A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post is a unique and exciting opportunity and is aimed at prospective candidates who have completed the Foundation programme and/or those who are preparing to apply for specialist training programmes.
The aim is to provide a broad-based orthopaedic training at a level higher than Foundation with special focus on areas of interest that the appointee would wish to develop in their focus on areas of interest that the appointee would wish to develop in their professional skills and profile to prepare themselves for and competitive to apply for speciality programmes.
**Please note this vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received**
The post will be based predominantly at the Aintree University site, our trauma site and Broadgreen Hospital our state of the art elective centre. You will be responsible for routine and emergency admissions of orthopaedic patients participating in a partial shift rota for orthopaedics. Day to day work will be varied including ward work, trauma and major trauma on call, outpatient clinics and theatre sessions.
We encourage trainees to operate under supportive supervision to develop their surgical skills. A number of the consultants are deeply involved in educational roles all the way from undergraduate level to registrar level and pride themselves on training the next generation of surgeons.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & 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. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
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 inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
The post will be based predominantly at the Aintree University site, our trauma site and Broadgreen Hospital our state of the art elective centre.
You will be responsible for routine and emergency admissions of orthopaedic patients participating in a partial shift rota for orthopaedics.
Day to day work will be varied including ward work, trauma and major trauma on call, outpatient clinics and theatre sessions.
We encourage trainees to operate under supportive supervision to develop their surgical skills.
A number of the consultants are deeply involved in educational roles all the way from undergraduate level to registrar level and pride themselves on training the next generation of surgeons.
This advert closes on Monday 3 Feb 2025