Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 5 months (August 2025 to February 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-MED4871
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £70,425 pa excl LZ
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Clinical Knee Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The Orthopaedic Surgery Department at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust offers general orthopaedic surgery including spinal surgery. The Department seeks applications for 1 Knee Fellowship commencing the 18th of August.
You will join a team of 21 Registrar/Senior Clinical Fellow grade trainees and 8 Senior House Officers/Trust Doctors.
The candidates will be expected to participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care. Also, you will be expected to take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training and contribute to the management of the clinical service and service development.
Main duties of the job
- To provide high quality orthopaedic services to the Trust patients including the development of the service.
- To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care, including theatres, clinics and wards.
- To participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
- To gain further experience and develop an expertise in the management of orthopaedic conditions, and Knee conditions in particular.
- To participate in on-call weekend rota for elective ward patients.
- To participate in a relevant research project and audits.
Working for our organisation
Guy's and St Thomas' is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, with a staff of over 11,000, a turnover of over £800m and a million patient contacts a year.
The Trust comprises two of London’s oldest and best known teaching hospitals. The hospitals have a long history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. Both hospitals have built on these traditions and continue to have a reputation for excellence and innovation.
We are part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. Our AHSC is one of only five in the UK. It consists of King’s College London, and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts. King’s Health Partners includes seven hospitals and over 150 community based services, is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000 employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.org
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
A range of specialised surgery is undertaken across both sites and the successful applicant will be encouraged to attend these sessions in order to develop a broad interest in all aspects of orthopaedic knee surgery and to further their medical training.
You will be expected to actively participate in the department’s audit and clinical governance activities with appraisal.
The post holder will, together with colleagues, be responsible for the provision of specialist orthopaedic services to the Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to include:
(a) Diagnosis and treatment of patients of the trust in such hospitals, health centres or clinics or other premises as required.
(b) Continuing clinical responsibility for the patients in your charge, allowing for all proper delegation to, and training of, your staff.
The post will be working over both Guys and St Thomas’ sites, although you will work predominantly at Guy’s.
It is a requirement of your employment that you be prepared to work at any additional or different location owned or served by the trust, on an on-going or temporary basis according to the demands of the service. This post currently involves on call work, including weekend and evening working, either within the basic working hours or via supplementary payment.
Training of junior staff:
The post holder will take responsibility for the training and direction of junior staff allocated to him/her under aegis of the training plan that that postholder has agreed with their supervising consultant.
Teaching:
The post holder will be expected to contribute as appropriate in the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Clinical Governance:
All medical and dental staff are expected to take part in clinical governance activity, including clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management. They will be expected to produce evidence of their contribution in these areas and their audit of their own clinical work as part of their appraisal.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training:
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration
- FRCS (Trauma and Orthopaedics)
- Post CCT
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree
Clinical Experience:
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical experience in orthopaedics and of the services provided at GSTT relating to this field (a validated logbook must be included with the application).
Desirable criteria
- Previous fellowship
Knowledge and Skills:
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to carry out routine primary replacement independently.
Desirable criteria
- Previous surgical experience.
Research
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of original research.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification.
- Evidence of participation in the development of clinical services.
Management:
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council.
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in clinical guideline development.
- Appraisal training.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Bliss
- Job title
- Orthopaedic Knee Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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