A Vacancy at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust wishes to appoint a locum orthopaedic consultant to accommodate demand in the subspecialty Soft Tissue and Young Adult knee surgery. The appointee will join the present consultants, providing elective and trauma services.
The Department provides services to the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and acts as a tertiary referral center for complex cases such as foot and ankle, spine, paediatrics, non-unions and pelvic injuries.
Hull is a Major Trauma Centre within the Yorkshire Trauma Network.
The Department seeks to attract consultants with a specialist interest in soft tissue knee surgery
This is a full time post with a basic job plan of 10Pas with the option to increase to 12PAs
This post is an addition to the present 3 Orthopaedic Consultants in the unit who provide arthroplasty and revision knee surgery.
The successful candidate would join the general on call rota and contribute to the weekday office hours trauma clinics and trauma theatre
It is anticipated that the successful candidate would be comfortable to manage acute and chronic soft tissue knee conditions such as multi-ligament injuries, meniscal tears, isolated ligament injuries and patellofemoral instability. An interest in paediatric soft tissue knee problems is a desirable attribute
Some of these cases are tertiary referrals from neighboring NHS trust hospitals.
The successful candidate would joint three surgeons who currently undertake soft tissue knee surgery
It is anticipated that a large proportion of the elective work would take place in the day surgery unit and that the successful applicant would contribute to the trauma service and take on some of the complex knee trauma both fractures and soft tissue injuries.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
For further details regarding this vacancy, please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Feb 2025