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Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery (HIP)

Please Note: The application deadline for this vacancy has now passed.

Role Summary

Exeter Hip Unit

Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre

ROYAL DEVON UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

 

CONSULTANT IN TRAUMA AND ORTHOPAEDICS

SPECIALISING IN HIP SURGERY

 

CLOSING DATE:  21ST OCTOBER 2022

About the Role

We will work with you to help you be the best version of you at work.

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 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays. Our Medical workforce has separate arrangements.

You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, physiotherapy, 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

Applications are invited for a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a specialist interest in Hip surgery.  The applicant should be trained in general orthopaedics and traumatology and should have significant experience and fellowship training in hip arthroplasty surgery, and an interest in lower limb trauma.  In addition, it is expected that the successful candidate will have a strong academic background and will work to support the developing academic unit within PEOC. The successful applicant will be given the opportunity to develop their skills and interest in the field of hip arthroplasty surgery and will have the opportunity to lead the team’s responsibility for specialist hip trauma, and in innovate elective practice. The appointee will join a friendly, supportive team specialising in hip surgery.  

 

The Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre at the RDUHFT has a long history of orthopaedic innovation and excellence. It is an academic department with significant subspecialty expertise and it has strong links with the University of Exeter and its Medical School.

 

The Exeter Hip Team has an excellent reputation locally, nationally and internationally for the high standards of its clinical work, for teaching and for quality research. Results from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales consistently demonstrate that the Exeter Hip Unit is a positive outlier for revision rates and patient reported outcomes.  The Team manages a wide range of hip conditions including young adult hip problems, sports injuries, early and advanced osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, revision surgery and complex lower limb trauma and infection. The current team includes four consultants, one associate specialist, three senior fellows, one specialist registrar, one extended scope physiotherapist and one surgical care practitioner, three senior Hip Fellows and one Speciality Registrar

 

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Exeter) is a Teaching Hospital based in the historic cathedral city of Exeter in the heart of the South West of England.  As such it enjoys a wealth of sporting and cultural resources along with access to the many beaches of Devon and Cornwall and the open moorland of Exmoor and Dartmoor.  Situated as it is on the motorway network, Exeter enjoys excellent travel links with the rest of the United Kingdom, Exeter is two hours from London by train and has a major regional airport.

 

Informal enquiries would be welcomed by Mr Matthew Wilson, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, on (01392) 406132.

 

A job description and person specification can be obtained via our website or via NHS Jobs on www.jobs.nhs.uk. To apply, you must submit a completed application form which should be submitted online on NHS Jobs; you should also submit a copy of your full CV, by the closing date, by email to jade.auger1@nhs.net

 

We are committed to Equal Opportunity for all and encourage flexible working arrangements including job sharing. The Trust is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and so we welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. The Trust expects all staff to behave in a way which recognises and respects the diversity in line with the appropriate standards.

 

In submitting an application form you authorise the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority Transfer process, should you be appointed to the post.

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will contact previous employers to confirm employment history to cover a period of at least three years.

 

Benefits

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.

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.

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