Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon with a subspecialty trauma interest who is passionate about the delivery of care for our patients and who enjoys working with like-minded clinicians who share in this vision.

Whether you are looking for your first Consultant post or are an experienced Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultant, we have much to offer, with ample opportunity and encouragement to pursue research, improvement projects, teaching, and supervision.

The successful candidate will join 28 other Consultants, 1 Specialty Doctor, 1 Associate Specialist and 33 Resident Doctors andwill be responsible for the management of Trauma and Orthopaedic patients along our care pathways and will be part of a team managing acute trauma lists, trauma meetings, fracture clinics, and regular Multidisciplinary team meetings.

Main duties of the job

They will be required to contribute to a 1 in 16 on-call rota.

Full ranges of trauma and elective services are provided. The Orthopaedic surgeons work in close association with the Southampton University Hospital Trust which is our Major Trauma Centre. We accept patients from the Wessex Neurological Centre in Southampton, patients with severe neurological damage may be treated in The Wessex Spinal Injury Unit at Odstock Hospital, Salisbury which is also the location of the Regional Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit.

Virtual fracture clinics are held every day and face to face fracture clinics run Monday to Friday all day. These are preceded by a trauma round where cases admitted during the previous night requiring surgery are assessed and their management determined. The trauma list takes place in dedicated theatres every day with a second trauma list Monday to Friday. At present there are five further sub speciality trauma lists during the week on various days.

The department was successfully selected by NHS England to run the Major Revision Centre for the Southeast Region for knee revision patients. Fortnightly meetings take place for MDT discussions and the department also holds fortnightly complex arthroplasty combined clinics for assessment of patients who may require complex revision surgery or pose a particular difficulty for their primary joint replacement.

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.