A 12-month fixed-term locum consultant post in the Hand & Wrist service, within the Musculoskeletal & Specialist Surgery group at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. The work centres on consultant-led elective hand and wrist care, with clinics, operating lists and day cases, plus trauma and fracture clinic support as needed. No consultant on-call rota is attached, and most work sits at Leicester General with trauma at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Applicants need FRCS (Tr&Orth) and a CCT/CESR, or be within six months of one at interview.
What the job involves
- Deliver consultant-level elective hand and wrist care, managing inpatients and outpatients under own care
- Run consultant-led outpatient clinics, elective operating lists, and inpatient and day-case activity
- Support elective recovery and reduce waiting list pressures and waiting times
- Provide hand and wrist trauma support, including fracture clinics and trauma operating lists, as service requires
- Work with the Hand & Wrist multidisciplinary team on clinical decisions and service development
- Supervise, train and teach junior doctors, allied health professionals and medical students
- Work with Trauma & Orthopaedic and other specialties as required
- Take part in clinical governance, including audit, quality improvement, appraisal and mandatory training
- Work at Leicester General Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary, and other UHL or associated sites as needed
What’s required
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent
- FRCS (Tr&Orth) or equivalent
- CCT/CESR in Trauma & Orthopaedics, or within 6 months of interview
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration
Experience
- Significant experience in hand and wrist surgery, covering elective and trauma conditions
- Considerable general trauma and orthopaedic surgery experience, including working within the NHS
- Elective hip management including primary arthroplasty, and complex hip reconstruction and revision
- General orthopaedic trauma and hip trauma management, including neck of femur, peri-prosthetic and complex acetabular or pelvic trauma
- Multidisciplinary working, and service development, clinical governance, audit and QI within a trauma and orthopaedic service
Skills & knowledge
- Teaching and training of undergraduate and postgraduate learners, with appraisal and clinical competency assessment skills
- Ability to appraise research critically, with recent research and development activity
- Leadership of teams and supervision of juniors, with the ability to motivate and develop medical and non-medical staff
- Ability to organise, prioritise and manage clinical workload
- Understanding of the wider health agenda and the modern NHS
- Good communicator and team player, reliable, flexible and able to work under pressure
Other
- Personal integrity, and commitment to Trust values and behaviours, dignity, respect and inclusion
Nice to have
- Fellowship-level training in hand and wrist surgery
- Fellowship training in hip arthroplasty and revision surgery
- Higher degree such as MSc, MD or equivalent
- Postgraduate qualification in teaching and training
- Peer-reviewed publications relevant to the specialty
- Formal audit and quality improvement courses, or published audit and QI
- Management training on an accredited course, or management and administration experience
- Experience of complex revision hip cases and peri-prosthetic joint infection
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
