Job overview
This is a replacement Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi– disciplinary team providing and developing care for orthopaedic patients, and to provide and develop sub-specialist elective surgery services at PRUH/Orpington. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
The post will be primarily based at Princess Royal University Hospital with a commitment to providing surgical services at any other Trust site. The evolution of regional integrated care systems may also require the post holder to work flexibly within the region in the future. The proposed Job Plan is attached.
Main duties of the job
All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities are the following:
1.The provision of a first-class clinical service
2.Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
3.Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP
4.Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies
5.Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans
6.Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £ per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.
Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.
We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over million patients every year.
We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.