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Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a consultant specialising in hip and knee arthroplasty to join our Trauma & Orthopaedic Team based at Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust.

This fixed term position has been created to cover an existing sabbatical, but is also intended for succession planning within the arthroplasty service. There is a growing demand across both hip and knee arthroplasty, both electively and through trauma. The successful applicant will form part of the fixed 1:10 on call consultant rota and deliver outpatient services both onsite and at outreach locations.

The successful applicant will join a team of 13 orthopaedic consultants and play an active part in the efficient day-to-day running of our busy unit, contributing to the ongoing development of the service.

Main duties of the job

As a fixed term position, we are seeking candidates who are prepared to work flexibly and will increase the skill mix within the service. Candidates will need to demonstrate evidence of specialist training in arthroplasty surgery which should include at least one fellowship, covering both elective and trauma services within the program.

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust is one of four partners delivering arthroplasty services at South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre and the post holder will have weekly sessions allocated to operate there within their job plan, in addition to providing a hip replacement service for our fracture neck of femurs at Kingston Hospital.

This is a full-time post and attracts 10 Programmed Activities per week, with the successful candidates being given the opportunity to discuss taking on further PA’s upon appointment.

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