Arthroplasty Fellow - Reading, United Kingdom - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

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Reading, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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This is a fixed term 12 month post for a Senior Arthroplasty Fellow at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

The successful applicant will support the current delivery of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Hip and Knee Service, as well as contributing to the development of this service, at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

The appointee will join the existing team to provide specialist care to this growing population of patients, and raise departmental profiles through teaching and education.

The aim of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Orthopaedic Department is to become a leader in the field of Orthopaedic management and the successful applicant must therefore have the pre-requisite procedural and leadership skills as well as team work, drive and ambition to succeed in achieving these goals.

Clinical duties will include outpatient clinics, a formal ward round and three to four operating sessions. The fellow may participate in a fracture clinic a week and there will be time available for research.

The Royal Berkshire Hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1stJune 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority.

The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 750,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north.

The Trust is one of the largest general hospital Trusts in the country and is Reading's biggest employer:

The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital.

The hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities including Accident and Emergency, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Genitourinary Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Maxillo-Facial surgery, paediatrics (including a NICU), general medicine (including all major medical specialities including CCU, Renal Unit, ITU and gastroenterology), radiotherapy and oncology, and all the general surgical specialities.