Senior Clinical Fellow in Trauma & Orthopaedics: Foot and Ankle

Duties will include delivering care for patients under the care of the Foot and Ankle Consultants and team,providing support to foundation and core training doctors, surgical scrub practitioner, allied F&Ahealth professionals and receiving support and training from Consultant staff. This post would besuitable for an individual who has passed the FRCS (Orth) exam, has at least 6 years experience atSPR level in Trauma and Orthopaedics including at least 12 months experience in the subspecialty offoot and ankle surgery. Candidates should be approaching or have recently achieved the CCT.Possession of full GMC registration is essential. The post will have a fixed-term tenure of 12 months., Duties of the PostThe post holder will be responsible for:Assisting consultants in the outpatient clinics (seeing a mixture of new and follow-up patients) andoperating theatres and after some training conducting parallel lists with the consultant.

Thetimetable will include the equivalent of approx.3 clinics and 3 operating lists per week. There will beopportunity for supervised and independent operating commensurate with skills.Assessment, care and treatment of patients presenting and referred to the subspecialty.Supervising the foundation doctors, core trainees (or junior fellows) and SpRs in the day-todaymanagement of Foot and Ankle Elective and emergency orthopaedic inpatients including amultidisciplinary diabetic service.A weekly session will be scheduled to review the extensive F&A database and help the researchnurse with evaluating patient outcomes and producing presentations and publications.Teaching and training staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate.Communication with on-take firms and GPs as appropriate and timely completion of dischargesummaries.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute Trust with 768 beds, which hosts the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (EOC) and provides a growing specialist orthopaedic service for the South West London and Surrey area. The EOC is the largest centre of its kind in the UK and is fast becoming recognised as a centre of excellence.
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