Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Job overview

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust would like to appoint a Consultant Orthopaedic to specialise in the delivery of trauma surgery.

The Trauma & Orthopaedic department leads on all poly-trauma cases ensuring that all trauma is managed appropriately. The orthopaedic ward has been converted into the ‘trauma unit’ where all trauma patients, excluding patients with a serious head injury, will be managed along with orthopaedic trauma and elective orthopaedic work. Trauma cases are currently overseen by the orthopaedic consultant of the week, with this consultant changing on a rotational basis. The consultant post will support the busy knee elective and trauma teams. There will be the opportunity to gain significant experience working alongside a team of specialist surgeons. The Major Trauma Centre is led by the T & O department and works on a 7-day consultant of the week model. At the weekends there is partial double consultant cover.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to fulfil their clinical and managerial responsibilities as follows;

Elective Commitments and Clinical Duties

The post holder will be contracted for 10 programmed activities per week. 9 PA will be direct clinical commitment including major trauma on-call week (at present 1:20), out of hours on-call (at present 1:14), outpatients, MDT and operating lists.

1 PA is allocated for supporting activities including the completion of non-clinical administrative work, work needed for participation in national registries and other local administration.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

It is expected that the post holder will complete their supporting activity through attendance at the care group’s operational management meeting, the orthopaedic clinical governance meeting (including presenting on morbidity and mortality) and through teaching commitments. Where these activities are timetabled to occur at the same time as other programmed activities the post holder will ensure that appropriate and timely arrangements are made to enable their attendance.