Senior Trauma Fellow

Job summary

Applications are invited for the above post at the Queen's Medical Centre campus of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, for a 12 month fixed term position from October 2025. The successful applicant will work in the Orthopaedic Trauma unit at the Queen's Medical Centre Campus, which is the busiest Major Trauma Centre in the United Kingdom. Queens Medical Centre hosts the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre likely serves a population within the East Midlands region of England estimated to be around 4.8 million people.

Applicants are welcome to visit the department prior to application. Please contact Mr Taylor's secretary 0115 9249924 ext 82042 (T&O Consultant) or Mr Norrish's secretary (T&O Consultant and Junior Doctor Lead) on 0115 9249924 ext 84351.

Applications require full GMC registration and UK NHS experience

Main duties of the job

The post is designed to support the successful candidate to bridge the gap between higher surgical training and a substantive consultant appointment, with a significant trauma element. Daytime responsibilities include supporting trauma operating theatres, fracture clinics and on-call duties. The department offers all aspects of complex orthopaedic trauma surgery, including limb reconstruction, orthothoracic trauma surgery and pelvic and acetabular surgery.

Main Duties of this job:

• In-patient accountabilities require assessment and management of emergency referrals for injured patients from the Emergency Department along with other route of admission (from clinic or direct transfer) under the direction of responsible consultant
• Routine ward responsibilities, transfer and discharge summaries, and operating theatre duties are a key component of the Senior Trauma Fellow role
• Out-patient responsibilities will include orthopaedic fracture clinics
• Teaching medical and other students as required
• To undertake audit and other quality improvement projects to enhance the delivery of care
• To get involved in research leading to publication

About us

Successful candidates will join part of a highly motivated and ambitious multi-disciplinary team which includes medics, nursing staff, ACPs, Physician Associates and prescribing pharmacists. We strive to deliver the very best care for our patients, but we are also passionate about providing high quality training and support for our team and working in partnership with all health providers at NUH towards optimising patient outcomes.

NUH has a national and international reputation for high quality patient care and research, education and innovation. We have strong links to local universities. This allows for the provision of excellent training and education for students, as well as being a major research organisation.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including:

• Access to Staff Wellbeing programme including free 24 hour advice and emotional support service, financial advice service, staff physiotherapy and staff support networks
• On site day nursery
• Amazon parcel collection points
• Secure cycle facilities
• Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Cycle to work and travel passes

With more than 18,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.