Prof Josep Trueta - Orthopaedic Trauma Fellow

The Trauma Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital runs a 'consultant of the week' model of patient care delivery reflecting its major commitment to emergency work. For each 24 hour period there is a designated on-call team which is Consultant led. Fellows, Specialty Registrars and F2 doctors work shifts in a team structure. Following an x-ray conference and hand over ward round, the night team are off duty the following day. Two further consultants are committed to running the two daily operating sessions while a fourth consultant will run daily clinics or ward rounds. Trainees are committed to support these operating lists and clinics. There are specialist clinics for children's fractures, pelvic injuries, polytrauma/rehab and post trauma reconstruction.

• Full GMC registration and licence to practise
• Completion of recognised specialist training in Trauma and Orthopaedics or equivalent
• Completed AO Advanced Principles of Fracture management
• Hold FRCS (Tr & Orth) or equivalent
• 12 months experience in Registrar /resident level post in an MTC / level 1 trauma centre.
• The ability to run an unfiltered Major Trauma Take.
• The ability to plan complex surgical procedures with awareness of current evidence base.
• The ability to organise and plan a surgical list involving complex injures.
Desirable criteria
• MSc / PhD in related field.
• Experience and evidence of Audit, quality Improvement and Service Development
• Formal qualifications in teaching and education
• Teaching experience to both under and post-graduate level.
• Ability to identify research questions, design, execute and publish research projects in the field of orthopaedic trauma.
• Experience of delivering service development / quality improvement projects, Completion of basic surgical training
• Completed MBBS, MRCS or equivalent
• ATLS Provider, Essential criteria
• Core surgical training programme - or equivalent
• Ability to function at Registrar level
Desirable criteria
• Experience in Registrar level in Trauma and Orthopaedic, Team working
• Communication skills
• Organisation, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel. Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families., The Oxford Trauma Service, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Post-CCT applications are invited for the prestigious Oxford Trueta Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship program. We have positions available starting in February 2026 and August 2026. Candidates are asked to express a preference for a particular start date in their application form. https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/services/departments/general-surgery/trauma/trueta/ These 12-month posts are for post-CCT level candidates only who wish to specialise in Orthopaedic Trauma and intend to work in a major trauma or level one trauma centre. The successful candidates will be based at the Trauma Unit is the heart of the John Radcliffe Hospital Major Trauma Centre. Each of our two fellows spend 9.5 PAs per week in one of our two daily trauma lists and one outpatient clinic sessions per fortnight. An SPA session per week is also allocated for administration, development, research and audit. There is no requirement of out of hours duties., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.