Job Overview
This post is offered on the new consultant contract terms and conditions of service on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will join our existing team of 23 consultants. This is a full‑time permanent position with ten programmed activities. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly across all sites within UHD and be part of the general orthopaedic on call rota with a commitment of 1:12.
A specialist interest to complement existing expertise within the department is sought, especially foot & ankle. Ideally, we will be looking for a surgeon to support the diabetic foot service as a part of their elective practice.
Informal enquiries are welcome.
For further information or to arrange a visit please contact: Nikki Kelsall, Clinical Director for Trauma and Orthopaedics via email [email protected] or Mike Kent, Deputy Clinical Director for Trauma and Orthopaedics via email [email protected].
Main Duties of the Job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics (with a specialist interest in foot and ankle) to join the Trauma and Orthopaedics Directorate at University Hospitals Dorset (UHD). This post is a substantive trauma and orthopaedic consultant post.
Trauma and Orthopaedics at UHD is a large and well‑established service with cross‑site working. Currently, trauma and paediatric surgery are undertaken on the Poole site, which is the largest fragility fracture centre in Europe with over 1200 patients attending per year requiring surgery and a trauma bed base of over 100 beds. Elective orthopaedics is currently undertaken at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital with a dedicated ring‑fenced orthopaedic facility.
As a major part of the formation of UHD in 2020, an extensive clinical service review and reconfiguration is underway. Royal Bournemouth Hospital will become the acute site and Poole Hospital will become the planned care site, with a planned launch in early 2026. As such UHD will be the largest single site Elective Surgical Hub in the UK.
Key to the success and future of the Trauma and Orthopaedics Directorate are the close working relationships with the Dorset Integrated Care System, the UHD Strategy and Transformation Directorate and the Institute of Orthopaedic Research at Bournemouth University.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The post holder will form part of the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, working at University Hospitals Dorset in the Trauma and Orthopaedic department. A specialist interest to complement existing expertise within the department is sought, especially foot & ankle. Ideally we will be looking for a surgeon to support the diabetic foot service as a part of their elective practice.
These posts will be paid on the Consultant Grade, at 10 basic PAs plus 3% additional salary uplift for on‑call availability.
* Undertake regular trauma theatre lists.
* Undertake regular virtual and outpatient fracture clinics.
* Support and supervise junior doctors and middle grade staff.
* Be ultimately responsible for patients admitted under his or her take/firm, in the trauma service.
* Participate in the trauma consultant on‑call rota (24/7 service, 1 in 12)
* Undertake consultant level ward rounds and patient review.
* Have a specialist interest in fragility fractures reflecting our local population.
* Have a specialist interest in Foot & ankle.
* Be involved in new ways of working in our future facilities.
DUTIES OF THE POST AND JOB PLAN REVIEW
The successful candidate will provide a mixture of operating and outpatient clinic activity in trauma. Additionally, the successful applicant will join the 24/7 Consultant on‑call rota; initially the trauma service will be at Poole General Hospital. The post holder may be involved in the department’s training and research programmes and will be expected to supervise a number of locally employed doctors.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC registration
* On the GMC Specialist Register for Orthopaedics and have their CCT/CCST or will receive it within six months of the date of interview.
Additional Postgraduate Qualifications
* Success in inter‑collegiate specialty examination or overseas equivalent.
* MD or PhD (Score 1 in progress - 3 submitted - 5 awarded).
Essential Criteria
Clinical training and experience
* Particular expertise and experience in Foot & ankle surgery, diabetic foot services and trauma work.
* Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion on a range of problems in both emergency and elective aspects of Orthopaedic Surgery.
* Ability to take full independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
* To have undertaken a fellowship and/or specialist year 5/6 training in lower limb arthroplasty surgery.
Essential Criteria
Management and administration training and experience
* Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialty service.
* Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists.
* Ability to manage and lead an Orthopaedic Surgical Firm.
* Ability to manage and lead a sub‑specialist team in Orthopaedic or Trauma Directorate when appropriate.
Teaching Experience
* Ability to teach and communicate clinical and operative skills.
* To supervise Junior and Middle Grade staff postgraduate learning programmes.
* Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates.
* Ability to supervise postgraduate research.
Research and audit experience
* Evidence of Audit Management.
* First name publications in refereed journals.
* Evidence of audits completed.
* Research in progress.
* Evidence of the ability to apply research outcomes to clinical/surgical problems.
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