This is a 12-month locum consultant post in the paediatric orthopaedics service at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with a possible move to a substantive role later. The post-holder would deliver elective and secondary-tertiary paediatric orthopaedic care for children across Oxfordshire, Thames Valley and neighbouring counties, within a multidisciplinary team. Duties include teaching trainees, building links with other paediatric services and meeting national GIRFT and RCPCH standards. Applicants need full GMC registration and a CCT or equivalent in orthopaedic surgery, plus paediatric orthopaedic fellowship experience.
What the job involves
- Provide high-quality secondary and tertiary paediatric orthopaedic care to children and adolescents across Oxfordshire, Thames Valley and neighbouring counties
- Support the multidisciplinary team and take part in its meetings
- Support and develop clinical collaboration with other paediatric services in Oxford and Buckinghamshire, especially where it affects paediatric orthopaedic provision
- Help develop the service to support colleagues in regional hospitals across Thames Valley
- Develop paediatric orthopaedic training with locally and nationally appointed trainees
- Provide orthopaedic teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate trainees
- Comply with RCPCH and national GIRFT recommendations for paediatric orthopaedics and RCS standards for acute and specialty services for children
What’s required
Qualifications
- MB ChB or equivalent
- FRCS (T&O) or equivalent
- CCT or equivalent in orthopaedic surgery
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration with licence to practise
Experience
- Comprehensive training in paediatric orthopaedic surgery and fellowship experience (or equivalent) as a paediatric orthopaedic fellow in a major unit
- Formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
Skills & knowledge
- Good leadership skills, with evidence of leading a clinical team at consultant level in a teaching hospital
- Effective administrative and time management skills, with training in clinical management
- Evidence of consultant-level decision-making and managing complex clinical problems
- Good written English, highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, and a good team player
- Evidence of sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit
- Participation in clinical research GCP training or equivalent
Checks & eligibility
- Level 3 children's safeguarding training
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
