Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to undertaken established, well regarded Upper Limb Arthroplasty Fellowship.  Internationally renowned as a crucible of Orthopaedics, Liverpool was the home of the pioneers of orthopaedics and trauma surgery, Hugh Owen-Thomas, Robert Jones and Thomas Porter McMurray.  The successful candidate will join a team of Orthopaedic professionals who remain committed to that culture of innovation today.

The department has over 50 Consultant Surgeons covering the full range of Trauma & Orthopaedics, making it one of the largest UK centres. It is a tertiary referral centre for all sub-specialities except spinal services.  It is the Level One Major Trauma Centre for Cheshire, Merseyside and the Isle of Man. All the surgeons are passionate about what they do and keen to develop you and your knowledge

Main duties of the job

The post will be based predominantly at Broadgreen Hospital, our state-of-the-art elective centre and at Aintree University Hospital, our trauma site. Day to day work will be varied including ward work, outpatient clinics and theatre sessions. We encourage trainees to operate under supportive supervision to develop their surgical skills.

The Fellow will take an active part in the upper limb trauma workload and can expect to be exposed to a wide variety of upper limb trauma cases.

The Fellow will take part in the Upper Limb elective outpatient clinics run on a Tuesday at Broadgreen site and fracture clinic twice a week at Aintree site.

On-Call Duties

1:8 Weekend daytime working

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. 

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

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