Main area orthogeriatrics Grade YC72 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 4 sessions per week (Days to be confirmed with successful applicant) Job ref 392-MS045-ConsultML&SG
Employer Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site RNOH Town Stanmore Salary £109,725 - £145,478 pro-rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/01/2026 23:59
Consultant Medical Liaison with Safeguarding
YC72
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
* Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
* Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
* Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
* In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
* Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
* Patients first, always
* Excellence, in all we do
* Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
* Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
As a medical liaison consultant you will play a key part in supporting the flow of inpatients at RNOH, working with multiple specialist services at RNOH to ensure that patients are safely discharged with appropriate onward care in place. We are looking for a part-time consultant to grow our team and develop this essential service. of the 4PA, 2PA will be dedicated to Medical Liaison and the other 2PA to managing Safeguarding across the Trust.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop specialist interests depending on their professional needs and have time working in a teaching capacity with specialist registrars across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role is to provide a number of services for adults (18+) at RNOH including: ward referrals, support of non-consultant hospital staff, daily HDU liaison including reviewing step-down patients, weekly ortho-oncology meeting (with UCLH), daily MDT board rounds for orthopaedic in-patients, weekly MDT complex case meeting (including psychiatry, anaesthetics and full MDT), weekly anaesthetic complex-case meeting, weekly long-stayers complex discharge meeting, safeguarding adults, and falls as well as educational supervision to NCHDs.
Additionally, this role will lead and guide the Trust on Safeguarding matters, working with the Safeguarding team.
Working for our organisation
At the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), we are committed to achieving the best staff experience in the NHS. In the 2023 NHS Staff Survey, we proudly:
* Scored above the national average for the People Promises: "We are recognised and rewarded," "We are always learning," "We work flexibly," "We are a team," and for staff engagement.
* Ranked #1 among all Trusts in North and Central London for all People Promises and themes.
* Ranked #1 among all Acute Specialist Trusts for "We work flexibly."
At RNOH, we’re committed to being actively anti-discriminatory and actively inclusive. We recognise our brilliant people do brilliant work, and we offer rewarding careers, no matter what their background. We continue to strive to break down barriers to be the Trust where people come together because what they do matters, makes a difference and where they can thrive.
Joining our organisation means enjoying a wide range of staff benefits, including:
* 24/7 access to wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
* A Rewards & Recognition platform, offering opportunities to thank colleagues, send gifts, and access exclusive discounts.
* A dedicated Staff Wellbeing Hub, providing a space to relax and recharge away from the work environment.
* Salary sacrifice schemes for transport (season ticket loans, car and bike), electrical goods, and childcare
At RNOH, we are more than a workplace—we are committed to patients, to excellence and the wellbeing of our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a 4 PA role responsible for medical liaison and safeguarding. 2PA will be DCC with involvement in ward huddles, HDU reviews and board rounds as well as reviews of any patients requiring Medical review. SPA is included for CPD, teaching, audit and quality work and service development.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MRCP or GMC recognised equivalent qualification
* CCT in Geriatrics or Internal medicine or equivalent training
* On Specialist Register or within 6 months of award of CCT or equivalent by date of interview
* Registered with the GMC including specialist registration for Medicine and progressing as expected in the revalidation cycle
* ALS
Experience
* Interest and experience in aspects of peri-operative medicine such as pre-assessment clinic.
* Ortho-geriatric experience
Skills & Knowledge
* Proven leadership and organisational skills
* Effectively work within a team environment
* Commitment to CME and Revalidation
* Experience in clinical research and teaching
* Good understanding the NHS management structure
* Evidence of management training
Research,. Teaching and Training
* Evidence of interest in teaching and training
* Evidence of relevant publications in peer reviewed journals
* Teaching course
* Evidence of ability to undertake assessments of trainees
* Demonstrate an interest in teaching and training
Safeguarding
* Hold current, appropriate registration with GMC and hold consultant status with a minimum of two years’ experience as a consultant physician.
* Have completed Level 3 Safeguarding Children and Adult Training programme within last 2 years (or willing to complete before commencing role)
* Have a keen interest and relevant experience in adult safeguarding
* Have an awareness of, and/or experience in mental health and learning disability and the safeguarding risk/priorities for these
* Exhibit and use in their day-to-day work knowledge of adult safeguarding matters.
* Maintain up to date practice in relation to adult safeguarding.
* Have an understanding of local arrangements for adult safeguarding.
* Experience of teaching and training at an undergraduate/postgraduate level
We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and offer a range of flexible working practices. Part-time and job share applications will be considered.
You must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom or meet the criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship, and these will be considered alongside all other applications. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role meet the eligibility requirements under the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points-based system to avoid disappointment. You can view thishere.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to RNOH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.
Additionally, by applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
The RNOH operates a Smoke-Free Policy. Smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s premises (including the grounds that those premises are sited on) or in any Trust owned vehicle.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
RNOH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of RNOH will have their original documents verified using this technology.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Oliver Shoffren Job title Operations Manager Email address olivershoffren@nhs.net Telephone number 0208 909 5124
Additional information
please arrange contact with Oliver or Unit Clinical Director Dr Ashu Handa via Unit leadership PA, Rasi Vagadiya rasi.vagadiya@nhs.net
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