Locum Consultant with a specialist interest in General Trauma
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The person appointed will be based across all three sites and will be a member of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Directorate, joining the existing consultants and multidisciplinary team in providing excellent major trauma, trauma and elective orthopaedics. Applicants are required to hold Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons or equivalent qualifications, to be fully registered with the General Medical Council with a licence to practise and listed on the Specialist Register or to be registered within six months of the date of appointment. The successful candidate will have a special interest that will complement the department and aid the recovery plan electively as well as trauma care. Participation in major trauma and general trauma is mandated. Please see the attached job plan for details. The appointee would be responsible for the clinical care of patients; undertaking ward rounds (consultant of the week model), operating sessions and outpatient clinics. It is anticipated that the appointee will work closely in partnership with existing surgeons. He/she will also be expected to visit other surgical centres of excellence with a view to enhancing his/her level of training and skills. The post‑operative care of the patients will be covered by on‑call consultant colleagues during out of hours and/or the weekend.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award‑winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single‑site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatient care with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Janet Pennell Job title: Medical Staffing Email address: Jan.pennell@liverpoolft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 529 2541
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