Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Post-CCT fellow position, specialising in hip and knee arthroplasty., based at the Kent and Medway Orthopaedic Centre.

This post is aimed at a surgeon who is post or peri-CCT, has completed their Trauma & Orthopaedic training and has passed the FRCS (Tr & Orth) final examination. The candidate should be planning a career in Hip or Knee surgery with an interest in Arthroplasty. The successful applicant will work closely with two of the Lower Limb Arthroplasty Surgeons, will spend some time in theatre with the other Hip & Knee Surgeons and in time will also have the opportunity to perform independent operating lists once deemed competent and approved by their Clinical Supervisors. Parallel operating lists will allow for independent Fellow operating but with some level of supervision. The Fellow will attend Elective Hip & Knee Clinics, seeing new referrals and will also be participate in Specialty Trauma lists. The successful candidate will join the middle-grade rota covering general Orthopaedic trauma on a 1:18 rota.

To commence October 2027 and October 2028 for 12 Months. 

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of care to all patients for whom you have clinical responsibility.  This includes any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.

To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.

Undertake clinic activities as required by the specialty need.

Working for our organisation

Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust providing the full range of general hospital services, and some areas of specialist complex care, to a local population of approaching 800,000 living in the West Kent and East Sussex regions. We also provide specialist care to a much wider population. Both hospitals offer acute services via busy A&E departments with surgical services also based across two sites. These are supported by HDU and ITU facilities. Acute Orthopaedic admissions are cared for solely at the Pembury Hospital in Tunbridge Wells and supported by twin all day trauma lists. Elective Orthopaedics is split between sites. A ring-fenced single-theatre twelve-bedded Elective Orthopaedic unit is based on the Maidstone site.

This will be expanded in March 2024 by the addition of the state-of-the-art Kent & Medway Elective Orthopaedic Centre (KAMOC) with the addition of three new operating suites, day-case surgical facilities and a further 24 inpatient and short-stay beds. This new facility will allow us to greatly increase capacity for elective Orthopaedic services in the wider Kent & Medway area.