Locum Consultant T&O Surgeon with a Special Interest in Foot & Ankle

Job overview

The Trust wishes to appoint a 6 month locum full time Orthopaedic consultant with a special interest in Foot and Ankle surgery. The appointee will join the present consultants, providing elective and trauma services.

The Humber Health Partnership provides services to the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and acts as a tertiary referral centre for complex cases such as foot and ankle, spine, paediatrics, non-unions and pelvic injuries.

The Department seeks to attract consultants with a specialist interest in Foot and Ankle Surgery.

This is a full time post with a basic job plan of 10Pas with the option to increase to 12PAs

The successful candidate would join the current on call rota of 1:7 and would contribute to the weekday office hour’s trauma clinics and trauma theatre.

Some of these cases are tertiary referrals from neighbouring NHS trust hospitals.

The successful candidate would join one other surgeon who currently undertakes Foot and Ankle Surgery at the Scunthorpe General hospital site.

• Administration Support An operational management team comprising of Senior General Manager, General Manager and Senior Service manager work closely with the department to support in effective delivery of services.

Main duties of the job

As a senior employee of the Trust the post holder will work in close co-operation with, and support, other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality health care to the trusts patients.

Integral to the responsibilities of the posts are the following requirements –

• To ensure the provision of a first class clinical service.
• To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the speciality.
• To undertake all work in accordance with the trusts procedures and operating policies.
• To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the trusts and business units services plans.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a senior employee of the Trust the post holder will work in close co-operation with, and support, other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality health care to the trusts patients.

Integral to the responsibilities of the posts are the following requirements –

• To ensure the provision of a first class clinical service.
• To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.
• To undertake all work in accordance with the trusts procedures and operating policies.
• To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the trusts and business units services plans.

Teaching/Training

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements –

• To provide conditions for improved training opportunities in line with national and local recommendations arising out of GMC and related requirements.
• To manage and supervise the work of his/her junior medical staff and participate in the training and development of these staff to the standards required by the Royal Colleges.
• To participate in the undergraduate teaching programme.

Clinical Governance

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements –

• To undertake all work in accordance with The Humber Health partnerships trust procedures and operating policies.
• To respond appropriately to complaints and critical incidents.
• Continuous professional development
• To participate in an annual job planning review process.
• Appraisal & Revalidation – Named appraiser allocated from the pool of trained appraisers to facilitate annual appraisal and revalidation when due. The trusts medical director acts as the responsible officer.
• To adhere to Trust adverse clinical incident policy.
• To ensure compliance with Trust mandatory training requirements.

Management (as agreed with clinical lead)

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements –

• To participate in departmental consultant and senior staff meetings.
• To attend other departmental, group, divisional and trust meetings as necessary.
• To attend regional and national meetings as necessary.
• To undertake all work in accordance with Trust procedures and operating policies.

Teamwork

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements –

• To work within the framework of team decisions
• To work with the wider health community
• To show initiative, enthusiasm and flexibility

Strategic Development

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements –

• Utilise electronic referrals and records. The system currently used is Dictate IT.
• Provide outstanding care to our patients.
• Develop service sub specialisation
• Develop cross site service strategy
• Ensure service is in upper quartile for Length of Stay, treatment of #NOF and infection rates.
• Regional healthcare reconfiguration in line with GIRFT recommendations, Regional service review and elective recovery requirements.

Accountability

• The post holder will be expected to undertake appraisal/revalidation and to respond to any identified development needs.
• The post holder will be immediately accountable to the clinical lead.