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Main area
Peripheral Nerve Injury
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (on call 1 week in 4)
Job ref
392-RNOH-818
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Stanmore
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£93,666 - £126,281 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/05/2024 23:59

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Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) has an exciting opportunity within the Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit to appoint one substantive full time (10 PAs) consultant surgeon. Preference will be given to candidates already working in a locum or substantive consultant position with a background in Trauma and Orthopaedics. Experience in micro, neuro and vascular surgery would be an advantage. The Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit at the RNOH was founded over 50 years ago and treats all aspects of surgical disorders of the peripheral nerve injury of the brachial and lumbo-sacral plexus including pain management and rehabilitation. The appointee would be expected to work closely with the three PNI surgeons and the multi-disciplinary team in the management of patients with peripheral nerve injury. The post is based predominantly at the Stanmore site, the successful candidate will be expected to undertake outpatient clinics at our Bolsover Street outpatient department in Central London. The candidate will participate in the on-call rota for the unit. All applicants for consultant posts must either be on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register. We are looking for an applicant who work well within a team and have relevant experience in the management of complex nerve anatomy. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in research, education and teaching. 

Main duties of the job

The appointment is for a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon for the Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit The appointee will:

The post-holder will be expected to be actively involved in the management of the department including attendance at the Business Unit, MDT and monthly meetings. They will be expected to take an active and engaged role in departmental and academic responsibilities as allocated by agreement across the department, including cover for colleagues’ annual leave and other authorised absences as appropriate

The successful applicant will engage fully and proactively in clinical governance activities, including clinical audit.

· The post-holder will be expected to engage in continuing professional development. · A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and their Clinical Director on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer prior to the commencement date of the appointment.

· The job plan shall be reviewed annually. It will cover all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities, including a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external.

It shall include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfill the job plan and the objectives.

The post-holder will participate in the PNI on-call rota, currently a 1 in 4 frequency

Working for our organisation

The PNI Unit provides a highly respected elective service which is fed by referrals from all over the UK, from the Military Services and from over-seas. The Unit, the largest of its kind in the UK, provides a world-class and comprehensive emergency service for acute nerve injury, Brachial plexus trauma, iatrogenic nerve injuries and in tumours of peripheral nerves and has the largest world experience in this field. It has acquired the largest UK experience in the treatment of surgical disorders of peripheral nerves and in the treatment of the Obstetric brachial plexus palsy.

This service is a Consultant led service receiving acute and non-acute referrals, with a large proportion coming from other NHS Trusts.

The successful applicant will take a full part in dealing with the case-load of the PNI Unit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit has three [3] Consultant Surgeons.

This job plan is a combination of set and flexible sessions in relation to SPA time, clinic and theatre sessions. This will depend on the availability of theatre sessions in the trust. As the Trust secures more capacity we will proceed to make the job plan fixed with regular commitments although a degree of flexibility is always needed.

Person specification

Trust Values:

Essential criteria
  • Understands and committed to Trust values: • Patients first always • Excellence in all we do • Trust, honesty and respect for each other • Equality for all

Education, qualification and training

Essential criteria
  • Basic medical qualifications - MBBS or equivalent Full GMC registration Entry on the GMC specialist register with CCT or equivalent (proposed CCT/CESR Evidence of undertaking research activities

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Competent in all aspects of skills appropriate to the role. Computer literacy/IT skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Ability to effectively supervise junior medical staff Track record of establishing and maintaining good working relationships with patients, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues. Experience in conflict management and able to motivate colleagues (medical and non-medical Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty Experience in upper limb fracture fixation Experience in microsurgery
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in effectively delivering training / teaching nursing and medical staff, Understanding of wellbeing ,Minimum of 6 month PNI experience Experience in vascular surgery and Neurosurgery

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mr Marco Sinisi
Job title
Clinical Director and Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8909 5803
Additional information

Contact via Mr Sinisi secretary Monday to Friday 08.00-16.00 

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