Senior Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedics

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

This post is for a 6 months contract Trust Doctor (ST3 and above) in Trauma and Orthopaedics at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. At the end of the 6 months there is a possibility of 6 months extension after successful review. The post will be allocated to an orthopaedic consultant supporting the clinic, theatre and trauma. The post holder will be supporting the junior doctor team on a daily basis.

Main duties of the job

The Orthopaedic Department enjoys a close relationship with our surgical and medical colleagues; a
particular feature are the dedicated Orthogeriatric beds on a Care of the Elderly Ward for orthopaedic
emergency admissions managed by a Care of the Elderly Physician in conjunction with the
Orthopaedic Team.
The department works closely with Rheumatology, the Pain Team and our PCT colleagues in
developing new pathways to improve patient access into secondary care, e.g. Carpal Tunnels and
Musculo-Skeletal pathways for Upper Limb, Lower Limb and Back Pain. Lewisham Hospital has been
awarded the contract to provide a community based musculo skeletal interface service.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The orthopaedic
department looks after the weekly lower limb clinics as part of the MSK service.
There are daily Day Case and In-patient theatre lists, fracture clinics and trauma lists. We compare
very well with our peers on average length of stay for elective surgery and we continue to convert inpatient work into Day Case surgery and the Trust is currently 4th in England for Day Case Rates. Both
the OPD and fracture clinics are conducted in a designated area and are very busy. There are two
dedicated theatres with laminar flows for both in-patient and outpatient elective work and a third in
which trauma surgery is undertaken.
This post is important to the Trust to ensure the continuation of our excellent and busy Orthopaedic
Service and support the 18-weeks target.
Elective patients are admitted to a dedicated Orthopaedic Ward in the Riverside Building, which has
strict admission criteria. This has enabled the Trust to maximize our workload as our cancellation
rates are very low whilst ensure that infection rates are minimised. An excellent ward and outpatient
nursing team support the department

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered with GMC
• Registered medical qualification

Desirable criteria

• MRCS
• Relevant postgraduate qualification
• ALS/ ATLS provider

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in Surgical specialties that should include at least 2 years Orthopaedic experience
• Basic Orthopaedic surgical skills
• Middle grade on call covering Orthopaedic emergencies

Desirable criteria

• Work experience for 12 months in UK
• Experience in specialties other than, but relevant to Orthopaedic Surgery

Clinical Audit

Essential criteria

• Record of completed audit projects

Desirable criteria

• An understanding of Clinical Governance and its application to patient care in surgical ward and Orthopaedics in A&E, outpatients

Teaching Experience

Essential criteria

• Record of teaching experience Completion of teaching course

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential criteria

• Record of management experience Evidence of management course

Research Experience

Desirable criteria

• Record of completed research projects and presentations

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• Job Description (PDF, 1009.6KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)