Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
- Grade
- MN37
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Full Time)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-TDPB-008
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £41,750 - £64,288 per annum, plus London Weighting
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Junior Clinical Fellow in Trauma and Orthopaedics
MN37
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Job Description
Job title - Foundation Year 3 (FY3) Doctor / Junior Clinical Fellow (12 months from 6th August 2025)
Directorate/ department - Trauma
Division - Surgery and Cancer
Main site of activity ; Charing Cross Hospital and rotate to St Mary’s Hospital
Responsible to - Head of Specialty: Mr Christopher Jordan
Accountable to - Clinical Director: Ian Sinha
On call
(to include frequency and details of supplements)1B - 1in 10 full shift CXH , 1 in 9 full shift SMH.
Main duties of the job
The role involves working at the level of an ST1 or 2 trainee. This job is split between 6 months at Charing Cross hospital and 6 months at St Mary’s Hospital.
This primarily involves the care and assessment of trauma and elective patients, day-to-day care of inpatients, assisting in the operating theatres as well as routine and out of hours resident on call duties. There are also opportunities to participate in specialist theatre sessions and outpatient clinics, to improve experience in these areas. In addition, candidates can avail themselves of the opportunities to become involved with the work undertaken by the Academic Orthopaedic Department.
If the candidate is keen to be involved, there are opportunities to attend or even present at the monthly cross-site Journal Club Meetings and theatre equipment workshops.
This post carries an on-call banding currently graded at 1B.
In this post you will be a member of the surgical team responsible for the delivery of high quality assessment and care to our trauma and orthopaedic patients. You will work with a multidisciplinary team including consultants, junior doctors, nurses, therapists and other allied health professionals. You will work on the junior surgical rota which offers a resident on call service. The posts are well supervised by an experienced middle grade registrar and fellow tier as well as consultant orthopaedic surgeons.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are delighted to invite candidates to apply for these very successful FY3/Junior Clinical Fellow posts.
Trainees will rotate between the orthopaedic trauma unit at St Mary’s Hospital which is the regional trauma hub and the elective orthopaedic centre at Charing Cross Hospital.
The Trauma and Orthopaedic Directorate across the AHSC has 24 consultant surgeons, and an academic department with a chair, reader and senior lecturer. There are two fully staffed trauma services, and two elective services one of which offers paediatric and hand surgery, while the other focuses on adult reconstructive surgery.
These posts will offer opportunities to increase your orthopaedic and trauma experience and confidence. The department has a strong track record in developing junior doctors who then go on to obtain training numbers in core and higher surgical training. We offer opportunities for motivated junior doctors, internally and with our partner institutions, for research and postgraduate study.
Applicants must be registered with General Medical Council with a licence to practise and should be able to demonstrate satisfactory achievement of FY2 competencies by the time of commencement.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registration with license to practice
Desirable criteria
- MRCS
Language
Essential criteria
- Candidates are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements
Academic achievements
Desirable criteria
- Prior involvement in research at any level
Audit
Essential criteria
- Understanding of principles of clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Prior involvement in or completion of audit projects
Teaching & Training
Desirable criteria
- Exposure to teaching medical students and junior colleagues
Clinical skills
Essential criteria
- Appropriate to job description
Relevant experience in specialty/Sub specialty
Essential criteria
- Experience or aptitude for clinical activity appropriate to job description
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Mr Edward Matthews
- Job title
- Locum Consultant Orthopaedics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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