# Post CCT Fellow in Shoulder and Elbow

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- **Location:** Tunbridge Wells Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £76,582 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Full time plus on call commitment)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-03T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20T13:20:48.974Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Tunbridge_Wells/Maidstone_Tunbridge_Wells_NHS_Trust/Trauma_Orthopaedics/Trauma_Orthopaedics-v8244469
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8244469?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.mtw.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

### Main duties of the job

The fellow will attend elective and fracture upper limb clinics. They will enjoy supervised operating of both elective and trauma shoulder and elbow patients, as well as independent operating on parallel theatre lists and unsupervised lists. On-call commitment is required as per the rota.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list.

All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date has been agreed.

As part of your induction, you will be required to attend face-to-face training sessions and/or complete e-learning modules relevant to your role. If you have previously worked for another NHS organisation before joining Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW), we can transfer eligible mandatory training records where appropriate, helping to avoid unnecessary duplication of learning.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Evidence of leadership
- Organisational ability
- Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations
- Able to get on with other members of the multi disciplinary team
- Credibility and integrity
- A sympathetic approach to patients and relatives

**Desirable**

- Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
- To have undertaken a postgraduate communication skills course

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- MBBS or Equivalent
- GMC Registration
- Possession or within 6 months of CCT
- FRCS (Orth) or equivalent

**Desirable**

- Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
- Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc MD

### Research/Audit

**Essential**

- An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
- Understand the principles of audit

**Desirable**

- Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Evidence of participation in audit projects

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 63.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2762)
- [tips when completing your application (pdf, 50.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2920)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10555814)

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