[ref. i11292722] Senior Clinical Fellow in Orthopaedic Knee Surgery - NHS
A Vacancy at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
The role will develop educational and experiential knowledge and skills in post CCT level knee surgery. They will have a comprehensive exposure to full spectrum of knee surgery including knee arthroplasty primary& revision, including uni-compartment replacement and robotics; osteotomy and arthroscopic and open soft tissue reconstructive knee surgery and sports surgery.Supervised ‘independent’ operating appropriate to competency will be available as well as exposure to teaching lists. Although no formally rotaed on call or trauma lists, there is likely to be some rotaed weekend ward round reviews with other fellows and may be opportunities to contribute to trauma lists especially for complex trauma for periprosthetic fracture work and revision.
This post will be principally clinic based at Ipswich and surgery at Colchester ESEOC with Mark Bowditch and Ryan Wood but working across both sites and have the opportunity to work with the other knee surgeons.
The post-holder will:- Work with colleagues to provide a service with the highest standard of care
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
- Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues in tertiary centres, community services and primary care
- Offer support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites – totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There’s a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children’s Unit.
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Duties will include:- Clinics and theatre sessions with consultants and some independent (supervised from distance) sessions
- Ward rounds in ESEOC
- Some shared rotaed ESEOC weekend lists/ward rounds but not formal out of hours on call
- Participation in informal and formal teaching
- There may be some opportunity to contribute to the on call trauma rota although this is not mandatory. There is an expectation to contribute to research projects
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Oct 2024