Foot and Ankle Clinical Fellow - Wrightington, United Kingdom - Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Wrightington, United Kingdom

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Description

Foot and Ankle Fellowship until August 2024.

Supporting the running of the Foot & Ankle department both elective and trauma with 4 F&A consultants and 3 F&A middle grades.

Planning and Organisational Duties

Ward Cover, Clerking of new admissions, attendance at ward rounds.
Attendance at Orthopaedic outpatient clinics / fracture clinics with the Consultant.
Cover for colleagues in Orthopaedic Unit during periods of leave.
Writing discharge letters, liaising with GPs as necessary regarding discharges. Legibly completing outcome proformas in the outpatient clinics.
Collecting and presenting data for clinical audit meetings.
To facilitate medical and clinical audit, junior medical staff must keep medical records in the manner prescribed by the Musculo-Skeletal Division.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas.

At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values 'the WWL Way'.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity.

With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

Communications and Key Working Relationships

Responsibility for administration of the Directorate rest with the Clinical Director who deals with junior medical staff appointments, locums, annual leave, study leave and post graduate education. However, daytoday responsibilities for these are shared between the Consultants.
The Fellows are expected to work together as a team as part of the foot and ankle unit. Each will work with a Consultant or pair of Consultants. The Fellow will also be expected to cooperate with, and develop good working relationships with junior doctors in other departments. The Fellows will also be expected to maintain good working relationships with the departmental nursing staff, the staff in diagnostic departments and the physiotherapy departments.
In these 2 foot and ankle fellowship posts, the successful applicants will work with a combination of consultants in the foot and ankle unit, which includes Mr Clough, Mr Davenport, Mr Karski and Mr Smith. On the elective site at Wrightington the fellows will gain experience in elective foot and ankle pathology, including complex tertiary referalls. The surgical casemix includes forefoot and hindfoot surgery, including fusions, ankle replacements, ankle arthroscopy, and forefoot surgery. The fellows job plan may also include attending foot and ankle fracture clinics, and trauma lists on the Wigan site, including the management of diabetic foot pathology, and ankle trauma dependant on which consultant they are working with. The fellows will also be expected to participate in research and audit projects within the foot and ankle unit.

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