Locum Orthopaedic Consultant - interest in Trauma/Upper limb Surgery

Job overview

This is a replacement locum Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and developing care for orthopaedic trauma patients, and to provide and develop trauma surgery services at King’s especially within upper limb. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

Main duties of the job

The post will be primarily based at King’s College Hospital (Denmark Hill site) with a commitment to providing surgical services at any other Trust site. The evolution of regional integrated care systems may also require the post holder to work flexibly within the region in the future. The proposed Job Plan is attached. There will be an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities of Direct Clinical Care, with the remainder being allocated for Supporting Professional and/or other Activities. The On-Call commitment is for a 1:12 rota which is classed as Category A.

As a senior employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:-

· The provision of a first class clinical service

· Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

· Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London

· Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

· Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

· Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Working for our organisation

The Trauma & Orthopaedics department is one of the largest Orthopaedic departments in the region serving a population in excess of 700,000 and covers both Denmark Hill and the Princess Royal University Hospital. The department currently has 24 orthopaedic surgeons and in addition to providing elective and trauma services to its local population, the division offers a range of tertiary services.

King’s College Hospital is a Major Trauma Centre and is responsible for the South East London, Kent and Medway (SELKAM) Trauma Network. As a Major Trauma Centre King’s is a specialist hospital that is able to care for the most severely injured patients, with consultants available 24-hours a day, 7-days a week with the necessary resources and skills to treat complex and sometimes multiple injuries.

Elective inpatient and some day case work is carried out at Orpington Hospital at the Elective Orthopaedic Centre, almost all aspects of elective Orthopaedics are catered for here. The hospital site has four orthopaedic ultra clean theatres, along with a recovery area and one elective orthopaedic ward.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To provide support and delivery of orthopaedic trauma care for adult and paediatric patients in keeping with the requirements of the Major Trauma service.

2. To provide and support delivery of elective orthopaedic upper limb services in line with the department’s status as a tertiary referral centre. This may also include a commitment to providing some elective paediatric orthopaedic services.

3. To work alongside the existing orthoplastics team to provide comprehensive integrated care for patients with combined complex orthopaedic and soft tissue injuries.

4. To be an integral part of the wider trauma team including general, vascular, neuro and cardiothoracic surgical teams.

5. To organise, guide and promote the dialogue and cooperate with any other subspeciality surgeon in the process of decision making and emergency surgery.

6. To be responsible for the day to day management of elective and trauma and limb reconstruction patients on the wards.

7. To contribute to King’s subspecialty training. The consultant will be expected to supervise, govern, cooperate with, instruct, teach doctors at SCF, SpR, JCF, SHO, F1/F2 level in their clinical work and audit activity of the unit. The Department is proactively involved with student teaching and regular student teaching is mandatory for the postholder.

8. To contribute to the on call rota on a regular basis (weekdays 1:3 and 1:12 weekends (Friday to Sunday).

9. The post holder is expected to attend relevant MDT meetings.

10. Clinical supervision of junior medical staff as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.

11. Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to Continuing Medical Education and clinical governance initiatives.

12. Responsible for out-patient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed by the Liver, Renal & Surgery Divisional management team.

13. To contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.

14. To contribute to the Audit Programme.

15. To take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Division’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with both internal and external agencies.

16. To conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for surgical services.

17. To exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.

18. To work in conjunction with clinical and professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for junior colleagues.

19. To undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Clinical Director.

20. To be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene. To undertake annual training/updates in infection prevention and control.

21. To be accountable for implementation of the Code of Practice within own department/area of responsibility.

22. To prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice and maintaining patient safety.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registerable medical qualification
• FRCS Orth or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD)

Registration

Essential criteria

• Full Registration with GMC
• Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment or on CESR Pathway

Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of all aspects of orthopaedic major trauma surgery including completion of a subspecialty Fellowship in orthopaedic trauma surgery
• Demonstrable experience of complex upper or lower limb surgery including skills required to treat complex peri-articular fractures in the major trauma setting
• Demonstrable experience of managing emergency paediatric orthopaedic conditions

Desirable criteria

• Experience as an Orthopaedic Consultant in a Major Trauma Centre

Administration

Essential criteria

• Experience in day to day organisation of surgical services in a busy Teaching Hospital

Desirable criteria

• Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams

Desirable criteria

• Management course and/or qualification
• Evidence of previous experience of administrative leadership in a “Senior Registrar” type role

Audit

Essential criteria

• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects

Desirable criteria

• Relevant research experience
• Publication of relevant review articles or case reports

Research and Publications

Essential criteria

• Publication of relevant review articles or case reports

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and higher exam preparation teaching

Desirable criteria

• Teaching skills course/qualification
• Formal post in teaching (minimum 3 months) such as an Anatomy Demonstrator post

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