Job requirements
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Teaching experience
Ability to teach and communicate clinical and operative skills
- Teaching experience
To supervise junior staff postgraduate learning programmes
- Teaching experience
Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates
- Teaching experience
Interest in taking part in post graduate research or service improvement
- Research and audit experience
Evidence of Audit Management
- Research and audit experience
First name publications in refereed journals
- Research and audit experience
Evidence of audits completed
- Research and audit experience
Research in progress
- Research and audit experience
Evidence of the ability to apply research outcomes to clinical/surgical problems
- Clinical training and experience
Experience in hand & Wrist surgery and trauma work
- Clinical training and experience
Ability to take full independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Clinical training and experience
Greater than 2 years orthopaedic registrar level experience with 6 months Hand and Wrist experience
- Clinical training and experience
Experience of working in the NHS for minimum of 4 months
- Additional Postgraduate Qualifications
FRCS or equivalent
- Management and administration training and experience
Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialty service
- Management and administration training and experience
Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists
- Management and administration training and experience
Ability to work within sub-speciality team
- Management and administration training and experience
Log book evidence of exposure to hand and wrist surgery
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Clinical training and experience
Interest in working towards hand diploma
- Management and administration training and experience
Evidence of involvement in audit and research projects
Job overview
University Hospitals Dorset is looking to appoint a Senior Clinical Fellow in Hand and Wrist Surgery. The 12 month fellowship is supervised by Miss Joanna Higgins and Jeremy Southgate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be employed in the Trauma & Orthopaedic Directorate, working between Bournemouth Hospital (elective), Wimborne Hospital (elective) and Poole Hospital (trauma). All aspects of elective and traumatic conditions affecting the hand and wrist are covered between the two sites. These include wrist fracture fixation, scaphoid surgery to include non-unions, soft tissue hand trauma, arthroplasty of the small joints of the hand, thumb base and wrist, arthroscopic wrist surgery and nerve decompression. The full range of hand and wrist surgery is covered, with potential to spend time in The Pulvertaft Hand Unit in Derby (up to two weeks every six months) to cover congenital hand, flap reconstruction and flexor tendon surgery. The aim of this fellowship is to offer particular emphasis on the training and quality improvement in hand and wrist surgery, both elective and trauma. There will be weekend working expected in this role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
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.
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This advert is for Senior Clinical Hand and Wrist Fellow in Orthopaedics with University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in Poole, England. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery role. The advertised salary is £76,582 Per Annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Fixed 12 month term). The application deadline is 29 Sep 2026.
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