Locum Consultant - Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon

Job summary

We are looking for a Locum Consultant to provide a full Orthopaedic Hand service. This role is fixed term for 6 months and based at Frimley Park Hospital and Heatherwood Hospital.

Outpatient clinics are also held at a number of our satellite sites - Fleet Hospital, Farnham Hospital and Aldershot Centre for Health.

Main duties of the job

This post is a locum post for 6 months fixed term. At present funding is not in place for this to become a substantive post. The post will have a focus on hand and wrist elective clinics and operating.

The ability to work flexibly, cohesively and in collaboration with the existing consultants is a necessary requirement to the post.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full role requirements.

Some of the key elements of the role include:

• The basis of the post is 10 programmed activities; 8.5 PAs of Direct Clinical Care (DCC) and 1.5 PAs of Supporting Professional Activities (SPA). The post holder will be expected to see new patients as well as operating on patients from the waiting list.
• The post holder would be expected to work a flexible job plan to utilise existing clinic and theatre capacity. This would include weekend working.
• The post holder would attend regular clinical and radiology multidisciplinary meetings to facilitate patient care.
• The post holder would work in collaboration with the existing hand surgery consultants to improve the trusts RTT position.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• FRCS Orthopaedics or equivalent
• Full GMC registration

Desirable

• Fellowship of the British Orthopaedic Association and membership of an appropriate interest group

Experience

Essential

• A wide grounding during training of all aspects of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
• Fellowship training in hand & wrist surgery.
• Ability to teach clinical and operative skills
• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical and surgical problems
• Undertaken research with published papers in referred journals

Desirable

• Demonstrable Management experience

Skills

Essential

• Ability to organise and develop service provision
• Able to evaluate own clinical practice