Barking Havering and Redbridge University Trust is seeking to appoint a fixed term Locum Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics. The post holder would be expected to complement the current workforce in working with the Trauma and Orthopaedic team. This opportunity is within the busy, dynamic multidisciplinary teams at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University NHS Trust (BHRUT). This consultant post will be job planned to perform 10 programmed activities (PA) with the aim to help us improve the trauma and orthopaedics service that we provide to our population. This is initially a one-year fixed term post with the plan to advertise this post substantively thereafter.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be managing patient care in outpatient clinics, fracture clinics, virtual fracture clinics, triaging and assisting in elective and trauma theatres. There will also be opportunities to teach and support more junior staff in the department across our sites. The successful candidate will have a broad experience in the management of Orthopaedic inpatients, Orthopaedic outpatients, and Trauma patients and will have to engage in all aspects of orthopaedic patient pathways. The appointee will be involved in developing the existing orthopaedic hip & knee services further and will provide full consultant in-patient, outpatient and pre-assessment care for lower limb patients as well as trauma patients.
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with colleagues and managers with the aim of developing pathways ensuring smooth and efficient pathways for our patients. A regular programme of service and educational meetings underpins the service. There is a regular commitment to audit and teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The scale of the hospital permits an excellent degree of effective working relationships between hospital departments and Primary care.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Experience
Essential
* Full GMC Registration or post CCT within 6 months
* Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and Excellent decision making at consultant level
* General Training in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery to Consultant level or equivalent
Desirable
* Higher degree
* National, International Fellowship training
* Experience in managing emergency trauma surgical skills
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