Consultant Ortho Surgeon with an interest in Hands & Wrist Surgery

at  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

LTHTR provides a wide range of emergency and elective Orthopaedic Services, including tertiary services and is the Major Trauma Centre, Regional Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre and Neurosurgical centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria.
We are seeking a Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Wrist Surgeon to join the team on a permanent basis. You will join a thriving and fully integrated Orthopaedic Directorate comprising currently of 27 Consultants, with a vast amount of skill sets and experience.
The successful applicant would be expected to take part in developing and delivering the Orthopaedic Hand and Wrist service, at both the RPH and Chorley & SRDG Hospitals and will be part of the On Call rota for Major Trauma. Currently - 1:16 rota.
A minimum of 12 months experience in Hand and Wrist Surgery is required and the BSSH Hand Diploma qualification would be desirable.
You must be registered with the GMC on the Specialist Register for Trauma and Orthopaedics (or within 6 months of gaining entry onto) and willing to participate in Teaching and Clinical Governance Provision.
In patient and Day case elective Orthopaedic Surgery is currently provided at Chorley Hospital. Strong links already exist between the Orthopaedic Surgery and Plastic Surgery Directorates, specifically in relation to Hand Surgery and Trauma. We have an excellent Hand Therapy team who strongly support our provision of Hand and Wrist Surgery.
The post holder will participate in the existing General Trauma and Orthopaedic on call rota . As a Major Trauma Centre, Trauma Surgery at Royal Preston Hospital includes General and Major Trauma cases. Spinal Trauma is managed by the Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeons and Neurosurgeons.
Non-spinal Orthopaedic Surgeons are not on call for Spinal Surgery.
Due to the fortnightly departmental structure of fracture clinics, mutually cooperative arrangements are in place between Consultant colleagues to facilitate review of patients at one week time intervals, if required.
The base hospital will be Royal Preston Hospital.
This post is 10 PA’s and will have an elective and trauma component.
The successful candidate will be part of an established team, involved in MDT meetings. 1.5 SPA will be provided for revalidation; with job planning there will be opportunity to increase this SPA in line with local guidelines.
There will be appropriate administrative time within the job plan, equivalent to all consultants within the department.
On Call will be provided as a 1:16 cover, providing a ‘hot week’ model 1:8. Elective work will be split between outpatient clinics on both sites and theatres on the Chorley site. Elective work will be five days a week, with on-call commitments spanning seven days a week.
The job plan will be discussed and finalised with the candidate on appointment.
This post will have equitable working conditions to their established Consultant colleagues and will involve clinical sessions in Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital. The base hospital will be Royal Preston Hospital.
We aim to provide excellent care with compassion and believe that creating a positive working environment, where staff feel valued, supported and empowered, will enable us to achieve this aim for every patient, every time.
Our strategic aims define our long-term ambitions, and describe our core business, these are:
To expand and develop specialised and tertiary services
To deliver local services for Preston, Chorley and South Ribble
To enhance our workforce and our reputation through education, research and innovation
Our key delivery strategies set out our plans to help us work towards achieving our strategic aims, which are:
Quality
Workforce and Organisational Development
IT
Operational Effectiveness
Clinical services

Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:

• What we can offer
• Job Plan/On-call Requirements
• The Team

Please refer the Job description for details