Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery

The elective centre at Charing Cross has been designated a regional Major Revision Centre and handles all the elective practice of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The fellowship will provide solid grounding in primary hip arthroplasty as well as exposure to complex revision surgery and post‑traumatic reconstruction including peri‑prosthetic fracture management, multi‑stage revision and endo‑prosthetic replacement.

The Major Trauma Centre at St Mary’s provides a huge opportunity to gain experience in the management of and surgery related to high volume major trauma and polytrauma. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience in managing pelvic trauma in conjunction with the Pelvic & Acetabular Fellow based at the St Mary’s site. S/he will also be responsible for managing the six‑weekly Elective Mass Hip clinic.

The post is across‑site (SMH/CXH/HH) but the on‑call commitment is off‑site for Charing Cross Hospital with the other senior fellows (plus senior cover for St Mary’s if an ST3 is on call or in cases where emergency cover is required). Approximately every 5 months you will also have an SpR of the week on‑call commitment at St Mary’s. The job banding is 1B with London allowance.

Main duties of the job include dividing time between clinical work, inpatient and outpatients (75%) and research/interventional nephrology (25%). There will be a degree of flexibility to accommodate the successful candidate’s preferences and interest. The appointed fellow will alternate between 9 weeks of clinical work and 3 weeks of research/intervention/management time according to the fellow's needs. The fellow will divide time between outpatient clinics, inpatient cover and both independent and supervised theatre sessions. This will include a number of hip arthroplasty elective lists as well as pelvic and acetabular trauma lists.

Working for our organisation at Imperial College Healthcare allows you to achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities include being based predominantly at Charing Cross Hospital and working with all the hip arthroplasty surgeons rather than being attached to one surgeon. The successful candidates will join a young and vibrant department, with additional opportunities to conduct research, take part in leadership and audit programmes and help organise middle grade work. Many of our previous candidates have progressed on to consultant posts.

Person specification

• Qualifications: GMC registration with license to practice by commencement of the post, FRS (or equivalent).
• Language: Candidates are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements.
• Relevant Experience in Specialty/Sub Specialty: Experience or aptitude for clinical activity appropriate to job description.
• Academic Achievements including Research/Publications: Prior involvement in research at any level.
• Audit: Understanding of principles of clinical audit, prior involvement in or completion of audit projects.
• Clinical Skills: Appropriate to job description.
• Teaching & Training: Exposure to teaching medical students and junior colleagues.

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