Arthroplasty Fellow - Trauma & Orthopaedic Department
Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
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Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
This is a fixed term 12 month post for a Senior Arthroplasty Fellow at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
The successful applicant will support the current delivery of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Hip and Knee Service, as well as contributing to the development of this service, at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
The appointee will join the existing team to provide specialist care to this growing population of patients, and raise departmental profiles through teaching and education.
The aim of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Orthopaedic Department is to become a leader in the field of Orthopaedic management and the successful applicant must therefore have the pre-requisite procedural and leadership skills as well as team work, drive and ambition to succeed in achieving these goals.
Please note - February 2026 start – with option to potentially start 6 months early
February 2027 start
Main duties of the job
Clinical duties will include outpatient clinics, a formal ward round and three to four operating sessions. The fellow may participate in a fracture clinic a week and there will be time available for research.
There will be an on-call commitment attached to this post. There is a daily meeting at 7:45 am to discuss management of trauma admitted during the previous 24 hours. The candidate will be expected to take part in these and to contribute to the teaching of the junior staff.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Berkshire Hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1^st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority. The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 750,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The Trust is one of the largest general hospital Trusts in the country and is Reading’s biggest employer:
The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital. The hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities including Accident and Emergency, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Genitourinary Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Maxillo-Facial surgery, paediatrics (including a NICU), general medicine (including all major medical specialities including CCU, Renal Unit, ITU and gastroenterology), radiotherapy and oncology, and all the general surgical specialities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical duties will include outpatient clinics, a formal ward round and three to four operating sessions. There will be a job plan in place that will include Admin/Research sessions and fracture clinics.
There will be an on-call emergency duty commitment attached to this post on a 24-hour partial shift rota with the other Specialist Registrars and Staff Grades. There is a daily meeting at 7:45 am to discuss management of trauma admitted during the previous 24 hours.The candidate will be expected to take part in these and to contribute to the teaching of the junior staff.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
- MB, BS and MRCS or recognised equivalent
- MSc or equivalent
- Academic Excellence (prizes, merits, distinctions)
- FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria- Specialist Registrar level experience of lower limb arthroplasty surgery
Skills & Knowledge
Desirable criteria- Evidence of audit and research projects.
- Experience of teaching junior medical staff and medical students.
- Evidence of previous publications in peer reviewed journals.