Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role including the persons specification. To undertake all necessary administration duties associated with the care of his/her patients. The post holder should work towards implementing Electronic Patient and paperless records, with prompt signing of clinical letters and results on Electronic Patient Record systems. To be responsible to the Clinical lead for Trauma & Orthopaedics for the effective and efficient use of resources under his/her control. To contribute to planning the development of Orthopaedics and Trauma Services which includes spinal surgery. To contribute to main Departmental meetings. To participate in all required annual updates and mandatory training To undergo annual appraisal and participate in the revalidation processes as stipulated by the General Medical Council To participate in and develop the MDT including utilising cross site expertise and involvement for example with Yeovil District Hospital. The job plan you are expected to follow a flexible programme which will involve inpatient elective theatre sessions, spinal trauma lists, elective spinal outpatient clinics and spinal emergency clinics. Most of the elective sessions will be fixed on a 2-week rolling programme, but a variable number of flexible sessions are built into the job plan on an annualised basis to cover colleagues' leave. The job plan will be reviewed annually and updated to recognise other duties and SPA activity taken on after appointment, following discussion with the Clinical Service Lead. Attendance to the weekly Friday morning multi-disciplinary team meeting is mandatory unless there are on call commitments. Each Spinal Surgeon is rostered to lead the meeting which encompasses a rolling subspecialty meeting comprising of radiology, microbiology, oncology, scoliosis / deformity and general. Cases that are discussed include patients listed for surgery, all post operative cases, complex cases requiring advice and planning. The meeting is also used to ensure that compliance with data entry into the British Spinal Registry is achieved.