Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 200-SNCT-712882-7396170-JT
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 10 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Orthopaedic Consultant- Trauma & Hip and Knee Specialist
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.
We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.
As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.
Job overview
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust would like to appoint a Consultant Orthopaedic to specialise in the delivery of trauma surgery and elective practice of hip and knee surgery.
The Trauma & Orthopaedic department leads on all poly-trauma cases ensuring that all trauma is managed appropriately. The orthopaedic ward has been converted into the ‘trauma unit’ where all trauma patients, excluding patients with a serious head injury, will be managed along with orthopaedic trauma and elective orthopaedic work. Trauma cases are currently overseen by the orthopaedic consultant of the week, with this consultant changing on a rotational basis. The consultant post will support the trauma teams. There will be the opportunity to gain significant experience working alongside a team of specialist surgeons. The Major Trauma Centre is led by the T & O department and works on a 7-day consultant of the week model. At the weekends there is partial double consultant cover.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to fulfil their clinical and managerial responsibilities as follows;
Elective Commitments and Clinical Duties
The post holder will be contracted for 10 programmed activities per week. 9 PA will be direct clinical commitment including major trauma on-call week (at present 1:20), out of hours on-call (at present 1:14), outpatients, MDT and operating lists.
1 PA is allocated for supporting activities including the completion of non-clinical administrative work, work needed for participation in national registries and other local administration.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
It is expected that the post holder will complete their supporting activity through attendance at the care group’s operational management meeting, the orthopaedic clinical governance meeting (including presenting on morbidity and mortality) and through teaching commitments. Where these activities are timetabled to occur at the same time as other programmed activities the post holder will ensure that appropriate and timely arrangements are made to enable their attendance.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration with GMC
- Postgraduate medical qualification -FRCS (T&O) or equivalent
- On UK Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCT / CESR
- ATLS or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Higher qualification e.g. PhD / MD / MSc
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to take full and independent clinical responsibility
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for UK CCST
- Fellowship trained in Trauma and hip or knee surgery
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a major trauma unit
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability and willingness to work in a multidisciplinary team
- Education: Demonstrable skills in Postgraduate and undergraduate teaching
- Audit & Research: proven track record of high-quality research, audit, presentations and peer reviewed publications
- Managerial: Working knowledge of the current NHS structure
- Quality improvement: evidence of an understanding of QI and active involvement in QI projects and improved outcomes as a result
Desirable criteria
- Managerial: evidence of understanding the principles of service development and business planning
- Research Publication
- Quality improvement: evidence of active involvement in QI projects and improved outcomes as a result
Attitudes
Essential criteria
- Commitments to and enthusiasm for the development of services at St George's Hospital and partner Trusts within the Network
- Commitment to own learning and development and evidence of participation in appraisal and reflective practice
- Evidence of commitment to the priorities and values of the trust and of an understanding of the Governance framework within the trust
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ross Coomber
- Job title
- Care Group Lead - Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 725 4153
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