Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Provide specialist elective Hand & Wrist orthopaedic care through outpatient clinics and operating theatre sessions.
• Assess, diagnose and manage patients with hand and wrist conditions.
• Participate in the specialist hand trauma rota, managing acute hand and wrist injuries.
• Support the wider trauma service and, when required, contribute to the general trauma rota.
• Work collaboratively with consultant colleagues and the multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

Service Development and Leadership

• Contribute to the provision and development of Trauma & Orthopaedic services across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
• Work with managers and clinical colleagues to improve efficiency and service performance.
• Support service improvement initiatives and help achieve agreed service objectives.
• Undertake administrative duties associated with patient care and service delivery.

Teaching and Training

• Participate in teaching and training of undergraduate medical students and junior doctors.
• Provide constructive feedback and support learning within the department.

Clinical Governance, Audit and Quality Improvement

• Participate in clinical audit, governance activities and quality improvement projects.
• Support incident reporting, evidence-based practice and implementation of clinical guidelines

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick upon Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Professor Mike Reed

Job title: Clinical Director, T&O

Email address: mike.reed@nhs.net

Miss Rebecca Morrell

Job title: Hand & Wrist Clinical Lead, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Email address: rebecca.morrell@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk