# Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedics > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-trauma-and-orthopaedics/a071f617-8432-4823-9ff9-c15a778e0e94 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-trauma-and-orthopaedics/a071f617-8432-4823-9ff9-c15a778e0e94.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** Worcester - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 to £150,569 a year - **Contract type:** Fixed-Term - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-06-24T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-10T15:37:39.382Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9365-26-6515?employerCode=C9365 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/C9365-26-6515/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=C9365-26-6515 - **Employer website:** https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to recruit a Locum Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics. Successful candidates will join a team of 10 Surgeons. The post will have a special interest and experience in knee arthroplasty surgery. The Directorate provides services across 3 hospital sites within the county of Worcestershire. The candidate will benefit from working within a friendly and experienced team of 26. As a Trust we have been actively involved in developing the training program for students from the Three Counties Medical School based in Worcester which opened in September 2023. We also have a long-established role in training medical students from the University of Birmingham and undergraduates from the University of Warwick. Interested candidates are invited to contact Mr Usman Ahmed-uahmed@nhs.netto discuss the opportunity. ### Main duties of the job This is a replacement post for a Consultant in Knee and Lower Limb Reconstruction. The successful applicant will provide elective knee clinics at Alexandra Hospital Redditch. They will undertake a regular knee operating list at Alexandra hospital, with access to dual consultant operating and support for complex/revision cases where required. A regular day-case arthroscopy/soft-tissue knee list will run at the KTC site. The post holder will contribute to the trauma rota and support the delivery of lower limb trauma surgery. They will also participate in MDT working including knee MDT and complex case discussions. ### About us Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond. The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them. We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do. Being open and honest Ensuring people feel cared for Showing respect to everyone We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System. We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer. DBS Checks and Costs Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs. ### Details - Date posted: 10 June 2026 - Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff - Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year - Contract: Fixed term - Duration: 9 months - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: C9365-26-6515 - Job locations: Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements. - A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners. - The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course. - The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital. - The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care. - The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings. - The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trust's and departmental objectives. - The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post. - The Trust would expect a consultant whilst undertaking on-call duties to attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on call must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member of their medical and nursing team. - The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews. ## Job Details Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to recruit a Locum Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics. Successful candidates will join a team of 10 Surgeons. The post will have a special interest and experience in knee arthroplasty surgery. The Directorate provides services across 3 hospital sites within the county of Worcestershire. The candidate will benefit from working within a friendly and experienced team of 26. As a Trust we have been actively involved in developing the training program for students from the Three Counties Medical School based in Worcester which opened in September 2023. We also have a long-established role in training medical students from the University of Birmingham and undergraduates from the University of Warwick. Interested candidates are invited to contact Mr Usman Ahmed-uahmed@nhs.netto discuss the opportunity. ## Job Description This is a replacement post for a Consultant in Knee and Lower Limb Reconstruction. The successful applicant will provide elective knee clinics at Alexandra Hospital Redditch. They will undertake a regular knee operating list at Alexandra hospital, with access to dual consultant operating and support for complex/revision cases where required. A regular day-case arthroscopy/soft-tissue knee list will run at the KTC site. The post holder will contribute to the trauma rota and support the delivery of lower limb trauma surgery. They will also participate in MDT working including knee MDT and complex case discussions. ## Responsibilities This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements. A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners. The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course. The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital. The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care. The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings. The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trust's and departmental objectives. The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post. The Trust would expect a consultant whilst undertaking on-call duties to attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on call must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member of their medical and nursing team. The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Knees - Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty - Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients - Expertise in sub-specialty ### Qualifications **Essential** - Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise. - Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent **Desirable** - Higher degree - Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Knee (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via - -CCT or CESR (CP) - -CESR or - -European Community Rights ### Research Experience **Essential** - Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems - An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative **Desirable** - Publications in relevant peer- reviewed journals in the last 5 years - Evidence of having undertaken original research ### Teaching Experience **Essential** - Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines - Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates **Desirable** - Ability to supervise postgraduate research ### Management & Administrative Experience **Essential** - Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively - Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service - Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities - Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi-disciplinary team - Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit **Desirable** - Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate - Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making ## Documents - [DBS Applicant Costs Infomation (PDF, 154 KB)](document:2953629) - [Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 536 KB)](document:2953628) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.