Overview
This is a Locum post for a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with an interest in Trauma and Hip Surgery (including hip arthroplasty, arthroscopy and periprosthetic fracture management) at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will support the current delivery of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Service, including contribution to the development of these services at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. The appointee will join the existing team to provide specialist care to this growing population of patients, and raise departmental profiles through teaching and education. The Trauma and Orthopaedics Department at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive Trauma and Orthopaedic Service in all aspects of emergency and elective surgery both for adults and children. We offer a wide variety of routine and complex orthopaedic procedures for fractures and musculoskeletal problems across the following subspecialties. We form part of the Thames Valley Trauma Network and work in partnership with neighbouring Trusts across the Thames Valley to provide the best possible standard of care to our patients. Patients that require sarcoma and major/poly trauma care may be treated at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre or the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, which is the regional specialist-commissioned Orthopaedic and Major Trauma provider.
Qualifications
The successful applicant must therefore have the pre‑requisite procedural and leadership skills as well as teamwork, drive and ambition to succeed in achieving these goals.
Main duties of the job
* Share the large clinical load referred from a range of sources, with a general trauma commitment sharing weekday and weekend on‑calls with the existing teams.
* Independently manage and operate on own caseload of patients, holding specialist knowledge and skill in hip and knee arthroplasty and arthroscopy, and run lists independently without senior oversight.
* Participate in all further training and educational opportunities for junior medical/nursing staff, general practice vocational trainees, general practitioners and medical students.
* Attend the trauma meeting every morning starting at 07:45hrs; a monthly clinical governance meeting; weekly post‑graduate teaching sessions and designated CT and FY training sessions; and maintain close training links with Oxford and St Mary’s in London.
* Participate actively and enthusiastically in the clinical governance, teaching and management activities of the department.
* Record all absence from the Trust using Department and Trust processes; provide this record at annual job plan review; and provide cross‑cover for colleagues’ leave when necessary.
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