Job overview

This is a fixed term 12 month post for a Trauma Fellow at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust with a view for October 2025 start. 

The Fellow will work predominantly with Mr. A McAndrew, lead trauma consultant and the current Director of Trauma. The successful candidate will have a wide exposure to high volume lower limb trauma in a Trauma Unit, including peri-articular fracture management.

As part of the Fellowship there will be exposure to ring fixators for acute trauma and deformity correction. It is envisaged that at the end of the Fellowship he/she will be capable of managing acute lower limb trauma with all treatment modalities and be competent in managing non-union and mal-union

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.

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties will include complex fracture clinics, general fracture clinics and  trauma operating lists.  There is time made availible for research and admin 

There will be an on-call emergency duty commitment attached to this post on a 24-hour partial shift rota with the other Specialist Registrars and Staff Grades.  There is a daily meeting at 7:45 am to discuss management of trauma admitted during the previous 24 hours.  The Trauma Fellow will be expected to take part in these and to contribute to the teaching of the junior staff.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Berkshire Hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1^st June 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.