • Trauma Fellowship with focus on pelvic and acetabular reconstruction • Demonstrable commitment to a career in trauma surgery
- Qualifications
Meets all Essential
- Knowledge & Skills
Thorough and detailed knowledge of medical audit, medical education, current clinical and medical best practice. • Understanding of the Clinical Governance process. • Ability to lead, communicate, liaise and negotiate with others • Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service. • Ability to motivate, innovate and support staff of all disciplines • Ability to organise and manage out patient priorities, waiting times/lists. • Ability to manage and lead clinical team. • Competent in basic information technology.
- Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. • Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience in fix and replace techniques for acetabular fractures • Ability to perform total hip arthroplasty for trauma
- Qualifications
Meets all Desirable
- Knowledge & Skills
Further skills in information technology. • Experience of service development
Job overview
The successful candidates will have a major interest in orthopaedic trauma management with particular focus on pelvic and acetabular trauma. An elective interest will also be accommodated assuming it fits with the needs of the department. They will be one of 2 lead trauma consultants within one of the 4 orthopaedic trauma teams, each team being made up of 4 consultants. The more senior trauma lead consultants within each clinical team will provide mentorship to the successful candidates and joint operating is encouraged for more complex cases.
They will be based mainly at the University Hospital site and will take on the continued management of multiply injured patients. The successful candidates will have a central role in the ongoing development of trauma pathways and the trauma service as a whole. The on-call rota is approximately 1 in 8 and the successful candidate will be expected to take a full part in the adult trauma rota.
Main duties of the job
Consultant appointments are made to the University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust; as services are developed and changed, the base of posts may alter and any employee of the Trust will be expected, within an agreed clinical strategy, to move his/her sessions as the service requires.
In particular, your attention is drawn to the fact that the post advertised may include routine evening and week-end working as part of the working arrangements for the new hospital the details of which are currently under discussion. The specific scheduling of such activities would be subject to mutual agreement and may be agreed at a later date in the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will participate in the consultant-led paediatric trauma service to maintain high quality trauma care with consultant involvement in early operative work and fracture clinic supervision. They will be involved in the comprehensive paediatric elective service.
As well as general paediatric elective work, the successful applicant will be expected to take on a sub-specialist role sharing the management of the developmental dysplasia of the hip and clubfoot service in order to compliment the interests and sub-specialities of the current post holders. Experience within other specific areas of paediatric orthopaedics is desirable but not essential, for example, limb reconstruction, pelvic and hip surgery, or foot & ankle surgery.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Consultant Trauma with an interest in Pelvic Trauma Surgery with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in Coventry, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 14 Oct 2026.
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