Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon (Trauma Surgeon)

This is a new Substantive post and has been arisen due to a continual demand for Trauma services at North Middlesex University Hospital. It is also designed to help the expanding trauma in general. The successful candidate will join a team of 8 other Consultantsto provide their services for the Trust, and to ensure that the Junior Doctors are continually supported at the required level, and that their training needs are met.

An indicative job plan/timetable for this post with indicative Programmed Activities (PAs) is provided below, but this will normally be re-assessed after 3 months of appointment to ensure it meets the needs of the service.

The department has moved to 'trauma week' on-calls as recommended by the British Orthopaedic Association. This means that the 'on-call week' starts on a Monday afternoon with a handover meeting from the previous week's consultant. The consultant works alongside a middle grade and junior doctor who are also on the on-call rota. Every morning will start with a trauma meeting, followed by a 'grand ward round' including post-take patients. The PM Trauma session continues until 18:00 hrs. There is a different Consultant 'on-call' after 18:00 hrs until the next day 08:00 hrs. The Consultant weekend on-call start from 08:00 on Friday until 13:00 hrs on the following Monday.

The hospital provides a full range of elective and non-elective secondary care services, although it is highly emergency driven with a very busy A&E department (140,000 attendances per annum). The Trust also has Specialist Units in Haematology, HIV and sickle cell services. The Cancer Unit is part of the North London Cancer Network, which has four other centres at UCLH, The Royal Free, The Whittington and Barnet & Chase Farm hospitals. All of these services are a source of referrals to the Orthopaedic Department. We are supported by a full range of investigative services including an imaging department that boasts 3-Tesla MRI and 64-slice CT scanners. The environment in which we deliver care has dramatically changed over the past few years. Our hospital development, which opened in June 2010, houses emergency, surgical and adult inpatient care in a state of the art environment. The implementation of the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey (BEH) Clinical Strategy in 2013 has seen
over 80% of our clinical services provided out of facilities that are less than 7 years old.

· This post is committed to providing an Orthopaedic and Trauma service with sub-specialisation in Trauma mainly at the North Middlesex Hospital site.

· This post will be Full Time on the new Consultant contract.

· A specialist interest in managing Peri-prosthetic fractures.

· Participation in the Trauma On-call service. There is a Trauma Week system and the applicant will work 2 in 10 weeks (including the weekends). The weekend includes Friday, Saturday and Sunday (day and night). The applicant has no out of hours weekday on-call duties. The other 8 Consultants cover the remaining 8 weeks and week day out of hours on-call cover.

· Operative lists- Acute and planned Trauma theatres.

· Ward rounds during the on-call weeks

· Outpatient clinics, which include Fracture clinic and planned non-urgent trauma clinics.

· Active involvement in Trauma management, both Adult and Paediatric.

· Supervision and training of Middle Grades

· Participation in management duties within the Department and the Trust

· Active liaison with the Emergency Department and attendance at Local and Regional Trauma meetings

· Active participation and provision of leadership to the MDTs

· Provide senior clinician services as per job plan or as agreed within the Trust, and as required when on call.

· Work with Consultant colleagues and Nursing staff to ensure the efficient use of the Trust's resources and contribute actively to clinical governance in the Department and to the development of quality enhancement projects in the Unit.

· Show flexibility and undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within the allocated DCC sessions at the request of the clinical manager, as the need arises.

· Actively participate in the Unit's teaching Programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multi-professional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies.

· Actively participate in clinical guidelines development, audit and CPD.