Job summary
Applications are invited for the post of an Upper Limb Specialty Doctor for Trauma and Orthopaedics (T&O) department. This is an opportunity to join a busy, dynamic multidisciplinary team to help us improve the trauma and orthopaedics service that we provide to our population. This is initially a one-year fixed term post, but extendable thereafter for the right candidate. The successful candidate will be managing patient care in outpatient clinics, fracture clinics, virtual fracture clinics, triaging and assisting in elective and trauma theatres. There will also be opportunities to teach and support more junior staff in the department. The Specialty Doctor is a key role within T&O as they are responsible for fast tracking patients through their diagnosis, initiating investigations, and providing management & treatment plans for patients presenting with orthopaedic issues.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the applicant include managing and treating T&O patients under consultant supervision, leading and supporting other junior doctors. They will be expected to work as a part of a team and provide support to all staff within the team. The Orthopaedic Department has centralised all Trauma Services at Queens Hospital in Romford, with Inpatient Elective activity being undertaken at King Georges Hospital in Goodmayes, with hospital-provided transportation available between sites. We are currently working with our external partners to ensure a streamlined pathway from referral to treatment thus ensuring achievement of the 18-week RTT target. We have a fully-fledged 'virtual fracture clinic' service since December 2019 to enable a more robust triage service and reducing the amount of unnecessary face-to-face appointments in fracture clinics, that patients are asked to attend following their A&E/UCC attendance. This is coupled with a more intuitive system of referring patients directly to the correct sub-specialty clinic for further treatment under the most relevant consultant.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.
Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.
Patients across northeast London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will also triage T&O patients, and this improves the decision-making in clinic or for admission/further referral management. The postholder will participate in clinical governance programme including appraisal, audit and research projects leading to publications. They will have opportunity to get involved in quality improvement projects. The successful candidate will also participate in the on-call as part of the rotation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will also triage T&O patients, and this improves the decision-making in clinic or for admission/further referral management. The postholder will participate in clinical governance programme including appraisal, audit and research projects leading to publications. They will have opportunity to get involved in quality improvement projects. The successful candidate will also participate in the on-call as part of the rotation.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Independent elective upper limb clinics and theatres experience
- Independent trauma experience
- MBBS / MRCS or equivalent medical qualifications
- Eligible for full registration with GMC at time of appointment
- Shall have completed a minimum of 12 years medical work (either in continuous or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of six years should have been in T&O in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades
- Shall meet the criteria set out in the Specialist Grade Generic Capabilities Framework
- Minimum of 4 years postgraduate training in the UK (or equivalent EEA training)
- Should have in depth knowledge and experience in T&O upper limb services
Desirable
- Fellowship training in Upper limb (hand & wrist, elbow, and shoulder surgery)
- FRCS T&O or equivalent
- CCT T&O or equivalent
- Equivalent experience in T&O in other grades including overseas may be accepted.
- Higher degree
- Experience in Trauma Services & virtual fracture clinics
- Competency in investigation management
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Independent elective upper limb clinics and theatres experience
- Independent trauma experience
- MBBS / MRCS or equivalent medical qualifications
- Eligible for full registration with GMC at time of appointment
- Shall have completed a minimum of 12 years medical work (either in continuous or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of six years should have been in T&O in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades
- Shall meet the criteria set out in the Specialist Grade Generic Capabilities Framework
- Minimum of 4 years postgraduate training in the UK (or equivalent EEA training)
- Should have in depth knowledge and experience in T&O upper limb services
Desirable
- Fellowship training in Upper limb (hand & wrist, elbow, and shoulder surgery)
- FRCS T&O or equivalent
- CCT T&O or equivalent
- Equivalent experience in T&O in other grades including overseas may be accepted.
- Higher degree
- Experience in Trauma Services & virtual fracture clinics
- Competency in investigation management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
