Role Summary
Main duties of the job
The post will enable the successful applicant to develop their sub speciality elective interests to compliment the existing consultant staff.
The appointee will take equal responsibility with existing Consultants for the proper functioning of the clinical service, working with clinical and managerial colleagues towards achieving and maintaining region leading surgical waiting times and post-op length of stay. There will be a commitment to General Orthopaedic on-call as part of this post, which at present is 1 in 8. The appointee may be required to do some elective lists at a regional elective centre as part of the job plan.
About us
Royal Devon University Healthcare Foundation Trust includes North Devon District Hospital as its Northern Site and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital as its Eastern Site.
North Devon District Hospital provides a Trauma and Orthopaedic service to a population of approximately 175,000. We are an extremely agile department that has used our strengths to develop an enhanced recovery programme delivering the lowest length of stay figures for elective lower limb arthroplasty nationally. Our Fully ring-fenced Elective Recovery Funded ward has enabled us to maintain our elective productivity despite unprecedented pressures on acute services within the hospital.
North Devon District Hospital is one of 40 hospitals included in the Government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP) and was confirmed as a priority for investment in 2020. The ‘Our Future Hospital’ team is currently engaged in drawing up redevelopment plans for a new elective surgical unit that will enable to develop our elective orthopaedic services even further.
Job description and Personal Specification
Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.
About the Role
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 30 + 2 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 32 + 2 days plus bank holidays after 7 years in the grade.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, innovative, and progressive Consultant to join our Trauma and Orthopaedics Consultant team. The appointee will be based at North Devon District Hospital taking a place on a 1:8 general trauma rota and have a lower limb sub specialist interest that complements the department. Applications are welcomed from candidates with FRCS (or equivalent) who are on the GMC’s Specialist Register in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery or who will be within six months of obtaining their CCT at the time of interview. In addition, applicants should demonstrate within their application that they are full trained in the generality of Trauma and Orthopaedics, can manage an unselected general trauma take and have the relevant training and experience in their chosen lower limb sub speciality.
This job is a substantive post.
The provisional date for AAC interview: TBC
For an informal discussion and/or visits to the department, prospective candidates are encouraged to contact Mr Will Griffiths-Jones, Clinical Lead/Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Northern Devon Healthcare Trust, on 01271 322747 or 07880 602096.
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
