Speciality Doctor Trauma & Orthopaedics

Role: Speciality Doctor Trauma & Orthopaedics

Location: Hereford

Salary: £61,542 - £99,216 per annum

Contract Type: 6 months (Fixed Term 6 months)

Hours: Full time - 10.5 sessions per week (Fixed Contract period February 2026 - August 2026)

Closing Date: 22/12/ :00

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Job Overview

This is an opportunity to join a dynamic department of 13 consultants who sub-specialise in Upper limb, Lower limb and Foot and Ankle. Herefordshire is a beautiful county of rolling landscape and this job should provide you with a good work life balance. This is primarily a service job but you will be encouraged and supported to take the FRCS (T&O) exam should you wish.

Please note: Fixed Contract period August 2025 – February 2026 (Possibility of later start upon negotiation).

Main Duties of the Job

• You will participate fully in the out-patient, ward and theatre management of both elective and emergency admissions under the supervision of your named consultant.
• You will advise and supervise Junior Staff on clinical matters.
• You are second on-call. You will respond appropriately to referrals from your juniors and other departments. You are not on the Trauma Team.
• You will attend the Trauma Meeting most weekdays. Every day when on Trauma Week, on-call or the day after on-call. Seven days a week we start with a Trauma Meeting which is part business, part educational. All the admissions from the previous 24 hours are discussed.
• You will also perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances, at the request of the particular consultant, in consultation where practicable with your colleagues both senior and junior.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good time keeping
• Ability to organise workload coping with varied pressures of the role
• Initiative & Empathy

Desirable criteria

• Demonstration of leadership qualities

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Basic medical qualifications
• Full doctors registration with GMC License to practice
• MRCS (or equivalent)
• ALTS
• 6 months paid working experience as a Doctor in the NHS

Desirable criteria

• Completion of AO Principles of Fracture Fixation course
• Medical Statistics
• Recognised logbook demonstrating exposure to trauma, arthroplasty +/- arthroplasty

Training

Essential criteria

• At least 4 years full time post graduate training, at least 2 of which are:
• In an orthopaedics and trauma speciality training programme
• As a fixed term speciality trainee in T&O
• Shall have equivalent experience and competencies

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