Employer The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Princess Royal Hospital Town Telford Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/07/2025 23:59
Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics (Upper Limb & Shoulder Surgery)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is looking for a full-time consultant in Trauma & orthopaedics who will be predominantly based at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), Telford with responsibilities at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), Shrewsbury.
The appointee will join an existing team of full time Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons based at PRH and provide a specialty surgical service for patients with Hand, Elbow & Shoulder problems. The appointee will also participate in a 1:8 on call emergency rota for patients with Musculo-skeletal trauma. The needs of the service may necessitate a change to a 1:10 on call rota in the future.
Main duties of the job
· To provide a specialty surgical service for adult patients with upper limb disorders requiring surgery.
· To participate in a 1:8 on call emergency rota for adults and paediatric patients with musculo-skeletal trauma which include weekends. The Trust has specialist spinal and paediatric links with Oswestry and Stoke.
· To be involved in teaching of medical staff and medical students from Keele University.
· To develop enhanced clinical skills, especially in the assessment and management of acutely ill patients.
· To have excellent team-working skills with the abilities and professional attitude to work well in a multi-professional team.
· To deliver clinical and quality targets agreed both nationally and locally with clinical teams and commissioners.
· To follow patients throughout their clinical pathways.
Working for our organisation
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.
Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust’s catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) – all beautiful and unique.
Our main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes’ drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.
We also provide services such as consultant-led outreach clinics at the Wrekin Community Clinic, Telford, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen and the Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch Community Hospitals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A formal job plan will be agreed between the successful candidate and their Clinical Director, on behalf of the Medical Director within 3 months of starting in post. A full-time job plan is based on a 10 PA working week. The job plan will be reviewed annually and is a prospective agreement that sets out the consultant's duties, responsibilities, and objectives for the coming year. It covers all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external and will include personal objectives, detailing links to wider service improvements and trust strategic priorities.
For a full-time contract, the job plan will be divided on average per week (pro-rata for a part time post) as:
· 7.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) of Direct Clinical Care - includes clinical activity, clinically related activity, patient related admin and predictable and unpredictable emergency work.
· 2.5 PA of Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) - includes CPD, audit, teaching and research.
The allocation of PAs is reviewed and may be subject to adjustment when a further diary exercise is undertaken or if the service demands a review of the team job plan.
Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust in consultation with other consultant colleagues.
In line with HTP and the trusts long terms plans trauma service will be reconfigured to one site, job plans will be subject to change when trauma is reconfigured to the RSH site, this will all be done with consultation and consideration of the individual consultants.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MBBS, MBChB or equivalent medical qualification
* Post-graduate thesis
Entry Criteria
* Full Registration and a licence to practise with the General Medical Council (GMC)
* To be eligible for consideration for a consultant appointment by an Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC), candidates must be fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register for Trauma & Orthopaedics. We welcome applications from candidates who are within six months of achieving Specialist Registration through either the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR)
* Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems, both emergency and elective, within specialty, and in particular with musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb and shoulder
* Subspecialty expertise in upper limb and shoulder surgery
* Ability to teach clinical skills, teach and lecture on speciality
* Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
* Willingness to actively participate in postgraduate training on a regular basis and to support in particular SpR core training.
* Experience in clinical undergraduate/postgraduate teaching
* Experience in NHS management
* Ability to supervise post-graduate research
* Publications in referred journals
By submitting your application to Trac, you are giving your consent for parts of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure, internal NHS Workforce systems. This is to support and manage your recruitment and employment within your employing organisation.
If successful, by completing your application form you authorise the Trust to obtain any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national ESR.
If the role requires a qualification/professional registration, you will need to provide proof during the recruitment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider.
If you require the application form in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team on 01743 492402.
In the event of a high response to this advertisement, this post will be closed. Early applications are advised.
Unfortunately we do not accept CVs or keep them on file. If you are unable to apply online please contact the person named in the advertisement for the post you are interested in.
We commit to removing barriers for people with disabilities or long-term health conditions in recruitment, training, and career progression. We will offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the above position and will support reasonable adjustments wherever possible. In addition, whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are male, from black and minority ethnic backgrounds or who have a disability, as these are currently under-represented in our workforce.
We are committed to offering an interview to applicants from the Armed Forces community who meet the minimum criteria for the position. In addition, for those who are successfully appointed from the Armed Forces community, the Trust are committed to recognising previous service and rank in terms of pay, annual leave and other terms and conditions.
We are committed to equal opportunities in employment. The policies and practices of the Trust aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly, flexibly and with dignity and respect.
We are committed to making the Trust a great place to work, where all staff can reach their full potential and bring their whole self to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from an Ethnic minority background are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace, that attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Many of our colleagues work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise a fair and equitable process that balances your needs, the needs of our patients and service delivery.
Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.
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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.
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