Senior Clinical Fellow

at  Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The Fellow will be part of the Trauma Firm. The Fellow will be involved predominantly in management of trauma patients and the provision of care for all Orthopaedic Trauma cases. All trauma subspecialties are available onsite including pelvic surgery, limb reconstruction, orthoplastics and complex periarticular fracture surgery. This post will have integrated teaching and research commitments. There will be opportunities to develop operative skills in percutaneous pelvic/acetabular fracture fixation surgery and in ‘Mini-max’ complex periarticular fracture fixation surgery.
The principal responsibilities of the Senior Clinical Fellow will be the day to day management of the Trauma /Hand Surgery Emergency surgical in-patients. The Senior clinical fellow covers the Trauma on-call with a SHO and FY1 from 8am to 8pm. They are the first on-call for the day whilst the consultant of the day is in Trauma Theatre.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
The trauma fellows will be able to rotate each between specialities (specifically a pelvic trauma, orthoplastics, and periarticular) and/or have the option of a complete ‘trauma-pod’ pan-specialty fellowship. Allocation to the subspecialties will be dependent on the educational requirement of all the trauma fellows.
The pelvis trauma fellow will be responsible for care of on average 100-120 pelvis/acetabular trauma cases operated on each year, along with communication to the 9 local district general hospitals who refer 140 non operative pelvis cases per year. Virtual complex fracture clinics are being created to provide a service to the re-patriated patients.
The Orthoplastics trauma fellow will be responsible for co-ordinating all patients with open fractures, approximately 140 per year, of which >45-50 patients require free flap surgery. There are regular Complex Fracture MDT’s and Bone Infection MDTs.
There are regular opportunities for parallel operating lists. The trauma fellow will have the opportunity to work alongside the limb reconstruction team, as an additional fellow on an ad hoc basis

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