Consultant - Trauma and Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon with a specialist interest in Foot and Ankle to join the Trauma and Orthopaedic team.


Please note the job description is pending Royal College approval


The post holder will be required to contribute to the current demand for elective foot and ankle surgery and increase provision for specialist foot and ankle trauma.

This will primarily be on the WM site but will be cross site as needed. The orthopaedic service has dedicated outpatient areas on both site

It is desirable that the post holder has a higher clinical degree (MD or PhD).


It is essential that the post holder is able to demonstrate commitment to service improvement as evidenced by audits and service improvement projects previously completed.

The post holder will have a long-term commitment to delivering trauma care for the department. The post holder will need to be able to contribute to the fracture neck of femur service.


The post holder will be required to build on existing, close relations with colleagues as part of a multidisciplinary team.

He/she will be expected to contribute to the 1:7 Trauma on call rota including weekends. He/She will also be required to participate in audit, research, management and service development

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUDto Care for nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's,

in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.


Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'.

We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.

We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

1.1 Provide consultant care in the elective and trauma service across a range of procedures.

1.2 To contribute to the generic orthopaedic fracture clinics

1.3 To participate in the decision making of trauma daily through the morning trauma meeting

1.4 Establish new patient pathways alongside colleagues working in the Trust and local commissioners to reduce the length of stay for hip pathways


1.5 The post holder will need to be able to contribute to the fracture neck of femur service to ensure we meet best practice guidelines 100% of the time.

1.6 Deliver consultant review of all non-elective admissions review within 12 hours of admission

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information
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