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TRAUMA AND ORTHOPAEDIC
Grade
Senior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (David Wall)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
197-LC5788-B
Employer
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
University Hospital Lewisham
Town
LONDON
Salary
拢61,825 Per annum plus London Weighting
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/03/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust logo

Senior Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedics

Senior Clinical Fellow

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.听We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary鈥檚 Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 鈥 the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable听over听staying comfortable; Listening听overalways knowing best; and Succeeding together听overachieving alone.听

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as 鈥済ood鈥 or 鈥渙utstanding鈥 in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King鈥檚 College London鈥檚 GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

This post is for a 6 months contract Trust Doctor (ST3 and above) in Trauma and Orthopaedics at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. At the end of the 6 months there is a possibility of 6 months extension after successful review. The post will be allocated to an orthopaedic consultant supporting the clinic, theatre and trauma. The post holder will be supporting the junior doctor team on a daily basis.

Main duties of the job

The Orthopaedic Department enjoys a close relationship with our surgical and medical colleagues; a听
particular feature are the dedicated Orthogeriatric beds on a Care of the Elderly Ward for orthopaedic听
emergency admissions managed by a Care of the Elderly Physician in conjunction with the听
Orthopaedic Team.
The department works closely with Rheumatology, the Pain Team and our PCT colleagues in听
developing new pathways to improve patient access into secondary care, e.g. Carpal Tunnels and听
Musculo-Skeletal pathways for Upper Limb, Lower Limb and Back Pain. Lewisham Hospital has been听
awarded the contract to provide a community based musculo skeletal interface service.听

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:听

  1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development听
  2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability听
  3. Improving the experience of staff with disability听
  4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development听
  5. Making equalities mainstream听

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The orthopaedic听
department looks after the weekly lower limb clinics as part of the MSK service.听
There are daily Day Case and In-patient theatre lists, fracture clinics and trauma lists. We compare听
very well with our peers on average length of stay for elective surgery and we continue to convert inpatient work into Day Case surgery and the Trust is currently 4th in England for Day Case Rates. Both听
the OPD and fracture clinics are conducted in a designated area and are very busy. There are two听
dedicated theatres with laminar flows for both in-patient and outpatient elective work and a third in听
which trauma surgery is undertaken.听
This post is important to the Trust to ensure the continuation of our excellent and busy Orthopaedic听
Service and support the 18-weeks target.
Elective patients are admitted to a dedicated Orthopaedic Ward in the Riverside Building, which has听
strict admission criteria. This has enabled the Trust to maximize our workload as our cancellation听
rates are very low whilst ensure that infection rates are minimised. An excellent ward and outpatient听
nursing team support the department

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered with GMC
  • Registered medical qualification
Desirable criteria
  • MRCS
  • Relevant postgraduate qualification
  • ALS/ ATLS provider

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience in Surgical specialties that should include at least 2 years Orthopaedic experience
  • Basic Orthopaedic surgical skills
  • Middle grade on call covering Orthopaedic emergencies
Desirable criteria
  • Work experience for 12 months in UK
  • Experience in specialties other than, but relevant to Orthopaedic Surgery

Clinical Audit

Essential criteria
  • Record of completed audit projects
Desirable criteria
  • An understanding of Clinical Governance and its application to patient care in surgical ward and Orthopaedics in A&E, outpatients

Teaching Experience

Essential criteria
  • Record of teaching experience Completion of teaching course

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential criteria
  • Record of management experience Evidence of management course

Research Experience

Desirable criteria
  • Record of completed research projects and presentations

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.NHS Rainbow badgePrince's Trust - Proud to support the Prince's trust - Youth can do it

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
David Wall
Job title
Associate General Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07979652546
Additional information

[email protected]