Job overview

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon to enhance emergency and trauma care services for both children and adults. The Paediatric Orthopaedic unit serves both the local Tooting population and a wider tertiary group, working closely with neonatal, paediatric, and intensive care teams. It supports four network trusts—Croydon, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare, Ashford and St Peter's, and Kingston—through outreach clinics and collaboration with local teams, children’s centres, and special needs schools.

Surgical procedures are currently performed at St George’s, with plans to expand day surgery to network sites. Clinics include general paediatric orthopaedics, Spina Bifida (with neurosurgery and urology), neurodevelopmental orthopaedics, and complex spinal deformities. A skeletal dysplasia MDT involves paediatrics, genetics, radiology, endocrinology, and neonatology. The team also works closely with Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

The Trauma & Orthopaedic department leads poly-trauma cases and manages patients in a dedicated trauma unit. Trauma care is consultant-led on a rotational basis, with weekend double cover. The Major Trauma Centre operates a 7-day consultant model, offering valuable experience alongside specialist surgeons.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to fulfil their clinical and managerial responsibilities as follows;

 Elective Commitments and Clinical Duties

 The post holder will be contracted for 10 programmed activities per week. 9 PA will be direct clinical commitment including major trauma on-call week (at present 1:20), out of hours on-call (at present 1:14), outpatients, MDT and operating lists and related administrative activity including telephone clinics as required.

 1 PA is allocated for supporting activities including the completion of non-clinical administrative work, work needed for participation in national registries and other local administration.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). 

 After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.