Job overview

This is a unique opportunity to apply for the post of Senior Orthopaedic Trauma Fellow at King’s College Hospital Major Trauma Centre

In October 2020, the trauma and orthopaedics service at Denmark Hill joined the service at the Princess Royal University Hospital site to create an integrated, cross-site centre of excellence in the treatment of Orthopaedics.

The Trauma & Orthopaedics department is one of the largest Orthopaedic departments in the region serving a population in excess of 700,000.  The department currently has 24 orthopaedic surgeons and in addition to providing elective and trauma services to its local population, the division offers a range of tertiary services.

King’s College Hospital is a Major Trauma Centre and is responsible for the South East London, Kent and Medway (SELKAM) Trauma Network.  As a Major Trauma Centre King’s is a specialist hospital that is able to care for the most severely injured patients, with consultants available 24-hours a day, 7-days a week with the necessary resources and skills to treat complex and sometimes multiple injuries.

Elective inpatient and some daycase work is carried out at Orpington Hospital at the Elective Orthopaedic Centre, almost all aspects of elective Orthopaedics are catered for here. The hospital site has three orthopaedic ultra clean theatres, along with a recovery area and two elective orthopaedic wards.

Main duties of the job

The Fellow will be part of the Trauma Firm. The Fellow will be involved predominantly in management of trauma patients and the provision of care for all Orthopaedic Trauma cases. All trauma subspecialties are available onsite including pelvic surgery, limb reconstruction, orthoplastics and complex periarticular fracture surgery. This post will have integrated teaching and research commitments. There will be opportunities to develop operative skills in percutaneous pelvic/acetabular fracture fixation surgery and in ‘Mini-max’ complex periarticular fracture fixation surgery.

The trauma fellows will be able to rotate each between specialities (specifically a pelvic trauma, orthoplastics, and periarticular) and/or have the option of a complete ‘trauma-pod’ pan-specialty fellowship. Allocation to the subspecialties will be dependent on the educational requirement of all the trauma fellows.

Working for our organisation

The budgetary and management structure of King’s is divided into Divisions. Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery is a cross site division and incorporates trauma and elective surgery both at The PRUH and Denmark Hill. The Division also has an elective facility based at Orpington hospital with four operating theatres, an admissions ward and a post operative ward facility.

Trauma and Orthopaedics represents its own Care Group in the hospital management structure. The Care Group is led by Clinical Director – Mr Abihnav Gulihar. The Clinical Director is supported by Clinical leads at the Denmark Hill site and Princess Royal sites, with separate Governance leads at each site. The Care Group General Manager is Ms Hannah Jackson and Cyril Noone is The Head Of Nursing.

The Trust director for major trauma services is Mr Malcolm Tunnicliffe. The regional Major Trauma Network also has its own Clinical Director and is organised via daily multi-disciplinary trauma clinical meetings and weekly review meetings.