About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Post-CCT fellow position, specialising in hip and knee arthroplasty., based at the Kent and Medway Orthopaedic Centre.
This post is aimed at a surgeon who is post or peri-CCT, has completed their Trauma & Orthopaedic training and has passed the FRCS (Tr & Orth) final examination. The candidate should be planning a career in Hip or Knee surgery with an interest in Arthroplasty. The successful applicant will work closely with two of the Lower Limb Arthroplasty Surgeons, will spend some time in theatre with the other Hip & Knee Surgeons and in time will also have the opportunity to perform independent operating lists once deemed competent and approved by their Clinical Supervisors. Parallel operating lists will allow for independent Fellow operating but with some level of supervision. The Fellow will attend Elective Hip & Knee Clinics, seeing new referrals and will also be participate in Specialty Trauma lists. The successful candidate will join the middle-grade rota covering general Orthopaedic trauma on a 1:18 rota.
To commence October 2027 and October 2028 for 12 Months.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of care to all patients for whom you have clinical responsibility. This includes any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
Undertake clinic activities as required by the specialty need.
About us
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust providing the full range of general hospital services, and some areas of specialist complex care, to a local population of approaching 800,000 living in the West Kent and East Sussex regions. We also provide specialist care to a much wider population. Both hospitals offer acute services via busy A&E departments with surgical services also based across two sites. These are supported by HDU and ITU facilities. Acute Orthopaedic admissions are cared for solely at the Pembury Hospital in Tunbridge Wells and supported by twin all day trauma lists. Elective Orthopaedics is split between sites. A ring-fenced single-theatre twelve-bedded Elective Orthopaedic unit is based on the Maidstone site.
This will be expanded in March 2024 by the addition of the state-of-the-art Kent & Medway Elective Orthopaedic Centre (KAMOC) with the addition of three new operating suites, day-case surgical facilities and a further 24 inpatient and short-stay beds. This new facility will allow us to greatly increase capacity for elective Orthopaedic services in the wider Kent & Medway area.
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As part of your induction, you will be required to attend face-to-face training sessions and/or complete e-learning modules relevant to your role. If you have previously worked for another NHS organisation before joining Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW), we can transfer eligible mandatory training records where appropriate, helping to avoid unnecessary duplication of learning.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
MBBS (or equivalent) Registered with GMC Possession or within 6 months of CCT FRCS (Orth) or equivalent
Desirable
Distinctions, scholarships, prizes Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc MD
Audit Essential
Understand the principles of audit
Desirable
Evidence of participation in audit projects
Skills Essential
Evidence of leadership Able to get on with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
Desirable
Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition To have undertaken a postgraduate communication skills course
Research Essential
An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable
Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation Publications in peer- reviewed journals
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Employer details Employer name Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Address Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Hospitals
Hermitage Lane
Maidstone
ME16 9QQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.mtw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)