Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon - Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Enherts-TR)

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Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area Trauma and Orthopaedics Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job ref 361-R2R-2140-A

Site Lister Hospitak Town Stevenage Salary £93,666 - £126,281 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Consultant Surgeon in Trauma & Orthopaedics who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Trauma and Orthopedic department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful applicant will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership, innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and they feel valued during their visits to the Trust.

Applicants should possess expertise in general orthopaedic trauma and all aspects of knee surgery. A specific interest in cartilage regeneration, periarticular osteotomy, multi-ligament knee reconstruction and patella-femoral joint surgery is desirable. The successful applicant would be expected to assist with the development of day case knee arthroplasty surgery and robotic surgery.

Main duties of the job

• Participation in the provision of general orthopaedic trauma care
• All aspects of Knee Surgery
• Work collaboratively with the existing Consultants to lead and develop the service
• Maintenance of high quality patient centred care
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and
• directorate clinical governance activity

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide & our over 6,000 staff. We ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation as our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - we can consider your application fairly and to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification Qualifications/Training

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
• FRCS Tr & Orth or qualification of an equivalent level
• Higher Trauma and Orthopedic (or equivalent) training
• Fellowship training in Knee Surgery
• Postgraduate degree (or equivalent) related to Orthopaedics (e.g., Masters/MD/MRes/PhD etc)
• Soft tissue knee and Periarticular Knee Osteotomy Fellowship
• Knee Arthroplasty / Robotic Knee Fellowship
• Broad range of experience in Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Proficient in management and treatment of complex peri-articular knee trauma
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Experience of Orthopedic Trauma in a UK Major Trauma Centre
• Demonstrable Orthopedic Trauma experience in a Locum Consultant or Consultant role
• Demonstrable Soft Tissue Knee/Knee Osteotomy experience in a Locum Consultant or Consultant role
• Experience of setting up a Robotic Knee Arthroplasty Service
• Experience in day case arthroplasty surgery
• Evidence of leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidencebased practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Demonstrable experience and active participation in research and development

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Ability to effectively teach clinical skills
• Ability to critically appraise published evidence

Knowledge

• Demonstrate understanding of basic principles of audit, evidence-based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Comprehensive knowledge and insight regarding all the domains within the GMC standards of Good Medical Practice

Other Requirements

• Demonstrates an interest and commitment to the specialty
• Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
• Role models our Trust values every day.
• Understands and can demonstrate the values of the NHS constitution.
• Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs.

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

When you apply...

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As a publicly funded employer, we need to ensure we utilise our funds responsibly, this may mean we are unable to support sponsorship required to gain the right to work for particular positions. We strongly advise you to contact the line manager or a member of the Resourcing Team before applying to confirm if we will be able to support with sponsorship for that post.

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Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.