Orthogeriatric Specialty Doctor

We are recruiting for aOrthogeriatric Specialty Doctorwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff., We are looking to recruit a dynamic Specialty Doctor to work alongside our Orthogeriatric team in Trauma and Orthopaedics at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. The Orthogeriatric team provide comprehensive care for all hip fracture and NAFF patients.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

This post is fixed term for 12 Months with no oncall commitments.

We treat around 360 hip fracture patients per year, 40-50 other femoral fracture (distal and shaft) patients and 30-40 peri-prosthetic femur fracture patients. At any one time there are approximately 30-35 his and NAFF patients under our care.

We have accelerated hip pathway and aim to follow NICE guidelines, BPT and GIRFT pathways to continuously improve patient care. Our aim is to optimise achievement of best practice tariff providing high quality and safe care.

the Orthogeriatric team has one Consultant and four junior doctors. the team is supported by 14 Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons, 5 specialist trainees and 7 SAS doctors. Currently we have two full time qualifies trauma-coordinators.

We will actively support doctors progressing through the Portfolio pathway to get specialist registration and full time substantive orthogeriatric consultant.