Job Title
Oxford Trauma 'Registrar' / Locally Employed Doctor (LED)
Grade
ST3-8 (MT04) Equivalent
Specialty
Trauma Surgery
Reason for Vacancy
Fixed Term Contract
Supervising Consultant
Variable (all consultants are involved)
Clinical Supervisor
TBC
Full-time/Part-time
Full Time
Base Hospital
The John Radcliffe
Work Pattern
Full/Partial shift 1:10 rota, Average weekly hours 40, out of hours commitment applicable, includes prospective cover: Yes
Main Duties
The Trauma Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital comprises 48 dedicated inpatient beds for the management of adult trauma within Oxford, while also delivering Major Trauma Services to approximately 3.2 million residents across the Thames Valley region. Additional capacity includes admissions to the adjacent critical care unit, with paediatric trauma patients managed on designated children's wards.
The service is responsible for the definitive management of injured patients. We provide care for orthopaedic trauma patients, with treatment delivered collaboratively alongside other specialties as required, depending on the nature, severity, and overall burden of injury. Patients with multiple injuries are managed within a multidisciplinary framework.
The department maintains a particularly close working relationship with the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery service. The Trauma Service focuses exclusively on trauma care infections, soft tissue injuries, hand injuries, and cauda equina syndrome are managed by other specialist teams. However, the Trauma middle-grade team provides overnight support to the spinal service, including the management of trauma-related and metastatic spinal cord injuries.
About Us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles.
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
Job Description
The middle-grade workforce consists of six Specialty Trainees, one CESR trainee, and two to three Junior Clinical Fellows (including this post). A key component of the role is that all middle-grade doctors have equitable access to clinical training opportunities and share service commitments, including theatre participation, ISCP workplace-based assessments (WBAs), educational supervision, and regular Multi-Consultant Reviews (MCRs).
The Trauma Service operates a Consultant of the Week model to support its significant emergency workload. A dedicated, consultant-led on-call team is in place for each 24-hour period, comprising a consultant, middle-grade doctor, and Foundation Year 2 (F2) doctor working within a structured shift system. Following a multidisciplinary team (MDT) ward round and formal handover, the night team is relieved of duty the following day.
In addition, two consultants are allocated to lead the daily operating lists, while a fourth consultant undertakes outpatient clinics or ward rounds. Trainees are expected to actively support both theatre sessions and clinics as part of their clinical responsibilities.
Registrars work a rolling ten-week rota including on-call four and three night shifts blocks.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential:
* Full GMC with licence to practice
* Completed MBBS or equivalent
* Completion of Core surgical training or equivalent
* Hold MRCS
* Current ATLS Provider status
Desirable:
* Completed AO Basic Principles of Fracture Management course
* MSc / PhD in related field
* Experience and evidence of Audit, quality Improvement and Service Development
Experience
Essential:
* UK Core surgical training programme
* 12 months experience in Registrar level Trauma and Orthopaedics in UK MTC or TU
Desirable:
* Experience at 'Registrar' level at a Major Trauma Centre
* Teaching experience to both under and post-graduate level
Skills
Essential:
* The ability to run an unfiltered Major Trauma Take.
* The ability to organise and plan a surgical list involving complex injuries.
* The ability to lead a oncall / ward team including working closely with members of the MDT and other specialities
Contact
321-TP-MS-7955335-S6
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