Job overview

Wye Valley NHS Trust are looking to recruit a dynamic and enthusiastic consultant in orthopaedic lower limb arthroplasty surgery to provide delivery of a comprehensive trauma and orthopaedic service.

This is  an opportunity to join a dynamic department of 13 consultants who sub-specialise in Upper limb, Lower limb and Foot and Ankle.

 Herefordshire is a beautiful county of rolling landscape and this job should provide you with a good work life balance.

AAC Date proposed: 9th December 2025

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate is expected to work alongside the existing consultant body and wider multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality and comprehensive care in general orthopaedic trauma and specialist arthroplasty surgery. 

The post holder will be expected to:

• Actively participate in departmental meetings including: Clinical Governance, Business, Mortality and Morbidity, Radiology and daily Trauma meetings.
• Undertake general trauma 
• Run a general fracture clinic with a virtual fracture clinic component
• Provide specialist elective lower limb arthroplasty clinics and surgery
• Participate in the Consultant on-call rota
• Engage in annual appraisal and the re-validation process
• Provide teaching to undergraduate medical students, postgraduate resident doctors and allied health professionals
• Contribute to service development through participation in QIPs and audits

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.