Main area Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant Grade Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (with 1:4 on-call commitment) Job ref 321-MS-CON-7479682-S5
Employer Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site John Radcliffe
Town Oxford
Salary £109,725 - £145,478 Per Annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 08/11/2025 23:59
Substantive - Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant
Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS 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 of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton 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.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
CONSULTANT IN PAEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
Applications are invited for the above post for the Department of Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Children’s Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust with additional clinical duties in Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust.
This is the first advert for this substantive post. We are an established team of 4 consultants, specialist nurses and physiotherapists, a senior clinical fellow and Deanery resident doctors, and a renowned Gait Laboratory. The service provides an elective Paediatric Orthopaedic service to the Oxford region, working closely with a multidisciplinary team, and developing the service further to support colleagues in regional hospitals across Thames Valley. We are looking for a colleague who can help us towards building this service further.
Potential candidates are invited to speak with Mr Alex Lee, Clinical Director of the Children’s Directorate, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Alex.Lee@ouh.nhs.uk), Mr Andrew Wainwright, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery Oxford University Hospitals (Andrew.Wainwright@ouh.nhs.uk), and the other consultants in the team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder’s duties will be based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Children’s Hospital Oxford. It is a condition of the appointment that the post holder will be willing to work in any of OUH Trust’s locations and will have some regular clinical activity based at Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust (i.e. Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe Hospitals).
Clinical
This post is to join an enthusiastic and thriving clinical service, and to further develop its regional clinical network. The position is available on a 10 PA job plan basis with 1:4 on-call commitment, (with no trauma).
Objectives of the post
To provide a high quality secondary and tertiary paediatric orthopaedic service to the children and adolescents of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley, and neighbouring counties.
To support the multidisciplinary team and participate in multidisciplinary meetings.
To support and continue to develop clinical collaboration with other paediatric services in Oxford and Buckinghamshire, especially where this may impact on paediatric orthopaedic provision.
To develop further paediatric training in orthopaedics with support of Locally and Nationally appointed trainees and provide orthopaedic teaching for other undergraduate and postgraduate trainees.
Working for our organisation
NOTSSCaN SERVICES, OXFORD
The NOTSSCaN Division is responsible for the day-to-day management and delivery of services within their areas in line with Trust strategies, policies and procedures and contains several Clinical Directorates, each of which contain clinical service units covering specific areas of services.
The Directorates are led by Clinical Directors and supported by Operational Service Managers, Matrons and other relevant experts. The Directorates host services on three hospital sites: The John Radcliffe Hospital, The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Horton General Hospital, Banbury.
The NOTSSCaN Division whilst mirroring the overall vision of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust aims to be a leader across the United Kingdom as a provider of a range of standard and specialised services. The Division ensures its services are responsive and patient-centred, with dynamic care pathways based on the best available evidence. The Division wants to be the hospital of choice in the UK for patients, GPs and commissioners, supported by a pre-eminent academic centre with an international reputation for advances in medical care, biomedical research and clinical training, while achieving financial sustainability and long-term growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Outline Job Plan Weekly Provision Provisional Programmed Activities
An indicative timetable and job plan is outlined below. The final job plan for the post will be agreed with the Clinical Director upon appointment and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually.
Day
Time
Location
Work
Categorisation
No of PAs/day
Monday
08:00- 18:00
OUH
1:4 Operating list + pre-op & post-op. ward round
DCC
0.62
Tuesday
08:00-09:00
OUH
1 in 4 post op WR
DCC
0.06
09:00-12:00
NOC
1 in 4 Clinic
DCC
0.18
0830-0930
NOC
Case review & planning
DCC
0.25
09:30-11:00
NOC
POAC Clinic
DCC
0.37
11:00-17:00
NOC
Clinic
DCC
1.5
Thursday
1.5 hrs
Travel
Travel to from BHT
DCC
0.37
09:00-1400
BHT
Clinic & admin BHT
DCC
1.25
Friday
1.5 h
Travel
2 in 4 weeks Travel to from BHT
DCC
0.19
08:00-18:00
2 :4 OUH
1:4 Horton
Operating list -pre-op & post-op. ward round
DCC
2.4
Saturday
09:00-10:30
JR
1 in4 on call w round
DCC
0.13
Sunday
08:00-09:00
JR
1 in4 on call w round
DCC
0.08
Additional agreed activity to be worked flexibly
4 h
Office or home
Admin and pre-op planning
DCC
1.0
Additional agreed activity to be worked flexibly
6 h
Office or home
I.0 Core SPA +
0.5 SPA for defined activity to be agreed with CL and CD & reviewed
SPA
1.5
Predictable emergency on-call work
JR
On call duties
DCC
0.10
Person specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC with licence to practice
* MBChB or equivalent
* FRCS (T&O) or equivalent
* Trained to level 3 safeguarding
* Higher medical degree
* CCT or equivalent in orthopaedic surgery
Experience
* Comprehensive training in Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery and fellowship experience as a paediatric orthopaedic fellow in a major unit
* Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
* Experience as a paediatric orthopaedic consultant
Skills
* Good leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
* Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management
* Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
* Good written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
* Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
* Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
* Participation in clinical research
* GCP training or equivalent
* Ability to travel between hospitals
* Experience of developing new services and leading the provision of these
* Presentations at national and international meetings. Peer reviewed publications
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.
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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.
Name Andrew Wainwright
Job title Clinical Lead Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery OUH
Email address Andrew.Wainwright@ouh.nhs.uk
Telephone number 01865 238026
Additional information
Potential candidates are invited to speak with Mr Alex Lee, Clinical Director of the Children’s Directorate, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Alex.Lee@ouh.nhs.uk), Mr Andrew Wainwright, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery Oxford University Hospitals (Andrew.Wainwright@ouh.nhs.uk), and the other consultants in the team.
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