Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery

at  Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Senior Fellow-level applicants are invited to apply to join the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department at St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals in the capacity of a Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery post from Feb or April 2025 for 6 or 12 months.
The successful candidates will join a young and vibrant department, with additional opportunities to conduct research, take part in leadership and audit programmes and help organisation of middle grade work. Many of our previous candidates have progressed on to consultant posts.
The fellowship is available from Feb 2025.
The elective centre at Charing Cross has been designated a regional Major Revision Centre and handles all the elective practice of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The fellowship will provide solid grounding in primary hip arthroplasty as well as exposure to complex revision surgery and post-traumatic reconstruction including peri-prosthetic fracture management, multi-stage revision and endo-prosthetic replacement.
The Major Trauma Centre at St Mary’s provides a huge opportunity to gain experience in the management of and surgery related to, high volume major trauma and polytrauma. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience in managing pelvic trauma in conjunction with the Pelvic & Acetabular Fellow based at the St Mary’s site. S/he will also be responsible for managing the six-weekly Elective Mass Hip clinic.
The post is across-site (SMH/CXH/HH) but the on-call commitment is off-site for Charing Cross Hospital with the other senior fellows (plus senior cover for St Mary’s if an ST3 is on call or in cases where emergency cover is required). Approximately every 5 months you will also have an SpR of the week on-call commitment at St Mary’s. The job banding is 1B with London allowance.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.
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Senior Fellow-level applicants are invited to apply to join the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department at St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals in the capacity of a Senior Fellow in Hip & Arthroplasty Surgery for 6 to 12 months. The successful Fellow will be based predominantly at Charing Cross Hospital and work with all the hip arthroplasty surgeons rather than be attached to one surgeon.
The elective centre at Charing Cross has been designated a regional Major Revision Centre and handles all the elective practice of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The fellowship will provide solid grounding in primary hip arthroplasty as well as exposure to complex revision surgery and post-traumatic reconstruction including peri-prosthetic fracture management, multi-stage revision and endo-prosthetic replacement.
The Major Trauma Centre at St Mary’s provides a huge opportunity to gain experience in the management of and surgery related to, high volume major trauma and polytrauma. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience in managing pelvic trauma in conjunction with the Pelvic & Acetabular Fellow based at the St Mary’s site.
The successful candidates will join a young and vibrant department, with additional opportunities to conduct research, take part in leadership and audit programmes and help organisation of middle grade work. Many of our previous candidates have progressed on to consultant posts

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