🚀 Orthopaedic Trauma Consultant with a Specialty in Shoulder and Elbow

Job Summary

Consultant post in Trauma Orthopaedic Surgery with a specialist interest in Shoulder and Elbow. Full‑time at John Radcliffe Hospital. Candidates can visit the department and contact Simon Hurst, Clinical Lead, or Sarah Lancaster, Deputy Clinical Director for Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery.

Main Duties

The post holder will primarily work at John Radcliffe Hospital but may include activities at Horton General Hospital. The appointment requires willingness to work at any location within the Trust.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals – John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and focus on compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.

Job description

Oxford Trauma Service provides high‑quality, consultant‑led care for the local population of Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley Major Trauma Network. The new appointee will form part of a team, managing patients with major trauma injuries and providing surgical treatment of musculoskeletal injuries. The post is suitable for a fully trained orthopaedic trauma surgeon with fellowship‑level training at a recognised major or level 1 trauma centre.

Person Specification

• GMC registration (required).

Qualifications / Training

• FRCS (Tr+Orth) or equivalent overseas qualification.
• CCST in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery and OR registration on the GMC Specialist Register in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery.

Desirable qualifications

• Higher‑level degree (MD, PhD).
• ATLS Provider (Current).
• Definitive Surgical Skills Course or Damage control Orthopaedics Course.

Experience

• General training in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery.
• 6 months fellowship‑level training in orthopaedic trauma surgery.
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.

Desirable experience

• Experience of consultant responsibilities in a major trauma unit.
• 6 months fellowship‑level training in subspecialist orthopaedic surgery.

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
• Effective administrative and time‑management skills. Training in clinical management.
• Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government's agenda.
• Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork.
• Computing skills, ability to use word processor, spreadsheet programme and web browser.
• Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills to undertake effectively the role of consultant in a large teaching hospital.
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training of undergraduates and trainees.
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities.
• Evidence of audit / quality improvement activity in orthopaedic trauma surgery / fragility fracture surgery / major trauma management.
• Evidence of participation in recruitment for clinical randomised controlled trials.

Desirable skills and knowledge

• Evidence of leadership outside the NHS.
• Management qualification.
• Evidence of successful business case development.
• Evidence of recent 360 degree appraisal.
• Evidence of teacher training.
• Evidence of recent audit activity.
• Peer reviewed publications published in orthopaedic research.

Other requirement

• Transport.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check to confirm no previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require skilled worker sponsorship are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for at least 12 months in the past 10 years.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

John Radcliffe Hospital

Headley way

Oxford

OX3 9DU

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