Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Upper Limb Specialty Doctor in Trauma & Orthopaedics
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Applications Invited for Upper Limb Senior Specialty Doctor
Applications are invited for the post of an Upper Limb Senior Specialty Doctor (middle grade) for Trauma and Orthopaedics (T&O) department. This is not a registrar post. This is a senior position for independent upper limb surgery. Please DO NOT apply if you are not proficient in running elective upper limb clinics and theatres independently. This is initially a one-year fixed term post, but extendable thereafter for the right candidate.
We expect the candidate to be able to perform hand procedures (carpal tunnel, triggers, Dupuytren’s, Trapeziectomy etc) and also basic shoulder procedures including arthroscopy procedures (e.g. subacromial decompression, capsular release etc) independently.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently managing patient care in outpatient clinics, fracture clinics, virtual fracture clinics, triaging, and running elective upper limb and trauma theatres.
- Opportunities to teach and support more junior staff in the department.
- Making independent decisions in elective upper limb clinics, running elective upper limb theatres, and weekend general trauma lists (1:8).
- Consultant support and potential to do more complex elective upper limb cases jointly with consultants.
Main Duties
- Managing and treating T&O patients independently and under consultant supervision.
- Leading and supporting other junior doctors.
- Working as a part of a team and providing support to all staff within the team.
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The Orthopaedic Department has centralised all Trauma Services at Queens Hospital in Romford, with Inpatient Elective activity being undertaken at King Georges Hospital in Goodmayes, with hospital-provided transportation available between sites.
We are currently working with our external partners to ensure a streamlined pathway from referral to treatment, thus ensuring achievement of the 18-week RTT target.
We have a fully-fledged ‘virtual fracture clinic’ service since December 2019 to enable a more robust triage service and reducing the amount of unnecessary face-to-face appointments in fracture clinics, that patients are asked to attend following their A&E/UCC attendance. This is coupled with a more intuitive system of referring patients directly to the correct sub-specialty clinic for further treatment under the most relevant consultant.
About Us
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
- Benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one).
- Maternity services rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
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We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre, and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian, and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: James Wong
- Job title: Consultant T & O Surgeon and Clinical Lead
- Email address: James.Wong@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01708435000
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