Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Senior Fellow-level applicants are invited to apply to join the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department at St Mary's and Charing Cross Hospitals in the capacity of a Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery post from Feb or April 2025 for 6 or 12 months.

The successful candidates will join a young and vibrant department, with additional opportunities to conduct research, take part in leadership and audit programmes and help organisation of middle grade work. Many of our previous candidates have progressed on to consultant posts.

The fellowship is available from Feb 2025.

Main duties of the job

The elective centre at Charing Cross has been designated a regional Major Revision Centre and handles all the elective practice of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The fellowship will provide solid grounding in primary hip arthroplasty as well as exposure to complex revision surgery and post-traumatic reconstruction including peri-prosthetic fracture management, multi-stage revision and endo-prosthetic replacement.

The Major Trauma Centre at St Mary's provides a huge opportunity to gain experience in the management of and surgery related to, high volume major trauma and polytrauma. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience in managing pelvic trauma in conjunction with the Pelvic & Acetabular Fellow based at the St Mary's site. S/he will also be responsible for managing the six-weekly Elective Mass Hip clinic.

The post is across-site (SMH/CXH/HH) but the on-call commitment is off-site for Charing Cross Hospital with the other senior fellows (plus senior cover for St Mary's if an ST3 is on call or in cases where emergency cover is required). Approximately every 5 months you will also have an SpR of the week on-call commitment at St Mary's. The job banding is 1B with London allowance.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Senior Fellow-level applicants are invited to apply to join the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department at St Mary's and Charing Cross Hospitals in the capacity of a Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery for 6 to 12 months. The successful Fellow will be based predominantly at Charing Cross Hospital and work with all the hip arthroplasty surgeons rather than be attached to one surgeon.

The elective centre at Charing Cross has been designated a regional Major Revision Centre and handles all the elective practice of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The fellowship will provide solid grounding in primary hip arthroplasty as well as exposure to complex revision surgery and post-traumatic reconstruction including peri-prosthetic fracture management, multi-stage revision and endo-prosthetic replacement.

The Major Trauma Centre at St Mary's provides a huge opportunity to gain experience in the management of and surgery related to, high volume major trauma and polytrauma. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience in managing pelvic trauma in conjunction with the Pelvic & Acetabular Fellow based at the St Mary's site.

The successful candidates will join a young and vibrant department, with additional opportunities to conduct research, take part in leadership and audit programmes and help organisation of middle grade work. Many of our previous candidates have progressed on to consultant posts.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GMC registration with license to practice by commencement of the post

Desirable criteria

• FRS (or equivalent)

Language

Essential criteria

• Candidates are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements

Relevant Experience in Specialty/Sub Specialty

Essential criteria

• Experience or aptitude for clinical activity appropriate to job description

Academic Achievements including Research/Publications

Desirable criteria

• Prior involvement in research at any level

Audit

Essential criteria

• Understanding of principles of clinical audit

Desirable criteria

• Prior involvement in or completion of audit projects

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria

• Appropriate to job description

Teaching & Training

Desirable criteria

• Exposure to teaching medical students and junior colleagues

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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 and Person Specification (PDF, 712.5KB)
• Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Aspire to values (PDF, 132.8KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)