Consultant in Hand and Spasticity Surgery - Birmingham, United Kingdom - The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital is seeking to recruit a Consultant in Hand and Spasticity Surgeon to increase capacity and improve delivery of high-quality surgery to patients referred from General Practitioners, Triage services and other Secondary or Tertiary care providers.

At the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, the Consultant would join the Hands group within the Small Joints department. The current team comprises 4 colleagues.

The expectation would be that the post-holder would have a particular interest in Spasticity.

A flexible approach to working with colleagues and other members of the Multidisciplinary team is expected to ensure maximal efficiency within the department.

The department undertakes a comprehensive range of services currently offered within the unit are elective service including arthroscopy, replacements, carpal instability, brachial plexus and upper limb spasticity hip and knee surgical procedures with one surgeon also performing ankle, shoulder, and elbow replacement surgery.

Applications must be made via NHS Jobs:
Interested applicants are invited to visit on an informal basis by arrangement with:
Description of the Hand Departments

There are currently 17 Hand surgeons across the two trusts where the post is based.

Previously there were two surgeons solely at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, three surgeons who worked cross site and the remaining twelve work in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

At present, due to a temporary reconfiguration during the pandemic, all surgeons have elective footprints at the Royal Orthopaedic hospital.

Within the team, 10 consultants are of an Orthopaedic background and 7 are from a Plastic surgical background.

This post has been created due to the backlog of Hand elective work created by the pandemic and the reduction of hours to part time of one of the cross-site working orthopaedic hand surgeons.

The Hand surgeons that currently work and have an elective footprint at the Royal Orthopaedic hospital are:
Mr Mark Brewster, Mr Rajive Jose, Mr Mike Craigen and Professor Subodh Deshmukh.

The Spasticity surgeons that currently work and have an elective footprint at the Royal Orthopaedic hospital are:
Mr Ed Bache, Mr Andrew Gaffey

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist orthopaedic units in Europe. We offer planned orthopaedic surgery to people locally, nationally and internationally.

Our Trust is a very special hospital; big enough to deliver world class services and small enough to offer exceptional patient and staff experience.

We offer a working experience unique in the West Midlands and we're always on the lookout for passionate people to join our award-winning team.

The ROH is an equal opportunities employer.

We employ people of difference and are committed to growing an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated, and people feel able to bring their whole and authentic self to work.

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a range of inclusive, family friendly and flexible working arrangements and policies, to support our people in the workplace.

The Trust is committed to the Disability Confident Interview Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website.

The appointee will be expected to participate in all aspects of the Clinical Governance structure developed by the Trust to monitor, maintain and develop the quality and effectiveness of care.

The Trust are committed to the development of medical staff through individual appraisal.

This will include:
- audit of personal clinical practice as well as involvement in department/speciality reviews
- attention to continuing professional development and to meeting the requirements for Continuing Medical Education defined by the relevant Royal College (and for which appropriate study leave support will be available)
- awareness of professional standards and the responsibility to undertake safe and ethical clinical practice
- the importance of responding promptly to any circumstances which may result in increased clinical risk of adverse outcome.