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Job summary

Main area
Trauma & Orthopaedics
Grade
Specialty Registrar
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (With a view to extend to 12 months)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (+ Middle Grade On-Call Rota - 1/16)
Job ref
193-MS1209PCG
Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Town
Reading
Salary
£61,825 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/06/2025 14:00

Employer heading

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust logo

LAS - Specialty Registrar

Specialty Registrar

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements.  The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.  This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust.  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.”

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

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

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You will be working on a level equivalent to a Trust Speciality Registrar depending on your seniority and experience. You will be an integral part of a team and will be working for a consultant.

You will form part of the middle grade on call rota.

This post is initially for 6 months, with the view to extend. 

Main duties of the job

You will attend your consultants’ elective theatre lists and clinics. You will also be rostered for fracture clinics and regular trauma lists. Depending on your team allocation, you may be expected to travel between hospital sites to attend peripheral clinics at West Berkshire Community Hospital, Newbury, Bracknell Healthspace or Townlands Hospital, Henley

Working for our organisation

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. The Ophthalmic service has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for over 1,000,000 patients across Berkshire. The Trust is Reading’s biggest employer and may form the central hospital for one of the country’s new medical schools.

The Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, is situated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, with some clinics at West Berkshire Community Hospital, Bracknell Healthspace and Townlands Hospital.  The Department provides the Trauma Service for a catchment area with a population of 500,000. Accordingly, about half the work of the department is trauma surgery.

This Department has at present 97 beds for inpatients.  There is a ring fenced ward for elective orthopaedic surgery.

There are close links with the Department of Rheumatology and three consultant Orthogeriatricians. A PACS radiology system has been in place since 2002.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will attend your consultants’ elective theatre lists and clinics. You will also be rostered for fracture clinics and regular trauma lists. Depending on your team allocation, you may be expected to travel between hospital sites to attend peripheral clinics at West Berkshire Community Hospital, Newbury, Bracknell Healthspace or Townlands Hospital, Henley

Person specification

Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full registration with the GMC with a current licence to practice.
  • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
  • Expected to have gained MRCS

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Full registration with the GMC with a current licence to practiceCapacity to apply sound clinical knowledge & judgement & prioritise clinical need
  • Demonstrates appropriate technical competence & evidence of development of excellent diagnostic skills & judgementvalidated logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
Desirable criteria
  • Attendance at relevant courses, e.g., ATLS, Basic Surgical Skills, CCrISP or equivalent

Academic Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management & evidence-based practice
  • Understanding of research basic research principles, methodology & ethics, with potential to contribute to research
  • Evidence of contributing to teaching & learning of others
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of relevant academic & research achievements, e.g. degrees, prizes, awards, distinctions, publications, presentations, other achievements.
  • Evidence of active participation in audit
  • Evidence of participation in risk management and/or clinical/laboratory research

Eligibility

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of achievement of Foundation competences from a UKFPO affiliated Foundation Programme or equivalent by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/ Good Medical Practice
  • Evidence of achievement of CT/ST1 competences in this specialty by time of appointment
  • At least 12 months’ experience in Surgical Specialties (not including Foundation modules) by time of appointment
  • Must have worked in an NHS hospital for a minimum of 12 months at CT3 level or above.

Language Skills

Essential criteria
  • All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English.
  • Applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English or: have achieved the following scores in the academic international English Language Testing System (IELTS) in a single sitting within 24 months at time of application.
  • If applicants believe they have adequate communication skills but do not fit into one of these examples they must provide supporting evidence

Career Progression

Essential criteria
  • Ability to provide a complete employment history
  • Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances
  • Evidence that present achievement and performance is commensurate with totality of period of training

Probity

Essential criteria
  • Takes responsibility for own actions, demonstrates respect for the rights of all
  • Demonstrates awareness of ethical principles, safety, confidentiality & consent
  • Aware of importance of being the patients’ advocate, clinical governance & responsibilities of an NHS employee

Commitment to Specialty

Essential criteria
  • Shows realistic insight into surgery (& subspecialty if appropriate) and the demands of a surgical lifestyle
  • Demonstrates knowledge of training programme & commitment to own development
  • Shows critical & enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
  • Commitment to self-directed learning & reflective/analytical approach to Practice

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Stonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.National Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024Florence Nightingale Foundation

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Amr El Khouly
Job title
Paediatric Consultant - Trauma and Orthopaedics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0118 3227415
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