Job overview

Within the Trauma and Orthopaedic Department,  the post holder will be working as part of a team looking after a combination of trauma and elective patients, within a number of sub-specialties, including Hands, Shoulder & Elbow, Hip & Knee, and Foot & Ankle.

This is an opportunity to work at a registrar level doctor covering consultant firms and their elective practice coupled with the on-call duties of supervising junior doctors providing clinical care for patients and operating on trauma and elective admissions as necessary.

Chelsea and Westminster is a centre of excellence for Orthopaedic Sports Surgery. Several surgeons manage professional and semi-professional athletes which have unique problems and pressures.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will be scheduled for non-resident on calls duties on the middle tier rota, which are currently shared between 9 doctors, supervising ward rounds, attending sub-speciality clinics and will be exposed to complex, high volume theatre activity.

Ideally the candidate will be able to practise under distant supervision in clinic once comfortable so there is plenty of scope to grow into the roles.

The Department has established working links with Imperial College NHS Trust which is our Major Trauma Centre and our sister site West Middlesex university Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is an evolving, dynamic, growing unit in West London, with a proven teaching and training track record proven by GMC feedback and successive Orthopaedic Regional Trainer of the Year awards.

The successful candidate must hold full GMC registration, be proactive, eager to engage and be a part of the team.

Working for our organisation

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. 

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s,

in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for –

our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.  We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.