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Job summary

Main area
Orthopaedics
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Contract
4 months (Fixed term: from April 2026 to Aug2026)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
190-STH-26-056
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northern General Hospital
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£73,992 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/05/2026 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Post CCT Shoulder and Elbow Fellow

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

The appointment is to commence 11 April 2026  for a period of 4 months. 

MRCS/FRCS (Ortho) or equivalent is essential.  The post does not award a National Training Number.  As this post is not recognised as a ‘training post’, full registration with the GMC with a licence to practise is required, and if the appointee does not hold right of residence in the UK sponsorship will be required. 

The duties of this post are equivalent to ST8 appropriate to an individual holding a Certificate of Completion of Training.

Main duties of the job


This post will provide the trainee with an opportunity to work in an active, well-recognised unit with a good record of presentations and publications.

The trainee will have a very busy and broad clinical workload with many tertiary referrals.  Procedures performed regularly range from complex primary and revision of elbow and shoulder arthroplasty, primary elbow and shoulder arthroplasty, arthroscopic stabilisation and rotator cuff surgery, revision cuff surgery with tendon transfers, chronic elbow instability and sports injuries.

Working for our organisation

These are the values that all staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are expected to demonstrate in all that they do.

Patients First – Ensure that the people we serve are at the heart of what we do

Respectful – Be kind, respectful, fair and value diversity

Ownership – Celebrate our successes, learn continuously and ensure we improve

Unity – Work in partnership with others

Deliver – Be efficient, effective and accountable for our actions

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the supporting job description and person specification which will outline the duties of the role including an indicative time table.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered (or eligible to be registered) with the GMC with a licence to practise
  • MBBS
  • MRCS & FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Desirable criteria
  • Distinctions, prizes, awards, scholarships. Higher degrees

Clinical experience

Essential criteria
  • Completed Basic Surgical Training in posts approved by the surgical Royal Colleges or approved overseas equivalent
  • Successfully completed and gained CCT (by date of commencement in post) on a Specialist Registrar training programme approved by the Royal College of Surgeons
  • Demonstrate an ability to progress in chosen specialty
  • NHS Experience (excluding clinical attachment)
Desirable criteria
  • Competence in pre-operative and post-operative management
  • Previous upper limb experience

Research

Essential criteria
  • Ability to critically assess published research and incorporate it into clinical practice where appropriate

Teaching and training

Essential criteria
  • Experience of teaching medical students and junior doctors
Desirable criteria
  • Higher teaching qualification

Continuous Professional Development

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of continuing professional development in the last 12 months

Personal attributes

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates behaviour consistent with PROUD values

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mr Simon Booker
Job title
Consultant-Orthopaedic Surgeon
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 271 4025
Additional information

Mr Amjid Ali

Clinical Director MSK/ Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Northern General Hospital

Herries Road

Sheffield

S5 7AU

Tel:        0114 271 4025

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Northern General Hospital
Sheffield
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